National Protests against True Marriage

Statistics show substantial support in the African American and Latino communities for the defense of true marriage as between one man and one woman and against efforts to redefine it.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - On Sunday, November 16, 2008 advocates of homosexual "marriage" sponsored rallies throughout the United States. Included in the protests were gatherings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. The protests came as a result of the success achieved by the defenders of true marriage in ballot initiatives in California, Arizona and Florida.

All of those initiatives were successful.

In San Francisco, a center of homosexual activism, the crowd was particularly boisterous. Borrowing a rallying cry from the Civil Rights and Peace movements they shouted "What do we want? Marriage. When do we want it? Now!"

In New York, proponents of the effort to give legal equivalency between homosexual partnerships and true marriages gathered in Manhattan. They carried signs which read "Love and Unity not hate," "All we need is love" and "yes, we will".

In Los Angeles, the crowd was met by counter protestors who were equally as adamant in their opposition to the effort to redefine marriage in the law. One counter protestor yelled "There is nothing civil about a man marrying another man" and another "You lost. It is not a civil rights issue. It is an issue with morality." The proponents of giving equal status to homosexual partners and true marriages shouted back "Gay, straight, black, white; marriage is a civil right."

However, the statistics behind the passage of the initiatives defending True Marriage shows a weakness in the attempted comparison. Those statistics show substantial support in the African American and Latino communities for the defense of true marriage as between one man and one woman and against efforts to redefine it.

A majority within the African American community does not support the effort to redefine marriage. That same majority rejects the effort to draw an analogy between those who engage in homosexual sexual activity and those who are members of a racial or ethnic minority.

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