Gay is not the New Black
The Prop 8 debate has caused polarization between white gay community and African Americans. Saying "Gay is the new black" poses the problems for many African Americans
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Gays Hit Back at Mormons
Given their history, Mormons know about being targeted for being different. Yet in a full-on offensive, the LDS Church mobilized in favor of California's Prop 8, a ballot initiative that bans gay marriage.
Democracy, Religion and Proposition 8
From a strictly legal perspective, it is next to impossible for courts to enforce the separation of church and state in the context of laws like Proposition 8.
My Congratulation Letter To Those Against Gay Marriage
People who voted against marriage equality didn't think, "what's the stupidest most hateful thing I can vote for today?" Some of their criteria is wrong in my opinion, but it's better to look for agreement.
2008: What Will We Tell The Children?
Pull up a chair and settle in while I spin a yarn about 2008. The story actually begins 20 years into the future (visualize a clock advancing rapidly...
Stop Blaming California's Black Voters for Prop 8
Don't forget the 49% of Asians who voted for Prop 8, the 53% of Latinos and the nearly 50% percent of whites, a group representing 63% of California voters. Last I checked, blacks held little sway over those groups.
Four Reasons Not to Get Married in California
There are important personal and symbolic reasons for gays to marry in California. But it is a mistake to act without thinking carefully about the serious legal and financial implications.
Barack, Get a Klue
Obama, never say you support gay and lesbian rights again. You do not. You condone them being bashed, being legislated against. Words are not enough, Obama. Either you're with us, or you're not.
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds ...
The California Supreme Court has overturned that state's ban on gay marriage. Is marriage a legal right or a sacred rite? Should the state be involved in marriage? Should religious institutions?
What Ms. Roosevelt Might Have Said About Gay Rights
If Ms. Roosevelt was around today... would she have used the 60th anniversary of the UDHR the way gay activists have; and would she have endorsed a national boycott in solidarity with them?
Prop. 8 and our schools -- time to tell it like it is.
One of the most cynical - and successful - claims made during the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign was that unless the proposition passed, our schoolchil...
Should Adopted Children be Allowed to Say "Mommy" and "Daddy?"
After all, if anybody can throw around words like "son" or "daughter" to describe someone they share absolutely no DNA with, where does it end?
Prop 8 Inquisitors "Command" Court To "Bow"
I am no constitutional expert, but I am pretty sure that the the only time a legal brief counts as a commandment is when God writes it -- on stone (see, e.g., The Bible).
Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us
While we rightfully celebrate the election of our first African American president, let us take a moment to mourn the passage of three new laws legalizing prejudice.
Prop 8, a Campaign Based on Fears and Lies
As someone who was raised in the Mormon Church and fulfilled my two-year missionary assignment overseas, I know something about Latter-day Saints teachings.
The Anti-Gay Blacklist
This movement for equal rights is based on the belief in the equal protection of the law. That means equal protection for us, but it also means equal protection for the people who hate us.
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it was taken off the front pages!!!!!!!
Huffingtonpost needs to be shut down. I can't believe they put so many post about Prop 8 on there Website when everyone was accusing Black People for passing Prop 8, Now that the accusation been proving wrong, Huffingtonpost takes the post Down.
I will never post on the website again. WOW
I wonder if the msm is reporting in prop 8 updates?
Yet another example that clearly shows that gay whites can be just as racist as the straight ones! I read comments posted by gays blaming the black church for Prop 8 when it was the Mormon Church that was the driving force behind getting it on the ballot! Not to mention the fact that half the whites and most Hispanics voted for Prop 8 also! But somehow gays didnt bash Hispanics for that fact! Race trumps everything!
Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker had it figured out even with the original exit polls that it was not African-Americans who tipped the balance:
From http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/12/01/081201taco_talk_hertzberg?printable=true
"Some conservative commentators, who didn"t have much else to gloat about, dwelt lingeringly on what they evidently regarded as the upside of the huge, Obama-sparked African-American turnout. "It was the black vote that voted down gay marriage," Bill O"Reilly, of Fox News, insisted triumphantly"and, it turns out, wrongly. If exit polling is to be believed, seventy per cent of California"s African-American voters did indeed vote yes on Prop. 8, as did upward of eighty per cent of Republicans, conservatives, white evangelicals, and weekly churchgoers. But the initiative would have passed, barely, even if not a single African-American had shown up at the polls."
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