WILLIAMS IS NO SISSYMAN; HE FIGHTS FOR GAY RIGHTS

Mayor Tony Williams has stepped into the fray and lashed out against some biggoted and mean-spirited remarks made by a local preacher, said WTOP and the WaPo.

Among other unbelievable things, Bishop Alfred A. Owens Jr. of Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church on Rhode Island Avenue NE in a sermon titled Fan or Follower! preached the gospel that states "real men" in the eyes of Lord Jesus are heterosexual. Owens has this to say in the WaPo today.

The mayor said he was "shocked, sad and disappointed" with Bishop Owens. "I really have to condemn remarks like that whenever they are made against any group on the basis of sexual orientation, race, class, ethnicity or anything else," Williams said.