right. that's why if you read the article, you'd notice that Coretta Scott King does not support that anti-marriage ideology. And I already pointed out that you didn't say it was brainwashing. read.
> I didn't say that they were brainwashed. I said that they were socialized.
> I meant that if you come from a society in which the church and what it
> says are important -- which I imagine would be especially the case for
> blacks given the church's role in the civil rights struggle and the
> REVEREND King -- you are likely to take what the church says seriously. On
> things like gay marriage or abortion, for example.
>
> Which isn't to say there aren't lots of other factors. I think this is
> kind of obvious though. To me anyway.
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> --- On Thu, 11/13/08, shag <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
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> in the CA gay marriage vote, Latinos supported the ban at 53%, blacks at
> 70%. Black women higher than men; higher income black women highest of
> all. it's more than just religion. more than just education, as Keith
> Boykin pointed out in that article.
> Moreover, when considering the very large difference between, for example,
> the Latino vote v the Black vote, what you (not you, you, but generic you)
> end up saying is that, somehow, blacks are magically brainwashed by their
> church. They completely lack the ability to look arond them and realize
> there are other views other there, apparently.
>
> In FL, btw, the highest black support for the ban was among 30-45, hardly
> an age group that lacks exposure to issues. They had slightly more support
> than older blacks. Considering that blacks in FL are largely concentrated
> in urban areas and didn't (by and large) participate in the rural south to
> urban north migrations youre' talking about, my guess is that there is
> much more at stake in terms of black identity than simply attributing it
> to ignorance, brainwashing, or age.
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