Despite the controversy that gay marriage evokes with some of the Black community, “The Soul Man” on TV Land, which features Cedric The Entertainer as an R&B artist turned pastor, decided to give the very newsworthy issue a comic touch.
On tonight’s episode, “Bride and Prejudice,” airing at 11 p.m., Rev. Boyce “The Voice” Ballentine must decide if he should risk his congregation’s ire by allowing a lesbian couple to be married in the church.
“Of course it was a big issue this year, so we decided to go ahead and pick that up,” Cedric told the Tom Joyner Morning Show. “We just wanted to go ahead and attack it [from the point of view of] someone who’d been in the church, been there all their life and then decided she wanted to bring it back home.
Watch It: “The Soul Man” Takes on Gay Marriage was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
