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Black pastors have started to condemn President Obama's support for gay marriage. Here's a link to this story:
http://wsmv.com/story/18503959/black-pastors-condemn-obamas-gay-marriage-support
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The unanswered question is, will President Obama's support for gay marriage cost him the votes of those black pastors and their members?
I don't think we can automatically assume that the answer is "yes."
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I guess only time will tell.
I'm sure that regardless of what Obama says or does between now and November, quite a number of blacks will continue to support their "Messiah."
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I can hardly wait until "the One" becomes "the Once". :laugh:
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Just as there are many whites who, no matter what, would never support him because he is their 'antichrist.'
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BIG difference here is that white conservative Christians opposse him ONLY due to his antichrist viewpoints, while Black Christian support him still in spite of them!
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Same sex marriages are more popular among white Christians than black.
http://www.wsmv.com/story/18370872/black-christians-divided-over-same-sex-marriage
A Pew Research Center poll conducted in April found that 49 percent of African-Americans oppose legalized same-sex marriage, compared with 39 percent who support it.
Among whites, by contrast, Pew found that 47 percent supported gay marriage, while 43 percent opposed it.
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Even more astounding is that 70% of African Americans supported the California ban on same sex marriage.
In California, 70 percent of African-Americans supported Prop 8, the 2008 state gay marriage ban, even though 94 percent of black voters in California backed Obama.
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This is an interesting quote. I don't know if Obama openly endorsed same sex marriages at this time, so that could account for the perceived contradiction here.
Only time will tell, but I believe Obama's open support of same sex marriage will hurt him this time, how much, nobody knows.