Well to be fair, polls show that most blacks do oppose gay marriage.
I think it has more to do with the competition between the big, so-called bread and butter issues versus the social ones. In other words, even most blacks who oppose gay marriage and abortion on demand are not going to vote against Kerry or other Dems who support those two things yet say all the right things when it comes to 'civil rights', education and health care spending, etc.
You see it all the time. Take California for example. There the majority of Hispanics (and blacks too ???) voted for the ban on gay marriage, yet they turn right around and vote for politicians who oppose them on that issue and others.
"Well to be fair, polls show that most blacks do oppose gay marriage. "
Yep. And the prime mover/shaker of the backlash of black Christian is a Rev. Ken Hutcherson (sp?)
who has appeared a couple of times on Focus on The Family for the "May Day For Marriage"
march in Washington, D.C. on October 15.
http://www.maydayformarriage.com