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Did Black voters propel California’s gay marriage ban to victory? Many angry opponents of that ban — a ballot measure known as “Proposition 8″ — seem to think so.

Just check out this comment left by a white, gay reader of TheRoot.com, in response to Jack White’s article thanking white voters for their help in electing Barack Obama:

“You’re welcome. I hope one day to be able to thank black voters (as a demographic block, I mean) for enabling me to get married to someone of my own sex. Or at least to have the key rights that come with marriage–for example, having the right to visit a lifelong partner in the hospital if he or she were deathly ill. I hope that the blacks who turned out in record numbers in California to vote for Obama but who helped get Proposition 8 passed will rethink that latter decision, and the elements of their faith that led them to make it.”

But Shanikka at MyLeftWIng.com is not having it:

“[I will] try and put to rest, once and for all, this virulently racist idea that Black people are to blame for the passage of Proposition 8 here in California.  It is an idea grounded in utter myth, a complete lack of knowledge about anything related to Black people’s presence in California, and just plain old scapegoating.”

Read her scathing, incredibly researched full post here, and leave your comments at NewsOne.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/IamYourGod/ IamYourGod

    The Gays already have domestic partnership rights, why do they have to have legal marriage? Legal marriage has a religiously moral counterpart that says “The bed is undefiled in marriage”. The Gays want a legal and religiously moral right to sodomy and other sexual perversion to be declared by the State. Gays want an undefiled bed of male on male sodomy and I’m not for it. Traditional marriage between a male and a female is the only marriage.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DreadyParamour/ DreadyParamour

    Oh so true… let’s hope they all read this one (your comment that is).

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Freddy324/ Freddy324

    I will NEVER accept same sex marriage becuase its an Abomination against any form of god ! It is not a natural act for da same sex to have a physical relationship let alone be married on ANY HOLY GROUND ! This issue is not about race ! Its About Respecting Gods wish to have a MAN AND WOMAN MARRY IN HIS HOUSE ! AND NO ONE WILL SWAY MY OPNION EVER ! ! !

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JBOOGIE1970/ JBOOGIE1970

    I am a black man and one that loves my neighbor, but I don’t have to accept or believe in what my neighbor believes in. Same sex marriage, no I will never accept it. Plus I didn’t vote for anyone that will accept it, so this person is not talking about all of us. If I stand with God, no man will I fear or accept who is against God.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ONEONECA/ ONEONECA

    Gay marriage and the fight for black civil rights are two different things. And I dislike the fact that the gay community is trying to make them out to be the same struggle. This is your fight so fight it. It does not equal to more than two-hundred years of oppression

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/fivestar7/ fivestar7

    all fish must me be drown, or break the aquarium

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/corneilusgreen/ corneilusgreen

    The gay community are a bunch of haters. They have total disrespect for the bible. God will judge them tho. Gays have never been lynched, chased by dogs, water hosed, and basically were not allowed to vote. Gays u gon down. God’s gonna have the last say. Thank u God for Maine

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dr_Information/ Dr_Information

    Pleas! Let me say this, The way the human race reproduces is with ONE MAN and ONE WOMAN. There is no debate here. It’s been this way since the creation of man. Today, special interest groups woke up one day and decided to tell God that he was wrong by creating One Man and One Woman to populate the earth. Special interest groups have no respect for God’s creation. The homosexuals (Homosexual= a person who desires,craves and lusts to have sex with another person of the same sex) mission is to obey Satan and stop the marriage of a man and female and fill this planet with odd-spirited,demonic homosexual slaves to do the devil’s bidding because Satan hates mankind. The homosexuals know the Holy Bible but they trick the people who are in power to create laws that will be in favor of homosexual behavior. If you are a famous person, it’s just means that you are just a famous gay,perverted person with a demonic spirit God hates and will judge you for it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dr_Information/ Dr_Information

    Even though the Gays want this pervertion to come to pass, ask yourself, who really benefits from this abomination? Satan, the Devil that’s who and the only one thing mankind will get from it is judgement from God and spiritual death for ever in the lake of fire. Who in their right mind want that?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/thekid1986/ thekid1986

    Never to be accepted!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dianes2/ Dianes2

    I disagree with same sex marriage.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JIMMYSHOE/ JIMMYSHOE

    I don’t believe in gay marriage but I think gay people have the law on their side with this. The 14th Amendment has an Equal Protection Clause which requires states to provide equal protection under the law to all people within their jurisdictions. When the state issues a marriage license, it is not affirming any religious doctrine or believe; it is establishing certain legal rights and protections for both parties. There are about 1800 laws that govern marriage as it pertains to the law and it is legal for two individuals to have a lawyer draw up a contract to incorporate them. This is what Civil Unions do. If you argue this from a religious perspective then you’ll lose because it is against the law to project one’s religious beliefs on another. It is easier to deal with what is socially acceptable and that is where the gay marriage debate stalls because most people don’t find that idea acceptable. But if you are not willing to create a law that bans gay relationships then it is discrimination as social norms change over time. It may not be on par with Blacks fighting for their Civil Rights – but as long as the issue is about equal protection under the law – then gay marriage is indeed a civil rights issue.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/slit_lcka005/ slit_lcka005

    The majority of blacks will never ride with gay marriage!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/regg4uu/ regg4uu

    There is no such thing as Gay sex. Its SODOMY! Sex is between a man and a woman! No such thing as two males or two females marring! ITS Sodomy!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/StarrSantiago/ StarrSantiago

    IamyourGod…your response raps this debate up nicely. I think Gay citizens are biting off more than they can chew (or even need to chew). Their demands are just starting to seem irrational and demanding just for the sake of it.

    *a big thumbs down*

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Zimbarino/ Zimbarino

    hmm nice to see your all such amazing people, who have love for thy neighbour (based on your opinions and “reasons” for such opinions im unsure of your intelligence i will point out that was sarcasm). i cant even understand how your minds function or your hearts, how you can have such a capacity for hate? and be so ignorant? but i am totally shocked and disapointed.

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