Blacks will defeat gay marriage bill in Maryland

[Anonymous]

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Gosh, I guess the civil rights movement didn't have leaders. Let's pretend that churches don't have ministers, and cities don't have mayors. Let's pretend that there are no intellectuals studying black history or culture. Of course the first black president in America holds no influence over AA's in this country either. Black people in this country look up to no one.

And you don't think society has changed since the 1960s? No one is pretending that there aren't influential people within the culture. They're just not influential to the degree they were 40-50 years ago.

Does the feminist movement have a leader these days?

That's an age thing. They look larger than life to young people, but they were once ordinary ministers, students, actors, and politicians.

The black community has leaders. Unfortunately they are leading in the wrong direction on the issue of homosexuality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They'll turn out to Vote for Obama and also defeat Gay marriage. Love it.

"Although marriage wasn’t a factor for African Americans in Obama’s first campaign, it could be this time, said William Cabell, 49, of Upper Marlboro. Obama’s new stance “threw me for a curve. I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to support him now, because I don’t have the same belief.”

Cabell, a black Democrat, knows he will vote against same-sex marriage in Maryland’s referendum but can’t see casting another ballot for Obama.

“I’d love to be supportive to my president,” said Cabell, who works for the Montgomery County school system. “I have to be loyal to my God.”

The Rev. Nathaniel Thomas, pastor of Forestville New Redeemer Baptist Church and a leader of the campaign against Maryland’s new marriage law, said Obama’s statement “took the wind out of me. His family image has been great for our community, and now he has allowed another agenda to cloud the great, positive image he created of the black family.”

Wenona Price, however, plans to stick with Obama, even though she will vote against same-sex marriage in Maryland.

“There are a lot of things that people might do that I don’t agree with, but it doesn’t mean that we end our relationship,” said Price, 49, an entrepreneur in Clinton. “You have to look at his work in the past four years. I think his pluses outweigh his minuses.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/2012/05/09/gIQARtsJEU_story_1.html

Guys, guys! This thread was started by an obnoxious troll who either 1) hates gay marriage and Obama and really wants to stick it to liberals or 2) just pretends to hate both because he/she likes creating turmoil on DCUM.

Notice how this thread has become a big fight between people who apparently have left-liberal views who are arguing about whether black people are more homophobic than other racial and ethnic groups?

OP must be sitting there at his/her computer having a delightful time watching us all fight. Don't feed the troll.

[Anonymous]

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Gosh, I guess the civil rights movement didn't have leaders. Let's pretend that churches don't have ministers, and cities don't have mayors. Let's pretend that there are no intellectuals studying black history or culture. Of course the first black president in America holds no influence over AA's in this country either. Black people in this country look up to no one.

And you don't think society has changed since the 1960s? No one is pretending that there aren't influential people within the culture. They're just not influential to the degree they were 40-50 years ago.

Does the feminist movement have a leader these days?

That's an age thing. They look larger than life to young people, but they were once ordinary ministers, students, actors, and politicians.

The black community has leaders. Unfortunately they are leading in the wrong direction on the issue of homosexuality.

And you're generalizing without recognizing prominent black "leaders" who are in favor (or were in favor, before death) of gay marriage, like Julian Bond and Coretta Scott King.

And to young people, it's not that people like Sharpton and Jackson look larger than life- it's that they're irrelevant. They hold clout with older generations, but no, not with young people.

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And young people overwhelmingly support gay marriage. So it's only a matter of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And young people overwhelmingly support gay marriage. So it's only a matter of time.

Of course it's only a matter of time, just like with every other progress made in the way of civil rights.

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Anonymous wrote:"The community needs to be led"

How condescending.

Who leads you? Who is your leader?

Gosh, I guess the civil rights movement didn't have leaders. Let's pretend that churches don't have ministers, and cities don't have mayors. Let's pretend that there are no intellectuals studying black history or culture. Of course the first black president in America holds no influence over AA's in this country either. Black people in this country look up to no one.

So, who is your leader? You never answered the question. Who leads you. And, since you think you know so much, who do you think leads Black people. After all, according to you we need to be led because we are incapable of thinking for ourselves. I must admit, You have that slave master mentality going on pretty strong. Truly paternalistic. Poor nigras, they caint think for themselves, so someone must do it for them.

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Anonymous wrote:Would anyone agree that being gay is natures way of removing a defective gene (gay) out of evolution and therefore gays should be allowed to do anything they want except procreate?

Yes, I'm sure there are people who would agree.

But since gay people are created when a man and a woman reproduce, that kind of thinking is illogical.

I think that this is an interesting theory, maybe thers is a resessive gene that causes gayness, wouldn't it make sense for nature to take its course and evolve it out of the system of mankind?

[Anonymous]

There are reasonable theories that hypothesize that gay men contribute to the health of the tribe by being nurturing with other men's children, and are therefore favored by the evolution of the tribe.

DW also points out that they contribute to our welfare by pointing us to the best restaurants and by providing hair and makeup tips to help us attract fertile mates.