Sunday at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Atlanta, Al Sharpton gave a sermon strongly condemning churches support of Prop 8.
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Is Gay The New Black?
By Jesse Washington
Gay is the new black, say the protest signs and magazine covers, casting the gay marriage battle as the last frontier of equal rights for all.
Read More...Black Vote Dismissed By Gay Activists Before Prop 8 Passage?
As the battle between two marginalized communities rages on, Andrew Sullivan highlights an interview with a prominent African-American lesbian activist who claims to have been dismissed by gay activists before Prop 8’s passage. She was told the black vote “didn’t matter,” and outreach was unnecessary.
Read More...OPINION: Stop The Hate On Prop 8
From theroot.com:
The lingering tension between gays and lesbians and the African-American community over the passage of California’s Proposition 8—banning same-sex marriage—isn’t a laughing matter, but it is absurd. It has all the makings of a Tyler Perry movie starring the casts of Big Love and The L Word.
Diary of a Mad Black Mormon Lesbian Nun? Now showing in California and coming soon to a theater near you.
Read More...Prop 8 Myth Busted Again
Black voters in California have been blamed for the passage of an anti-gay marriage ban called Proposition 8. Here is yet another rebuttal of that argument, this time from noted poll interpreter Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com:
“The notion that Prop 8 passed because of the Obama turnout surge is silly….”
Black Voters Drove Gay Marriage Ban? Online Debate Rages.
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.
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