We reported recently that the DNC’s new faith outreach director, Rev. Derrick Harkins, had signed a pledge in favor of same-sex marriage in 2009, only to state his adamant opposition to marriage equality earlier this year (when asked by Sarah Posner if he favored same-sex marriage, he responded “no no no.”)

It seems that rather than get back to those of us reporting on this, and back to the gay community itself, and explain what’s going on, the DNC decided to clarify things to Billy Graham’s magazine. (That should tell you something.) They explained to Billy Graham’s magazine that Harkins’s name on the pro- marriage equality statement was a mistake, he supposedly never put his name on it.

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Well, someone at the DNC didn’t do their due diligence. The new Democratic party faith outreach director, Dr. Derrick Harkins of Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Washington, DC, recently told an interviewer “no no no” when asked about his views on gay marriage. Some folks were pretty upset that the Democrats would hire someone who doesn’t support our full and equal status as human beings.

But then a funny thing happened. A pro- marriage equality pledge surfaced from two years ago in which the same Dr. Derrick Harkins averred his full throated support for gay marriage.

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