Social conservative Alveda King said
last week that it is impossible for “two people of the same-sex to
marry.”
The 64-year-old niece of civil rights
leader Martin Luther King, Jr. made her comments during a panel on
opposing marriage equality sponsored by the Family Research Council
(FRC).
“It’s impossible to marry two men
to each other or two women. It's just not possible,” King
said.
“The two cannot become one. It is
biologically impossible, scientifically impossible, emotionally
impossible, definitely spiritually impossible. You can actually hold
a gun, Heaven forbid, and say, ‘do this marriage,’ now he or she
may say, ‘okay,’ or they may say, ‘I won’t,’ but even if
they speak the words, it is not possible, it is impossible. We have
to be able to articulate that on all the levels we just said:
spiritual, physical, science.”
She explained to a “lesbian who is
living openly with a lady” that she only “thinks” she is
married since she “really can't be married.”