{"id":3155,"date":"2007-02-09T09:48:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T16:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/09\/race-opposition-to-equal-marriage-rights-and-homophobia\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T09:48:43","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T16:48:43","slug":"race-opposition-to-equal-marriage-rights-and-homophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3155","title":{"rendered":"Race, Opposition to Equal Marriage Rights, And Homophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"

While reading Family Scholar’s blog, I noticed Elizabeth’s quoting of a New York Times<\/em> article. Here’s the complete text of Elizabeth’s post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

RACE AND SSM<\/p>\n

In a new University of Chicago study:<\/p>\n

Fifty-eight percent of blacks opposed legalizing same-sex marriage<\/a> compared to 36 percent of Hispanics, and 35 percent of whites.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elizabeth’s partial quoting of the paragraph from the news story obscures the striking correspondence between homophobia and opposing marriage equality. Here’s what the complete paragraph in the Times <\/em>story says:<\/p>\n

In addition 55 percent of blacks felt homosexual activity was always wrong compared to 36 percent of Hispanics and 35 percent for whites. Fifty-eight percent of blacks opposed legalizing same-sex marriage compared to 36 percent of Hispanics, and 35 percent of whites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So in all three populations, according to this survey, the rates of homophobia and the rates of opposing equal marriage rights are virtually identical. Although I doubt Elizabeth left that out of her post on purpose, the strong popular connection between anti-gay bigotry and opposition to marriage equality is certainly a subject that she avoids discussing.<\/p>\n

So why are blacks more likely to oppose SSM — and gay sex — than whites? I don’t know for sure, but I’d bet the fact that blacks attend church more than whites<\/a> (I don’t know what the stats are for Latinas) has a lot to do with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While reading Family Scholar’s blog, I noticed Elizabeth’s quoting of a New York Times article. Here’s the complete text of Elizabeth’s post: RACE AND SSM In a new University of Chicago study: Fifty-eight percent of blacks opposed legalizing same-sex marriage … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}