''Why do they get to appeal to blacks as if blacks are their property and I can't go to that same group?''

More nonsense from Harry Jackson. Jackson, who regularly confuses gay marriage with racial issues, and who claimed that a belief in Jesus leads to conservativism, has reportedly boasted that he voted for George W. Bush in the past and John McCain in this past election. In stark contrast, 95% of District of Columbia's residents voted for Barack Obama, so it's rather curious that Jackson, a preacher from Beltsville, Maryland, has anointed himself as the righteous speaker for the interests of all of Washington's black residents. (Washington Examiner)

''Marriage is a religious act. From the dawn of time, it's been between a man and a woman.''

Ralph Chittams, an African-American Baptist minister from Hillcrest, who insists there is no comparison between race-based prejudice and the religious-based prejudice that he promotes against gay and lesbian couples who are seeking marriage. (Washington Examiner)

''There is a feeling that white activists from out of town, that they're sort of the setting the agenda. It's an arguable point. But I think it's too early to say, 'Black D.C. thinks this or black D.C. thinks that.'''

Sean Bugg, co-publisher of Metro Weekly speaking with the Washington Examiner on the perceived, and too often promoted, divide between the interests of the black community and the gay community. (Washington Examiner)

A Jewish rabbi joins Hispanic preachers at an anti-gay marriage rally in New York this past weekend to call marriage-seeking gays incestuous "perverts" who are an offense to God and want to make NYC "Soddom on the Hudson":