African Americans and Latinos spur gay marriage revolution
And while the usual suspects continue to favor gay marriage — young people and non-religious people — exit polls show the most important shifts in support among two key communities: African Americans and Hispanics.
Black voters, in particular, have been slow to embrace gay marriage, even as the vast majority vote Democratic and the rest of the party has embraced gay marriage. On Tuesday, though, they played a major role in passing Maryland’s new gay marriage law.
Maryland is heavily Democratic, which made it a likely candidate to be one of the first states to vote for gay marriage. But the state is also heavily African-American (29 percent) and has a significant Latino population (8 percent), which made passage something less than certain. …
On Tuesday in Maryland, though, 46 percent of African Americans supported gay marriage. And according to national exit polls, 52 percent of both black and Latino voters who turned out Tuesday said they support gay marriage in their states.
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Mainstreaming gross immorality is the only way to secure a prosperous and peaceful future for the United States of America.
tom daschle concerned on November 13, 2012 at 9:18 AM
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Akzed on November 13, 2012 at 9:19 AM
That would make them bigots. Why does the demorat party allow bigots in its ranks?
Bishop on November 13, 2012 at 9:20 AM
Yeah,… no.
Jeddite on November 13, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Only 46% of them are bigots.
I wonder how many in the black “community” agree with the gay “community” that gay marriage is the civil rights battle of the modern era?
gwelf on November 13, 2012 at 9:34 AM
Apparently a majority of African American/Latino voters will support whatever the Democratic Party tells them to regardless of whether they agree with it or not. Principles don’t matter when the guy who gives you “stuff” tells you to jump.
katiejane on November 13, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Youth voters really have their priorities straight. We’ve looted their future to bride the present. But hey – at least after the entitlement state collapses and every man, woman and child owes half a million dollars to foreign debtors we’ll have gay marriage.
gwelf on November 13, 2012 at 9:38 AM
If it is then America has a very serious problem with latino and black racism against gays.
CorporatePiggy on November 13, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Suppose I want to take 3 more wives. Is it a fundamental right to marry someone you can’t biologically create a family with, but it isn’t a fundamental right to marry multiple people that you can? Or, is it just a matter of satisfying a Democrat constituency group?
The Count on November 13, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Just found out that Elmo is Gay and a pedophile at that. I keep expecting our cultural standards to already have hit rock bottom only to be reminded that it’s actually a bottomless pit.
HotAirian on November 13, 2012 at 9:42 AM
FIFY
The “revolution” only came about when Obama endorsed gay marriage and blacks who opposed it suddenly became race traitors.
sadarj on November 13, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Take heart the “mainstreaming” of polygamy has already started as shown by TV shows like Big Love and Sister Wives. And yes, if it is suddenly Constitutional to marry anyone you love, and the states cannot regulate it- then polygamy will have to follow.
melle1228 on November 13, 2012 at 9:46 AM
I frankly am getting sick of the gay issue. I am ready to elect a gay dictator just to shut up the inconsequential minority that just wants to bring their sexuality public. I have never seen another special interest group who had this must pull over the population while people are losing their homes and jobs, but “C’est la vie.” And no I could care less about you sex life, but it will never be “norm” because humans are predisposed to be heterosexual. Don’t like it, take it up with evolution, creation or whatever you believe.
melle1228 on November 13, 2012 at 9:50 AM
It means they’re getting with the program. There is political polarization across the board and down the line on issue after issue. Love me, love my issues. You’re not a team player? Hit the road.
It means that whoever is hyperactive enough to succeed in insinuating his pet issue into the party platform can drag the whole apparatus along in his wake.
Whether and how to uncouple that ideological freight train is the mother of all issues.
Seth Halpern on November 13, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Meanwhile American Family Association is celebrating their passage of “kill the gays” bill in Uganda:
More on AFA’s tireless efforts to see the gays crucified:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Lively
lester on November 13, 2012 at 9:56 AM
You poor helpless sodomites!
tom daschle concerned on November 13, 2012 at 9:59 AM
lester on November 13, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Come back when you can source something other than Wiki. YOU who supports a party who turns a blind eye to countries who hand gays just for being gay. Your party says it for “gay people’ and you sheep say “oooooh shiny” but never see the bigger picture.
melle1228 on November 13, 2012 at 10:04 AM
hand*
hang
melle1228 on November 13, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Outside our Maryland polling place were signs which said something to the effect of “FORWARD – Vote YES on all seven”.
So Dear Leader got low-information followers to vote for not only gay marriage, but Democratic district gerrymandering and a Democratic Gov. O’Malley-backed gambling bill.
eforhan on November 13, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Saw a bunch of those as well. I truly weep for my state and anyone living in a high population area therein. Because when all this starts to stop, its going to get real ugly real fast and they will catch the brunt of it.
I have said it before, but Maryland is beautiful, but the politics make it horridly ugly, it is like seeing a great work of art that has been defaced.
Gatsu on November 13, 2012 at 10:51 AM
I checked out the sources for Scott Lively, and he looks pretty terrible. He advocated criminalizing public advocacy of homosexuality in Russia: http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/archives.php?id=5225300. He said he would support a Ugandan law criminalizing homosexual behavior as long as they removed the death penalty: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/anti-homosexuality-bill-uganda-global-uproar/story?id=10045436&page=3#.UKJsOzl9Kgc. Those are pretty extreme and despicable positions.
tneloms on November 13, 2012 at 10:51 AM
I think this will be the breaking straw on my view of blacks. Being able to throw away a core value as fast as they did certainly does not grant them a high degree of willpower. Obama said jump and they all did. I can understand their voting for Obama, but changing their core belief system? That is just plain weak willed.
astonerii on November 13, 2012 at 11:01 AM
I am sure he is horrible, horrendous, monstrous and has about 0 pull in the United States and with socons like me whereas the Democratic Party gets in bed with middle eastern dictators and the Palestinians who hang gays and subjugate women everyday. So I don’t want to hear about sheep like Lester until he can clear up the hypocrisy in his own party.
melle1228 on November 13, 2012 at 11:05 AM
I forgot to add the Maryland DREAM act in the above list as well.
eforhan on November 13, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Yup, the people who have only been able to vote in a couple elections are definitely the reason we’re $15T in debt.
It’s certainly the people who’ve been voting for decades and were running the country just fine until these darned kids showed up and trampled the flowers.
Stupid youths, bankrupting our nation on Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, FAFSA, etc.
WeekendAtBernankes on November 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM
Wow. Do you say the same thing about whites? Whites have also increased their support of gay marriage. Do whites also lack willpower? Or just blacks? What about latinos?
tneloms on November 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM
Yeah, this finishes the faint hope I had that blacks would have more sense on gay ‘marriage’ than they would on economics.
But I suppose I really should have known better in the first place. I mean, when they won’t protect their children from drug dealers or gang recruitment…should I really have expected them to do better on keeping perverts away from their children?
MelonCollie on November 13, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Whites don’t have a decade-long record of selling out to the Democrat welfare state in record numbers, bucko.
MelonCollie on November 13, 2012 at 11:19 AM
I hope you’re right about him having 0 pull, but he was the state director for the California branch of the American Family Association, which is a massive organization (~$20 million in spending) that does have a lot of pull. At best, that doesn’t reflect well on them, but hopefully he wasn’t able to have much of an influence when he was director.
tneloms on November 13, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Yeah and I don’t get minority Dem voters, especially black voters. The Dem party does exactly NOTHING to empower them. They give good lip service, but that it is all.
melle1228 on November 13, 2012 at 11:24 AM
Exactly. And that lip service doesn’t last when they think their little plantation members aren’t looking. Take a look at a very-much incomplete list of some revealing Democrat statements.
MelonCollie on November 13, 2012 at 11:27 AM
I’m sorry, I don’t really understand your point. astonerii said that blacks changing their minds on this issue indicates that they don’t have a lot of willpower. I asked if the same is true of whites, who have also changed their mind on this issue. I don’t see how blacks’ or whites’ voting for a welfare state over a decade has any impact on whether changing their minds on gay marriage means they lack willpower. The measure they voted on only had to do with gay marriage, not welfare. I’m sorry if I’m being dense and am missing the connection.
tneloms on November 13, 2012 at 11:29 AM
You’re not really dense, just going off automatically.
MelonCollie on November 13, 2012 at 11:29 AM
Lol! Stupid Wapo. It was blacks and Latinos that got Prop 8 in California passed.
These leftists are absolute morons.
jawkneemusic on November 13, 2012 at 11:30 AM
Whites as a whole do not have subpar lives. Many whites go from humble beginnings to lead great lives of extraordinary accomplishment. I meet plenty of blacks and they are the exception rather than the rule for their group. They are well dressed, well spoken, know their jobs, and succeed quite nicely. On the other hand, they make up the minority of their minority in this nation. The majority of blacks have children out of wedlock, a large percentage fail to complete high school, many other cultural failures. I was thinking it was more their culture that was holding them back, and not their lack of ability in general. With a massive shift to a worse culture, that sort of decimates my view that if given a reasonable cultural experience, they would be as likely to succeed as their better cultural white peers. It takes will power though to go from poor to well off or even rich.
astonerii on November 13, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Democrats may be racist, but that list doesn’t have anything from Democrats after 1960. Party memberships changed a lot in the 1970′s, and many of the racist Democrats either left the party or switched to the Republican Party. Strom Thurmond, for example, was one of those mentioned as filibustering the civil rights laws.
That doesn’t mean that Republicans are more racist than Democrats, or that all racist Democrats became Republicans, but that list doesn’t really shed much light on whether the current Democratic Party is racist.
tneloms on November 13, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Leaving the other cultural aspects aside, are you saying that acceptance of gay marriage in the black community will make it harder for them to succeed and transition from poor to well off?
tneloms on November 13, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Yes it will.
astonerii on November 13, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Not even remotely true sweetie. Out of the Dixiecrats- TWO went Republicans, the rest melded right back into the Democratic Party. Al Gore Sr. voted against the Civil Rights Acts. Bill Clinton’s mentor J. Willian Fullbright voted against the Civil Rights Act. It is the welfare party and affirmative action that tells blacks that they can’t succeed on their own that are racist.
http://www.black-and-right.com/2010/03/19/the-dixiecrat-myth/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10Section2b.t-4.html
melle1228 on November 13, 2012 at 11:44 AM
eh on November 13, 2012 at 11:59 AM
Hey blacks and Latinos! Support our moral turpitude and we’ll keep giving you free stuff! Deal?
CycloneCDB on November 13, 2012 at 11:59 AM
I don’t care what gays do. Get married, get at tattoo, whatever. I couldn’t care less.
What I don’t understand, is why do I not only have to approve of what gay people do, I am expected to applaud it. Or, I am a bad person or something.
Such is political correctness.
Moesart on November 13, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Nailed it.
MelonCollie on November 13, 2012 at 12:10 PM
With more time to respond…
The traditional, mom and dad with children model of family is the one that produces the best results for children to succeed. Embracing gay marriage simply degrades that ideal situation even more, making a mockery of the few blacks that do get married, have children, and raise them so they succeed. Thus, gay marriage in the black community will cause an even bigger decline in the opportunities black kids have.
astonerii on November 13, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Let’s see…black folks support gay marriage and Planned Parenthood, too. This means they are all for racial suicide of black folks in the former US of A, because in the end, that is exactly what they’ve been sold.
dockywocky on November 13, 2012 at 12:54 PM
Why just a discussion of gay marriage being approved of in just Maryland. The voters of the states of Maine and Washington have also approved of referendums that will allow gay marriage in those states, too. In Minnesota the referendum to amend their constitution as a marriage as only between a woman and a man was also voted down. Finally the voters are voting for gay marriage and “activist” judges are not involved.
I am all for the ideal marriage of one man and one woman, but don’t see what that has to do with the issue of gay marriage. Heterosexuals have done a darn good job all by themselves at seemingly wrecking traditional marriages all by themselves without any help from the gay community.
SC.Charlie on November 13, 2012 at 12:55 PM