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Knowledge wrote:
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> Black caucus resists comparison of gay 'marriage' to civil rights
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> "The civil rights movement was more of a movement for the equal rights
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> of ALL Americans: education, voting rights, jobs. Whereas gay rights
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> in terms of gay marriage is a movement for a special group of
> Americans," said Rep. Artur Davis, Alabama Democrat. "So I would not
> compare civil rights with gay rights."
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> Mr. Thompson said same-sex "marriage" could in some small way affect
> whom blacks decide to support in November, "if they feel that strongly
> about it." But, he said, ultimately he did not think it was enough of
> a hot-button issue to trump "more pressing" issues for black America
> in the election, such as the economy, jobs, health care and education.
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> Mr. Kerry said Republicans are using the proposed constitutional
> amendment to ban same-sex "marriage" as a "wedge issue" to divide
> America. Mr. Thompson agreed.
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> But Republican lawmakers have said Mr. Bush was forced to act after
> the newly elected mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, a Democrat,
> began issuing "marriage" licenses to homosexual couples in violation
> of California state law, and when Jason West, the mayor of New Paltz,
> N.Y., and a Green Party member, also began "marrying" same-sex
> couples.
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> More than 4,100 same-sex "weddings" have been performed in San
> Francisco in the past two months and hundreds more in New Paltz.
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> And if it is made a wedge issue, there does not appear to be a lot of
> wiggle room between Democrats and Republicans. In fact, some black
> Democrats are considering the amendment.
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> "I have not made a decision on the constitutional amendment. Although
> I don't see a need for one, when I see mayors announcing that they
> will violate the law, it raises the point and puts the country and the
> Congress in a difficult position," Mr. Davis said.
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> A handful of black pastors in Boston have voiced their disapproval of
> the same-sex rights and civil rights link this week. And the Rev.
> Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of Los Angeles-based
> Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, called on black ministers
> across the country to oppose same-sex "marriage" and to support the
> proposed federal marriage amendment.
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> Both Mr. Kerry and Mr. Bush say they are against homosexual
> "marriage." Mr. Kerry said he support civil unions, a sort-of marriage
> by contracts and wills rather than one with ministers, a license and
> full state approval. Mr. Bush has been somewhat cagey on the civil
> unions issue, but has thrown his support behind a constitutional
> amendment defining marriage between a man and a woman.
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> But polls show that the majority of Americans are against legalizing
> "marriage" between homosexuals.
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> A CBS poll conducted Feb. 24 through 27 showed that 62 percent of
> Americans oppose homosexual "marriage" with 30 percent saying they are
> in favor and 8 percent undecided. The same poll showed that 59 percent
> of Americans favored the constitutional amendment with 35 percent
> opposing it and 6 percent undecided. The poll had a 3 percent margin
> of error.
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> A recent national Gallup poll showed that 40 percent of blacks were
> accepting of homosexuality.
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