Interracially Married Couples Insulted By Comparison of Their Relationships to Gay Marriage

February 20, 2004 | ComtedeMaistre

[ComtedeMaistre]

Over the past week, I had conversations with two long-time friends who are interracially married, over the ongoing controversy over gay marriage in Massachussetts and San Francisco. One is a next door neighbor in Louisiana, who is a white man married to a Vietnamese woman. The other is a black man from Seattle whom I have known since college, and he is married to a white woman from Alabama, and they are now living in Salt Lake City, Utah (we talked over the phone).

Both men are very conservative Christians and very pro-family, and they feel deeply insulted when they hear their loving, healthy, and normal relationships, being compared to the depravity of homosexual sodomy. And both are raising their children with strong traditionalist family values.

I suggested to both, that if several interracially married couples would speak out publicly, opposing the likening of their relationships to homosexuality, the comparisons that the homosexual activists are making by comparing themselves to interracially-married couples, would be rendered null and void.

Both thought it was a good idea. But they felt that, because interracially married couples still have to endure so much racial prejudice, it would be hard to find couples with the guts to speak out publicly in opposition to the homosexual agenda. My black friend in Utah has had it much worse than my white friend in Louisiana, because his white inlaws in Alabama have never accepted him as part of the family. His wife's parents have never even seen their own daughter's biracial children, and seem to have no interest in ever meeting them.

But I still feel that it is important for interracially married couples to speak out publicly against the homosexual agenda, in order to prevent gay activists from morally blackmailing this country, by accusing their pro-family opponents of bigotry. Such statements from interracially married couples who know real prejudice, would be taken more seriously by moderate swing voters, and help to mobilize them in supporting a constitutional ammmendment defining marriage as a man and a woman.

[Cinnamon Girl]

I'm confused. Did you see post #79?

[Chris Talk]

Goodness, Google has hundreds of sources.

Very quickly I have just been skimming

http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/did_moses_marry_a_cushite.htm


Looks like that quickly gives the story, I had forgotten her name, Tharbis, but it is beginning to come back to me. Moses had been a great general of Egypt in his 30's or so and the Exodus did not take place till he was in his eighties.

[Atlas Sneezed]

The simple difference between being gay and being a minority is that being a minority is NORMAL.

We can still be friends with, and happily live nearby, and hire the abnormal, but that doesn't make them normal.

[Eastbound]

whoops! start=finish

[jocon307]

THANKS!

[August West]

Gays aren't barred from marrying; they have the same legal right as anyone else to marry whom they choose. The problem they face is they want to call a peversion "marraige". It's bad enough that we even have to know of their existence - Remember when they pleaded that they just want to be left alone? I fell for it. Much more of this shoving their sickness down our throats and their peversion will once again be illegal. Don't compare it to interracial marriage - that is offensive.

[White Eagle]

I suspect that this issue will end up hurting the Democrats in a way that they'd never consider

Does anybody actually take anything that the Democrats say seriously, anyway? This entire primary cycle has been nothing but a contest of, "Can you top this?". And there's been no responsible adult involved, except maybe Joe L.

I'd like to believe that this is the issue that finally drives people away from the Democrats, but there have been so many good reasons before that just haven't done it. Hope you're right about this.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Thanks for the source, Chris Talk. As you know, Josephus is a secondary source, not a primary one, and he would have had to find this in Midrash. I will start looking for the midrashic text of this. If you find it before me, please let me know. ;)

[Tired of Taxes]

I searched specifically for a thread like this one. My husband and I are also "interracially married", and we too are insulted by the comparison. I'm glad to see that most Freepers recognize the difference.

I saw the S.F. mayor on Larry King the other night. When Musgrave asked him if legalized polygamy will be next, he dismissed her argument as a "red herring". Yet, he and others consistently compare gay marriage to interracial marriage, and the mainstream media seems to accept that comparison.

I can think of only one other group besides white liberals that equates gay couples with interracial couples, and that's the white supremecists - they see us in the same light as white liberals do. Quite revealing, imho.

Thanks for posting your comments.

[Bogey78O]

It’s ridiculous to compare them because race is nebulous. Is an italian and a German race mixing? Indian and Polish? Egyptian and Zulu?

It’s pretty much settled that other than an extreme minority, sex is binary.