This is quite interesting. My read of the quotes below is, basically, that "intelligent design" includes gays. This is something I've said before, though not quite in that way. Basically, God doesn't make mistakes. But I love using the intelligent design framework to explain it - hey, maybe we can teach this in schools that include intelligent design? God made me gay and that's okay.
The Rev. James A. Forbes spoke with a joyous righteousness as a preached to a hall of black faces Sunday at a cathedral at the edge of Harlem, and the words he chose might have come straight from the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.
Discrimination, he said, has no place in this world, and he urged his audience to liberate themselves from the notion put forward by some that they are less favored by God.
"Your job is to get up every day and be grateful to God for your DNA," Forbes said. "It took an artist divine to make this design!"
What made his words stand out was that they were spoken to a roomful of gay and lesbian faithful, and the would-be oppressors he referred to during the spirited religious service weren't white segregationists, but the pastors of some black churches....
Other speakers included Manhattan Borough President and mayoral candidate C. Virginia Fields, who likened the treatment of homosexuals today to the discrimination she faced growing up black in the old South, and Arun Gandhi, a grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, who drew parallels to the repression once experienced by nonwhite citizens in South Africa.
