Posted on 07/15/2012 1:43:35 PM PDT by scottjewell
President Barack Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus are not in step with the majority of African-Americans who don’t equate gay rights with civil rights, former Rep. Artur Davis said in an interview.
“When you say to African-Americans, ‘the gay struggle is the black struggle,’ they don’t buy it,” David explained to The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas.
Davis, a former Democrat from Alabama, cited the prejudices that blacks dealt with as evidence: exclusion from the voting booth, job opportunities and colleges; and the threat of violence against them.
“African-Americans were completely, in every sense of the word, marginalized,” he said. “They were also the poorest group in the United States. With all due respect to gay Americans, that’s not the condition of the gay community today.”
Davis described how Obama”s announcement of support for gay marriage made many people uneasy in the black community, although a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll found that support for gay marriage jumped to 59 percent among blacks.
“Many African-Americans think there’s a virtue in men marrying women because it means mothers and fathers, frankly. That’s their real stake in the issue,” he said. “There’s no question that the African-American community is a monolithic liberal community on economic issues, but it is a much more conflicted community on social issues.”
He explained that while blacks may agree with Republicans on some social issues, the GOP has a long way to go in proving that free-market ideas are good for minorities.
Look for the full interview with Davis Monday morning.
VIDEO:
http://dailycaller.com/?p=3267520#ooid=xzaTZkNToRqxrdO7cn1FsiGDsvm8By5c
The chance this will change a significant number of Black votes? ZERO!
they never have been, i would think.
Lets see here:
Civil Rights - The right to be treated equally in areas pertaining to race, gender, and other areas of life you have no choice in the matter. How many choose to be born of a specific race?
“Gay Rights” - Wanting additional “rights” that no other group has, based on for own CHOICE of lifestyle...
Hmmm...
Don't you know? Race trumps EVERYTHING!
“Gay Rights” - demanding that all governments pretend that homosexuality is normal.
I'd disagree. If McCain's and Obama's party affiliations had been reversed, Obama would have won 10% of the black vote. Party trumps everything, especially when the party concerned is an advocate of freebies and racial preferences for blacks.
I don’t think this will make any blacks vote for Romney. It might, however, make some abstain from voting altogether. Probably not a great number, though....
I think you’re right. It is party in terms of elections. A Herman Cain on the GOP ticket versus a white Democrat would lose with black voters.
If I was black I would be highly insulted that someone made the comparison...
No gay person was ever put in chains or made a slave(at least not against their will), no gay person was denied an education, denied equal pay, had their children sold off as property, denied even basic human rights..
The only thing gays are not being recognized for is being normal...which they are not...
Blacks may not vote for Romney but they certainly might sit on their hands in protest..
Funny how Holder is trying to gin up their base by claiming voter suppression.... interesting timeline...
Davis, a former Democrat from Alabama, cited the prejudices that blacks dealt with as evidence: exclusion from the voting booth, job opportunities and colleges; and the threat of violence against them... "African-Americans were... also the poorest group in the United States. With all due respect to gay Americans, that's not the condition of the gay community today." ...a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll found that support for gay marriage jumped to 59 percent among blacks.
Yes, insulted would be the right reaction. So many of these politically correct gays with their agenda are very monied, very powerful in terms of real estate, professions, investments, etc. Many of them are in television and film production, in the Hollywood set and as a political lobby they are extremely powerful though they comprise roughly 2% of the population. As a “class” they do not tend to be underprivileged like the blacks. And as he states in the video, for blacks, marriage is seen as a goal for the preservation of families and children. Not as some new fangled form of liberation and political fashion statement.
Most welcome.
Even if it were rare, or even unheard-of ("abnormal"), for people to be self-controlled, generous, honest, modest, pure, chaste -- it would still be right.
Even if it were typical ("normal") for people to be self-gratifying, exploitative, promiscuous, lustful, perverse, sodomistic --- it would still be wrong.
The big issue with “homosexual rights”, which is not talked about very much, is that the “gay” community was a hidden group. It’s as if “Don’t Ask / Don’t Tell” used to apply to our entire society. Gays only had problems if they insisted on being publicly and openly homosexual.
Gays today insist that “we’re here, we’re queer” and other more vulgar language heard at homosexual pride parades. They insist on getting in people’s faces. Then, if there is a backlash, according to liberal theology, the fault is not with the gays who insist on provoking mainstream society. The fault is that of mainstream society, for not being tolerant or liberal enough.
Heck some of these “gay pride” parades advertise themselves as family friendly nowadays! Bring the family, and bring the kids, they say! Enjoy the parade with the family!
Maybe I went on a tangent, but we’re well on the way to normalizing homosexuality in our culture.
Race is an immutable condition, sexual preference is not.
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