Controversy at Morehouse College over Emails About Gay Wedding

01 Oct 09 12:00 AM CDT

by: Matt Schafer
Source: The Southern Voice  

Morehouse College President Robert Franklin is promising to take "prompt and appropriate action" after two members of his staff forwarded an email of a stylish gay wedding ceremony and one made anti-gay comments.

	Morehouse President Robert Franklin

The email, sent to Southern Voice after making the rounds through Fulton County government, included the following lines from Sandra Bradley, an administrative assistant who works in Franklin’s office. The email includes more than a dozen pictures that show a lavish wedding ceremony between two unidentified black gay men earlier this month.

“I can’t believe this wedding. It’s 2 men. They don’t smile in a lot of pictures and they look like a few brothers I’ve seen in the streets looking STRAGHT. Black women can’t get a break, either our men want another man, a white woman (or other nationality that’s light with straight hair), they are locked up in jail or have a “use to be” fatal disease. I’m beginning to believe Eve was a black woman and we Black women are paying for all the world’s sins through her actions (eating the apple)," Bradley wrote.

Bradley appears to have received the email from a coworker at Morehouse, both of whom used their work email addresses.

Vanessa Crites, who does not work at Morehouse, received the email from her partner, who works for Fulton County, and said she was shocked by the comments

Read more here: The Southern Voice