All Blog Posts Tagged 'gay' (6)

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Reverend William Owens is banking that anti-gay marriage sentiment among blacks is so strong that it will put a crimp in President Obama’s near solid black voter support. He’s founded a group called the Coalition of African-American Pastors and he and his undetermined sized group are so confident that…

MSNBC Commentator and Political Analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson

 Discusses

 the NAACP's historic endorsement of Gay Marriage. Does this reflect the sentiment of African-Americans on the issue and what are the political consequences of the gay marriage…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson



The vote on the gay marriage ban in North Carolina’s Halifax County drew some national ink. The County in Northeast part of the state is mostly rural and majority black. It backed the state’s anti-gay marriage initiative by a whopping two to one majority. The anti-gay marriage vote there was taken as a jittery sign that some blacks out of…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

 It was never whether, but when President Obama would say yes to gay marriage. The tipoff that he’d back gay marriage came long before Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said yes to gay marriage. It came before legions of top Democrats said yes to gay marriage.…