Thursday, May 10, 2012
The president’s coming out in favor of gay marriage shows he’s to the left of most black Americans — and willing to throw his most loyal backers under the gay pride float.
Values: The
president’s coming out in favor of gay marriage shows he’s to the left
of most black Americans — and willing to throw his most loyal backers
under the gay pride float.
Under pressure
to assuage the gay lobby and young voters ahead of November,Obama on
Wednesday told ABC News “it is important for me to go ahead and affirm
that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”
By
finally taking the controversial stance,which won’t go over well in the
black community,he’s clearly counting on African-American voters
remaining loyal to him this election out of racial pride and a habit of
voting Democrat.
But he may have miscalculated.
Gay marriage is highly unpopular among black voters — and he’ll need every one of them to beat presumptive GOP foe Mitt Romney.
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