Dems stand by Bklyn pol after visit to anti-gay church
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BY KEVIN DUGGAN
They’re sticking with him!
Leaders of some self-described progressive
Democratic political clubs are
standing fi rm in their endorsements of
a Flatbush councilman’s bid for Public
Advocate, despite reports about
his recent campaign stop at a controversial
East Flatbush church known
for spreading anti-gay ideology, and
claiming that the pol lied about his
past donations to colleagues with documented
histories of homophobia.
Jumanne Williams (D–Flatbush),
who is gunning for the citywide seat
recently vacated by New York State Attorney
General Letitia James, on Jan.
26 campaigned at the Brooklyn Faith
Seventh-Day Adventist Church —
which described gay marriage as one
of many “disappointing social trends”
on its website, and shared a Facebook
Live video of a congregant quoting
scripture as saying, “You shall not lie
with a male as with a woman; it is an
abomination” — according to a recent
report by our sister publication Gay
City News.
But the local legislator is still committed
to fi ghting for the LGBTQ community,
and is unfairly being held to a
harsher standard than other pols with
homophobic pasts in part because of
the color of his skin, according to a
spokesman for one of the clubs sticking
by Williams despite the recent reports.
“Jumaane is being held to a different
standard. Hillary Clinton was
against gay marriage during her en-
tire career as a senator and yet she received
massive support from the LGBTQ
community,” said Allen Roskoff,
who reps the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic
Club, a self-described progressive,
LGBTQ group. “It seems to me
that people of lighter skin pigment
have received support when they’ve
been formally anti gay marriage.”
Still, Roskoff said Williams should
never have paid a visit to the church in
the fi rst place — or, at the very least, acknowledged
his support for the LGBTQ
community while speaking there.
“If someone’s going to go to a place
like that we think it’s vital that he
should have said that he disagrees on
marriage equality,” he said.
Leaders of another self-described
progressive club based in Brooklyn
expressed similar regrets about Williams’s
visit to the Church Avenue
house of worship, but also reiterated
their support, recognizing that part
of campaigning in a citywide race often
means interacting with communities
that don’t necessarily share all of a
given candidate’s views.
“I won’t lie, we’re disappointed.
However, we continue to believe that
Jumaane’s record on LGBTQ and abortion
rights speaks for itself,” said New
Kings Democrats spokeswoman Jes-
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