Last week President Obama finally admitted the obvious and acknowledged his support for the legal recognition of same-gender relationships. He does deserve credit however for saying that while this is his personal opinion the issue ought to be decided by the states. At present that bodes well for the forces of moral sanity since in every one of the 32 states in which the issue has been decided not by judicial or legislative fiat but by a vote of the citizens such recognition has gone down to defeat.
Black Protestants remain among the religious communities most resistant to recognition with a Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life survey showing that only 33 percent of black churchgoers support the legislation nearly unchanged from the 30 percent support it had in 2001. Blacks were a factor in last week’s passage of a constitutional amendment in North Carolina defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
Yet at the same time black support for Barack Obama remains at sky-high levels hovering around the 90 percent mark. One of the least-discussed facts of the Obama presidency is that without this near-monolithic black support Mr. Obama would not have been elected and would be at a crisis level in his public approval ratings.
Perhaps it’s too much to expect that black religious leaders would speak out against the president’s recent pronouncement. But this does provide yet one more reason for social conservatives to work all the harder to defeat Obama in November. So long as he remains in office the black churchgoing community cannot be counted on to join forces in opposing the ongoing effort to steamroll American society into supporting the immoral same-gender agenda. Only Obama’s removal from office will set the black community free to vote its conscience in this matter as it did so crucially in the case of California’s Proposition 8 which overturned the California supreme court’s ruling legitimizing same-gender marriages.
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