Balck womens opinion about gay marriage

In a Public Discourse essay last year, “Shut Up, Bigot!”: The Intolerance of Tolerance, I addressed how defenders of marriage are often called bigots for holding the view that marriage is, by nature, the union of one guy and one woman, exclusively and for life. I objected to this censoring and bullying, explaining that those calling traditionalists “bigots” held a false postmodern conception of tolerance that confuses intolerance of ideas with intolerance of persons. Here I address the central objection that I have encountered to my argument.

Denying Gay People the Civil Right to Marriage?

The most common objection is that traditionalists are using “tolerance” as a cover for their discriminating and harmful views. The objection goes something like this:

Discriminating against homosexuals by not allowing them to bond is as evil as racism and segregation, the banning of interracial marriage, or denying women’s rights. You wouldn’t be tolerant of these abhorrent things would you? America has become enlightened to LGBT rights, and you are simply using religious rhetoric to cloak your animus and bigotry

Same-Sex Marriage and The African American Community

Rep. JOHN LEWIS (Democrat, Georgia): When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn’t become a registered voter until I moved to Tennessee, to Nashville as a student.

GROSS: Why was it impossible?

Rep. LEWIS: Shadowy men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My control mother, my hold father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test. And many people were so intimidated, so afraid that they will lose their jobs, they will be evicted from the farms, and they just – they almost gave up.

GROSS: Your parents were sharecroppers. Now…

Rep. LEWIS: My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers. They had been tenant farmers like so many people in the South. They knew the stories that had occurred. They knew places in Alabama where people were evicted from their farm, from the plantation. They read about, they heard about incidents in Tennessee where people were evicted from the farms and plantations endorse in 1956, in 1957 in Wes

Girls More Likely Than Boys to Accept of Gay Marriage

Teens approve of marriages between people of different races, ethnicities, and religions, according to a recent Gallup Youth Survey*, but are considerably less approving when it comes to the subject of gay marriages. Less than half of teens said they approve of marriage between homosexuals. But there are some interesting differences here, the most extraordinary being that girls are almost twice as likely as boys to sustain gay marriage.

Girls More Accepting Than Boys Are

Large majorities of teens said they approve of marriages between Hispanics and non-Hispanics, between Jews and non-Jews, and between blacks and whites. While almost 9 in 10 teenagers overall permit of marriage between blacks and whites, support is slightly higher among childish women than it is among new men: 91% of girls approve of marriage between blacks and whites, compared to 82% of boys who accept. There are no significant gender differences in teenage attitudes toward marriage between Jews and non-Jews or Hispanics and non-Hispanics.

Marriage between homosexuals, however, is an issue that elicits remarkably different views between young men and w

Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black?

by Kenyon Farrow

I was in Atlanta on business when I saw the Sunday, Feb. 29th edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution that featured as its cover story the issue of gay marriage. Georgia is one of the states prepared to include some additional language to its state constitution that bans same sex marriages (though the state already defines marriage between a man and a miss, so the legislation is completely symbolic as it is political). What struck me about the front page story was the fact that all of the average Atlanta citizens whom were pictured that opposed gay marriages were black people. This is not to single out the Atlanta Journal Constitution, as I have noticed in all of the recent coverage and hubbub over gay marriage that the media has been real crucial in playing up the racial politics of the debate. For example, the people who are in San Francisco getting married are almost exclusively white whereas many of the people who are shown opposing it are black. And it is more black people than typically shown in the evening news (not in handcuffs). This leaves me with several questions: Is gay marriage a black/white issue? Are the Gay Commun