NO ON 8 AND OBAMA …… NOT A GOOD MARRIAGE

Okay, I’ll admit it, I did read the LA Times this week.  For those who find that particularly abhorrent, I suppose you can delete this message (and perhaps permanently place me in your spam file).  But for those who will forgive me, a recent op/ed caught my attention and to save you the indignation and need to go to the pharmacy to procure anti-allergy pills, I thought I’d cut and paste just one paragraph for you.

Many people wrongfully assumed that those voters who were for Obama would also be for Prop 8. This assumption was based on the wrongheaded belief that Obama voters would never support any proposition which could be framed as being against civil rights. This belief was not only wrongheaded but also in my mind, it continues the usual misunderestimation (one of the few good Bush malapropisms) of the Black community.

Ms. Cannick’s op/ed surmises the following:  the high turnout of new Black voters for Obama coupled with the audacity to hope that the Black community would march like lemmings lockstep with the NO on Prop 8 bandwagon, may have just led to the passage of Prop 8.

In her article, Jasmyne Cannick, a self-avowed Black lesbian writer, says the following:

But the black civil rights movement was essentially born out of and driven by the black church; social justice and religion are inextricably intertwined in the black community. To many blacks, civil rights are grounded in Christianity — not something separate and apart from religion but synonymous with it. To the extent that the issue of gay marriage seemed to be pitted against the church, it was going to be a losing battle in my community.

I agree wholeheartedly with this.  The likely highly paid consultants for the No on 8 Committee failed to see this and their misreading of the situation at hand, coupled with the insanely high Black voter registration and turnout numbers likely had as much to do with the Passage of this Proposition as anything else.