"Holy sh!t, dagud, were in the world did you come up with that gem!?"
Sorry GTO, but I thought you were aware of balcks views on gays and gay marriages however I understand this is something the Dem party doesn't want to talk about and you will not see it mentioned in your party's talking points. Try Googling it. Here are just a couple of things I found from two separate NPR postings on their web site which I would assume is a site you would trust.
But an increasingly nasty lawsuit against the DNC, brought by Donald Hitchcock after he was fired as the party’s gay and lesbian outreach director, has exposed the rift between gays and one of the party’s most important constituencies, African Americans.
Dr. FRANKLIN: Precisely. I certainly saw, during the last presidential election emails from friends of mine, black clergy who are otherwise thoughtful and judicious and evenhanded people, sort of turned up the rhetoric against picking out the gay community and then picking on them. And I thought that was unusual. It didn't represent what I understand to be the law of love that Jesus calls us to. And so, I think that the black church community, ultimately should declare a moratorium, now, on gay-bashing and mean-spirited rhetoric or aligning ourselves with people who employ mean-spirited rhetoric, and have our own conversation. And bring in biblical scholars and Christian psychiatrists and social workers, and have a real conversation - a village-wide conversation - about the future of black marriages, families, and how we embrace and show love and discipline toward all members of our community, especially so-called non-conformists.
Remember California's Prop 8 that passed in 2008 and stated "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." According to the L.A. Times exit polls two thirds of Californians that described themselves as Christians voted for Prop. 8 while 70% of blacks voted for it.
