It is no secret
that resistance to homosexuality is highest among the black population
(though probably other ethnic minorities are close contenders). I fear
that it will be harder than usual to persuade black men of the
obligation to marry the mother of their children if the inevitable
media saturation coverage associates marriage with homosexuals. Is the
availability of homosexual marriage a valid reason to shun the
institution? No, but that doesn’t make the reaction any less likely.
What are the chances that gay marriage would further doom marriage among blacks? I don’t know. Again, if someone can persuade me that the chances are zero, then I would be much more sanguine. But anything more than zero, I am reluctant to risk.
My favorite comment:
I've figured it out.
These people have 12 sided dice. They roll three of them to come up with these ridiculous stories.
"Okay, I got minority issues, personal responsibility, and gays! How do I tie this all together?"
It's like a new failboat party game.
These people have 12 sided dice. They roll three of them to come up with these ridiculous stories.
"Okay, I got minority issues, personal responsibility, and gays! How do I tie this all together?"
It's like a new failboat party game.
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Posted by: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester | May 07, 2009 at 15:43
Nah, the onion still does it better, if not as outlandishly. And here I thought black men were shunning marriage because "defense of marriage" was associated with racist white jerkwads.
Posted by: paul | May 07, 2009 at 19:12
hasn't marriage been restricted to straights for decades?
i don't think gay marriage is an issue in the hood. maybe no jobs.....
Posted by: pansypoo | May 07, 2009 at 20:20
Don't worry, they will Bush it up.
Posted by: self exile | May 07, 2009 at 23:12
+1 geek point for using '12-sided dice'.
Posted by: idiosynchronic | May 07, 2009 at 23:30
So a middle-aged white woman knows best how gay marriage will affect the attitudes of young black men?
I think I'll ask the Pope his opinion on my PMS symptoms first.
Posted by: missy | May 08, 2009 at 11:08
Maybe anxious racist white people should stop looking at "black men" as a monolithic whole. And while they're at it, they should stop pushing marriage as the be-all and end-all of relationships. Shit, I understand why poor people in uncertain circumstances don't get married -- it costs a fucking fortune, and it costs an even bigger fucking fortune to get out of a legal marriage once you've been suckered into it in the first place.
Oh, yeah, and if the same anxious racist white people would stop pushing a 1950s ideational version of marriage on all of us as the ideal, divorces would be cheaper and easier (not that they're not cheaper and easier than they used to be, but still), and poor people in uncertain circumstances would be less shy of getting married in the first place.
Further, this married/non-married by economic status split has historically always been true -- marriage was almost always a privilege of the upper and moneyed middle classes, while everyone else just kind of shacked up.
Posted by: Interrobang | May 08, 2009 at 11:12
Heh, idiosynchronic. I wonder what the saving throw against stupid wingnut banality is?
Posted by: BuggyQ | May 08, 2009 at 11:45