Axelrod: Obama Misled Nation When He Opposed Gay Marriage In 2008

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19. Axelrod knew what many of us know about the black church and other "Christian" denominations.

They don't want to embrace the LBGT lifestyle openly. Most embrace their loved ones, their children, their parents, their other relative but they do it undercover of feigned outrage. They know full well that the LBGTs are just like all the rest of us, human beings with feelings and all the other human frailties. Some are good, some are evil...just like the rest of us. But many so-called Christians would just rather not have to deal with the issue openly.

What drives many of the evangelicals to the polls to vote against gay marriage is not so much that they haven't seen and been a part of gay relationships among their family and friends all their lives. It's that now they feel they are being forced to openly accept such relationships and have to face their bigoted and homophobic fellow church goers.

I grew up with two aunts living together all of my life and two different sets of "uncles" in the same kind of relationships. They were all accepted by the family and were really the favorites among all the "aunts" and "uncles." It wasn't until an outsider would bring up a question about why "Aunt Jessie" never married or why handsome uncle Bill didn't have a girlfriend, that made my grandparents feign their disgust and force aunt deacon Cora to "testify" in church about how Satan was taking over the family.

Ignorant? Yes. But it was the culture of the time and remnants still exist, sadly.