Jackases of the Christian Right (which is neither)

Crusading-crackpots show their true colors, again.

SPLCenter.org: One More Enemy:

A prominent member of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is under fire for publishing an essay in which he argues that Africans were fortunate to have been sold into slavery, and that the civil rights movement was 'irrational.'

'There is another way, or other ways, to look at the race issue in America,' writes Gerald Schoenewolf, a member of NARTH's Science Advisory Committee. 'Africa at the time of slavery was still primarily a jungle… . Life there was savage … and those brought to America, and other countries, were in many ways better off.' A prominent member of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is under fire for publishing an essay in which he argues that Africans were fortunate to have been sold into slavery, and that the civil rights movement was 'irrational.'

'There is another way, or other ways, to look at the race issue in America,' writes Gerald Schoenewolf, a member of NARTH's Science Advisory Committee. 'Africa at the time of slavery was still primarily a jungle… . Life there was savage … and those brought to America, and other countries, were in many ways better off.' "