Anti-gay King daughter elected SCLC president

365gay reports:

The Rev. Bernice King has been chosen as the first woman to head the civil rights organization co-founded by her father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced her election as its eighth president Friday morning. Interim President Byron Clay called King and said she accepted the position....

In 2004, Bernice King helped lead a march against same-sex marriage in Atlanta. This action was in contrast to the advocacy of her mother, Coretta Scott King and her older sister Yolanda Denise King, both long-time outspoken supporters of gay rights.

“Bernice says herself that she knows deep within that her father did not march and did not take a bullet for same-sex marriage,” said MLK niece Alveda King to the Associated Press at the time. “I don’t believe that people should be penalized for their affections, but we need to be clear on the purpose of sexuality and marriage, that purpose being procreation.”

Dr. King, of course, cannot rebuke his daughter and niece, nor can his late widow and elder daughter. That leaves the rest of us.