Blacks and Latinos, while favoring Obama, also heavily favor traditional marriage.
The gay community bit off more than they could chew when they decided to sue for marriage.
California was a pioneer in granting rights to homosexual couples, with landmark domestic partner legislation, originally passed in 1996. And that legislation was not very controversial in California. The possibility of same-sex marriage in Calif. was controversial but not the legal concept of same-sex partnerships.
The gays over reached in my opinion. Not content with the legal rights they gained in Calif. and some other states, they decided to go to war and sue for marriage.
Well, in the year 2000, only 4 states banned same-sex marriage in their constitutions. Now, in the past eight years, 30 states have passed such bans. The key reason a majority of states now have these amendments is as a reaction to the gay desire to sue to overturn existing marriage laws.