My post on a Yahoo! news story "Many blacks shrug off Obama's new view on gays"

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34. I would have voted to leave alone despite the anger and the one incorrect statement, which has been

corrected in this thread with the reference to Bayard Rustin and other LGBT people - known and unknown - who marched and fought for black civil rights.

I agree with everything else the poster is saying and I understand his anger.

As a white lesbian, I strongly oppose the tendency of the media and a whole lot of people to blame black people for the current war on gay people, which is run and financed almost entirely by white people. The virulently homophobic organization National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has a specific strategy to divide two strongly Democratic groups from one another by deliberately pitting gay voters against black voters. As a result of court cases in Maine, NOM's secret documents on this plan were revealed. See link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/27/nom-anti-gay-marriage-plans-hrc-revealed_n_1382388.html

As I post downthread, the news reports aren't accurate. They are cherry picking data to cause trouble. It is absolutely false for the media to suggest that this amendment passed in North Carolina because of black voters. This effort was planned and executed by bigoted WHITE out of state groups like the Alliance Defense Fund, which wrote the legislation that the virtually ALL-WHITE Republican legislators in North Carolina approved without allowing public comment. The get out the vote for hate was financed by virtually ALL-WHITE groups like NOM (probably a front for the Mormon and Catholic church leadership and maybe three WHITE multi-millionaires) and willingly spread by zillions of WHITE preachers spewing hate from the pulpits every Sunday. The fact that black preachers and black congregations were targets as well is just part of the NOM strategy.

I know the faces of the people who made sure that hate would prevail in North Carolina last Tuesday and they are 99% white.