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Tuesday's Washington Post article examining the response by African-American voters to President Barack Obama's new Defense of Marriage Act policy reveals what many in the black community already know: When it comes to the ballot box, marriage equality is mostly a nonissue. In interviews with black pastors, pollsters, churchgoers and professors, African-American voters explain that economic and social-justice platforms are of far greater concern than LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issues....
The answer remains murky. Already, white LGBT activists such as David Mixner are sending not-so-subtle signals that race will matter in Maryland. "Our national organizations must immediately line up the unshakable and unmistakable support of President Obama. Voters love him in this state especially in vote-rich Prince George's County and Baltimore," he writes in a Feb. 28 blog posting. With PGC nearly 63 percent African American, Mixner's message could not be clearer — even if he wimps out on the clarifying.
The Root: The Misjudged Black Vote On Gay Marriage : NPR
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what many in the black community already know: When it comes to the ballot box, marriage equality is mostly a nonissue.
Huh? Post-election polls in California showed that, by a wide margin, African American voters turned out to uphold traditional marriage in the Proposition 8 debacle. This is not surprising, since many are evangelical Christians.
I don't believe evangelicals, regardless of race or their view of Obama, will support equality of marriage.
Randy from Maine.
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