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What Some Black Church Leaders Have Wrong About Male lover Marriage -- and Civil Rights
The African American church and its leadership hold often been at the forefront of movements for equality. But the recent Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage has shed light on the resistance to social change among some black church leaders -and has left them sounding more like colorless conservative leaders.
On June 26, the Court ruled that two consenting adults hold the right to receive married-even if they are the same gender. As conservatives lamented the decline of morality and warned of the hellfire that would soon rain down upon us, President Barack Obama and the Light House celebrated the decision.
Just a few hours later, Obama delivered a eulogy for Clementa Pinckney. Pinckney was a South Carolina state senator and a pastor at the historically black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church before he was shot and killed, along with eight other members, by white supremacist Dylann Roof during a Bible study on Wednesday, June 17. The juxtaposition was quite remarkable. It was a day marked by joyous celebration and indescribable pain: the first black president at the funeral of a jet man kille
Girls More Likely Than Boys to Approve of Male lover Marriage
Teens approve of marriages between people of alternative races, ethnicities, and religions, according to a recent Gallup Youth Survey*, but are considerably less approving when it comes to the subject of male lover marriages. Less than half of teens said they approve of marriage between homosexuals. But there are some interesting differences here, the most remarkable creature that girls are almost twice as likely as boys to support homosexual marriage.
Girls More Accepting Than Boys Are
Large majorities of teens said they endorse of marriages between Hispanics and non-Hispanics, between Jews and non-Jews, and between blacks and whites. While almost 9 in 10 teenagers overall approve of marriage between blacks and whites, support is slightly higher among young women than it is among young men: 91% of girls approve of marriage between blacks and whites, compared to 82% of boys who approve. 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 other views between young men and w
“Shut Up, Bigot!”: Civil Rights and 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 character, the union of one man and one woman, exclusively and for animation. 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 prevalent objection is that traditionalists are using “tolerance” as a cover for their discriminating and harmful views. The objection goes something prefer this:
Discriminating against homosexuals by not allowing them to join is as bad 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
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 attach 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
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: Ebony men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My have mother, my possess 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 support in 1956, in 1957 in Wes