Posted on 11/10/2012 8:41:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Recent polls show increasing support for same-sex marriage among blacks. A national exit poll by Edison Research shows that black voters favored their state legalizing gay marriage, 51 to 41 percent. Pew polls have also showed an increase from 36 percent in 2011 to 44 percent last month supporting gay marriage.
According to the exit poll conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the NEP, 51 percent of black voters said their states should legally recognize same-sex marriage, compared with 47 percent of whites who favored this idea. It's a big shift considering that in 2011, the Pew Research Center found that only 36 percent of blacks favored legalizing gay marriage, compared with 49 percent of whites supporting it.
A Pew survey found last month that long-standing racial differences in attitudes toward gay marriage were narrowing. Consistently over the past decade, blacks have been far less supportive of legalizing gay marriage than whites. But the latest survey found blacks divided more evenly on this issue than in the past, with 44 percent in favor and 39 percent opposed to allowing gay marriage. Among whites, 49 percent favored and 41 percent opposed same-sex marriage.
These survey results come even as Maine, Maryland and Washington State legalized gay marriage through ballot measures on Election Day. Additionally, voters in Minnesota, which prohibits same-sex marriage, rejected a measure to add the prohibition to the state's constitution.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest African-American civil rights group, voted in May to support a resolution endorsing same-sex marriage at its board meeting in Miami, Fla. "The mission of the NAACP has always been to ensure political, social and economic equality of all people," Roslyn M. Brock, chairman of the Board of Directors of the NAACP, said in a statement. "We have and will oppose efforts to codify discrimination into law."
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, said in a statement, "Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law. The NAACP's support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and equal protection of all people. The well-funded right wing organizations who are attempting to split our communities are no friend to civil rights, and they will not succeed."
Many from the black community remain against same-sex marriage. The Coalition of African-American Pastors has been vocal in their opposition to President Obama's support for gay marriage and a group of well-known African Americans, including Dr. Alveda King, launched the "God Said" campaign this year in support of the biblical definition of marriage, between one man and one woman.
The Rev. William Owens, Jr., head of the "Mandate for Marriage" initiative and son of the Rev. William Owens, Sr., the founder and president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors (CAAP), had recently stressed the importance of the issue in the election.
"It's only going to increase because the very core of America is founded upon Judeo-Christian beliefs. That's debatable to some people but you can't do away with history," Owens, Jr. told The Christian Post earlier. "When you begin to take on those core values you begin to take on what's the core for America. So when more and more begin to realize what is getting ready to happen, it's going to have to become an issue if we want to save our country."
He added that the time had come for a broad-based assault against the powers that want to change America's culture to one of men marrying men and women marrying women.
They can't keep both.
For the last 30 years here has been the thinnest veneer of morality on the democratic party to allow those who wanted to be deceived to remain loyal.
Joe Biden inadvertently ripped it away and these people had to decide to abandon Christ or abandon Obama.
This election is different from any in my lifetime. Evil has been nakedly put on display and this nation has embraced it. We are at one of those "God gave them over" moments Paul talks about in Romans.
It only gets worse from here.
Perhaps a kind of sifting process. A few rebelled and went for the GOP. But most went right down the president’s primrose path.
Maybe people really aren’t more evil than they were a few months before, but the president made it seem more okay to carry on evilly. I mean look at the gutter level stuff that went on in the past campaign.
It CAN be reversed, but this only happens through voluntary gospel acceptance.
When a nation supports a fag like Obama for president, it might as well go gay, that includes all the gay blacks who voted for him.
“that the Republicans have somehow done something bad to minorities and must atone for it”
Ain’t that a kick in the teeth. We get blamed for what all those good New Deal Democrats like Lester Maddox and Bull Connor did.
Well, let's see: The article says blacks favor "same-sex 'marriage'" 51-41%. Pew Forum said this month that white Catholics favor "same-sex 'marriage'" 54-38% -- see: Latinos, Religion and Campaign 2012: Catholics Favor Obama, Evangelicals Divided
So, by comparison, please fill in the blank about white Catholics: "So the only core value white Catholics have is ____________ "
Btw, the same Pew Forum source says Latino Catholics are even worse -- favoring it 54-31%...whereas Latino Evangelicals don't favor it (25-66%)
Yup. By comparison both white Catholics and Latino Catholics are likewise losing their religion:
Well, let's see: The article says blacks favor "same-sex 'marriage'" 51-41%. Pew Forum said this month that white Catholics favor "same-sex 'marriage'" 54-38% -- see: Latinos, Religion and Campaign 2012: Catholics Favor Obama, Evangelicals Divided
Btw, the same Pew Forum source says Latino Catholics are even worse -- favoring it 54-31%...whereas Latino Evangelicals don't favor it (25-66%)
I barfed just now after seeing your post.
Well, why won't Catholics do what their leaders issue forth on this matter?
The article says blacks favor "same-sex 'marriage'" 51-41%. Pew Forum said this month that white Catholics favor "same-sex 'marriage'" 54-38% -- see: Latinos, Religion and Campaign 2012: Catholics Favor Obama, Evangelicals Divided
Btw, the same Pew Forum source says Latino Catholics are even worse -- favoring it 54-31%...whereas Latino Evangelicals don't favor it (25-66%)
So, if the pcts for this issue are actually worse among both white and Latino Catholics, then doesn't your comment above also apply to them?
Isn't there now also "the thinnest veneer of morality" amongst those in the Catholic church???
Documentation: The article says blacks favor "same-sex 'marriage'" 51-41%. Pew Forum said this month that white Catholics favor "same-sex 'marriage'" 54-38% -- see: Latinos, Religion and Campaign 2012: Catholics Favor Obama, Evangelicals Divided
Btw, the same Pew Forum source says Latino Catholics are even worse -- favoring it 54-31%...whereas Latino Evangelicals don't favor it (25-66%)
Latino evangelicals go against the cultural flow.
is this for real? i assumed it was a spoof.
Yup. And it looks like a LOT of blacks -- inside and outside of their churches; a LOT of white & Latino Catholics inside their churches...need that Gospel!
Be warned, free phones can make you gay!
no, no, i won’t say it...
Absolutely. For many people, religion isn't something to get too wound up about and let affect you too much. They were opposed to gay marriage when their chosen political persuasion did not contradict that stance. Now, not so much. Which basically just says that their moral and religious leadership comes from the democratic party rather than Christ.
Isn't there now also "the thinnest veneer of morality" amongst those in the Catholic church???
Actually I was referring to the democratic party which has supposedly been opposed to gay marriage until Joe Biden's pronouncement a few months ago.
Catholic church teaching is pretty clear on the subject even if their communication and even enforcement of it is sorely lacking.
I won’t mind if you do!
As C. S. Lewis pointed out, it’s easier for nice people to ignore their religion than it is for nasty people to. Nice people need no help being good. Nasty people need constant help.
I’m one of the nasty people.
No, God wouldn’t like it. And that matters to me
Church on Sunday is where they go because they feel guilty about the other 6 days. Candidates for martyrdom are scarce.
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