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Black caucus resists comparison of gay marriage to civil rights
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| News Date | Monday, March 15, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Black caucus resists comparison of gay marriage to civil rights
The Honolulu Advertiser
Congressional black Democrats said comparisons shouldn't be made between the struggle by homosexuals to legalize same-sex "marriage" and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus said they are on shaky ground with their constituents after the presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry compared the two issues during a town hall meeting in Jackson, Mississippi. The Massachusetts senator said he saw a correlation between the issues, which didn't fare too well in the heavily black deep South.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who attended the town hall meeting said, "My approach to homosexual rights is it is a separate issue." A recent national Gallup poll showed that 40 percent of blacks were accepting of homosexuality. |
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