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I can guarantee you that for any black person opposed to homosexual marriage, it has absolutely nothing to do with "civil rights attention". You can scour the entire nation and you won't find any black person who is opposed to homosexual marriage for that reason. It's not even on the radar screen.

It is because the black community in many ways is still very Bible-based. For the most part, they believe homosexual behavior is a sin. When something that is sinful tries to co-opt the civil rights movement it is galling to a lot of people.

The black community as a whole is much less "tolerant" of homosexuals than other communities, and political correctness has done little to change this. That's why rappers, hardly themselves paragons of moral virtue, see no hypocrisy when slamming "fa**ots" in their rhymes.

It may seem strange, since apparently the poor black community places a low value on getting married anyway. I say the POOR community because my observations of middle and upper class blacks reveals little difference between how they view marriage and how whites and others view it. One reason poor blacks place a low value on marriage is that the government programs so many of them rely on discourage marriage and do nothing to contribute to the notion of a stable family life.

I wish I could say that I believed the black community is Bible based. You can't pick and choose the issues you want when it comes to the Bible. You either take it all or leave it all.

Of course, there is little doubt that the white community also lacks that moral foundation.

Thanks for your comments. This is more factual to the reason that blacks dislike the gay issue. It is interesting to read the generalities stated about blacks like they don't believe in marriage and they all have children by different men. I guarantee you that middle class blacks are not like this. Yet this is the same board that's asking blacks to vote as republicans. Kinda like saying all whites marry and then divorce the next day or so, have been married more than once and therefore disregard marriage.