Jeff Krehely, writing at the Center for American Progress, has an exposé on NOM associate Harry Jackson that is worth a close read. The title, Time to Stop the Lies, goes straight to the mark. Here’s a taste:
Yet the marriage bill is not without controversy, as a small but vocal group of religious organizations and leaders has risen up to oppose the law. Bishop Harry Jackson is driving the charge to defeat the council’s current marriage bill. Jackson leads the Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, as well as the High Impact Leadership Coalition, which is closely aligned with the most conservative elements of the Republican Party. For example, Jackson has lobbied to kill efforts to reform health care using odd logic to argue that health care reform will prevent wealthy people from being able to access coverage because low-income people will consume all of the nation’s health resources.
Bishop Harry Jackson’s bogus claims
Jackson frequently claims that D.C.’s lesbian and gay community is highly affluent, and therefore does not need full legal equality:
“Many of our gay people here are professionals in this city, disproportionately educated and they have all kind of opportunities to make more money than other folk. They’re living in these new condos that are being brought to the city…The so-called persecuted gay [rights] movement…is a handful of privileged people.”
That’s rich coming from a carpet-bagging charlatan whose mommy and daddy sent him to an exclusive private school.
A poser, not a man of the people
From the Washington Post’s cream-filled pastry published earlier this week (and covered here):
Harry was precocious, and he got himself admitted into Cincinnati Country Day School, where the elite sent their children. His parents scraped up the $2,500 a year in school costs. “And that was a lot of money then!” Jackson says. “My dad told me when he sent me there that he wasn’t going to be able to give me an inheritance. He said, ‘Your inheritance is going to Country Day.’”
He liked Country Day, the kid who didn’t look like every other kid. There were invitations to sleepovers at the pricey dwellings of classmates. “I was the black kid at Country Day who stayed in the houses of wealthy white people,” he says, matter of factly.
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After high school he entered Williams College — prestigious, mostly white, Massachusetts — in 1971 and majored in English lit. He again played football. He was a middle linebacker and he hit hard. Pro scouts glanced in his direction. He got a tryout with the New England Patriots.
Harry Jackson’s had a real tough life. That might explain why Jackson prefers the upscale suburbs of Maryland to the nitty-gritty reality of life in Washington DC, a city that has far more pressing problems than two dudes committing to each other for the rest of their lives.
Washington DC has an AIDS problem on par with Uganda. How does Bigot Harry Jackson deal with the fact that 3% of the city’s population is infected with HIV/AIDS? He sides with the Pope and condemns the use of condoms as a means of protection against the HIV virus.
Last seen, Bigot Harry Jackson was running around Washington DC, shopping for an activist judge who’d buy Jackson’s line of racist, classist, homophobic bull.
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