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Will gay marriage cause blacks to divorce the Democratic Party?
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| Contributor | The Sunset Provision |
| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision May 18, 2009 11:14am |
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| News Date | Monday, May 18, 2009 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A local bishop wants to use black anger over gay marriage to reshape black politics in America.
“[Gay rights advocates] have used race as a litmus test — that if you’re black, you will follow liberal, predominately Democratic, rules of engagement,” Harry Jackson told The Examiner. “I’m saying, ‘Black people, be free.’ ”
Jackson is a District resident and the bishop of a mega-church in Lanham. He’s already inserted himself into the debate in California and Florida and is emerging as a national leader in the rearguard fight against gay marriage. He says the Democratic Party has taken black Americans for granted for too long and that the push for gay marriage is potential grounds for divorce.
D.C. Councilman David Catania, I-at large, shepherded through recent legislation that would have the District recognizing out-of-state gay marriages. He said that Jackson and others were cynically exploiting race as part of a vain, last-ditch effort to derail the momentum for gay rights.
“I don’t think race is as much of a factor as some would have you believe,” Catania said. “I think, in 20 years, marriage equality will be the law of the land.”
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