MLK Jr. Day Observances

MLK Observances This Year Include Gay-Positive Coretta Scott King For First Time

In March 2004, she told a university audience that same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue and denounced a proposed amendment to the Constitution ban it.

"Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union," she said in a speech at The Richard Stockton College in Pomona, New Jersey.

"A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages."

I posted a tribute to Coretta Scott King when she passed last year here.

If only they would take her words to heart as they did Martin Luther King Jr.

In Spokane, the MLK Day parade will begin at the Opera House at 10AM. There will be booths and activities at the Convention Center all day.