Civil Right?
As progressive politics have handed an enormous victory to Barack Obama, it's confusing that the most fervent supporters of the liberal president-elect would also be the most staunch defenders of marriage.
Despite much political correctness against "writing discrmination into the Constitution," voters in California ( also in Arizona and Florida) decided marriage really should be defined as a union of a man and woman so they defeated gay marriage by 52% to suppport Prop 8 to 47% opposed.
California really is about as liberal as it comes. The sensitization of the culture was as natural as the poppies growing along the freeways. Speech codes, hyper-femenism and just about every progressive social trend you can imagine has been cultivated in the Gold State. With San Francisco the self-proclaimed homeland to lesbian,gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, curious, down-low culture, how did Proposition 8, a referendum to define marriage as between a man and a woman, pass despite the enormous stigma associated with supporting it?
Conservative conspiracy?
Black women overwhelmingly said yes to Barack Obama and no to gay marriage.
Even more puzzling was the overwhelming rejection of black women to same-sex marriage. Black women are statistically the least likely to actually participate in traditional marriage, fewer than 1/4 of black mothers are married to the father of their children. So, why would they feel so strongly to uphold the institution of marriage?
Not buying it: Blacks specifically rejected same-sex marriage as a "civil right"
Blacks were twice as likely to vote Yes on Proposition 8 as their white counter-parts. The Latino vote was also very much in favor for keeping marriage between a man and a woman. It's a strange irony that the two key Democrat constituents that inspired to the campaign call to "make history" and elect Obama as the first black president, also profited from their trip to the poll to say "no" to gay marriage.
California distribution of the Yes vs. No on Proposition 8, 5% tipped the scales against gay marriage.
In the 2004 election, homosexual activist accused Republicans of "gay bashing" in order to keep George W. Bush in the White House, when constitutional amendments were put on the ballot to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Four years later, as if from some slasher film, the liberals who frantically called for help against the right-wing boogie man learned the "hate" was actually originating from within their very own house.
This pop culture approach to support gay marriage failed and disappointed many pro-same-sex marriage activist when Californians decided it was cool to be square.
*In yet another slap to liberal dogma, Californians overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 10 Alternative Fuel a proposal to provide financial incentives for renewable energy. California has historically been in the forefront of the alternative energy "revolution", but when it came to putting some bucks behind the rhetoric, Californians balked.
In 1996, President Bill Clinton passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in response to the possibility of same-sex marriage in the state of Hawaii. Since then, twenty-six states have enacted constitutional amendments defining marriage as between a man and a woman. 
Recent Comments