Is Huffington Post driving a wedge between blacks and gays?

Huffington Post displayed a slide show of “some celebrities who’ve already made anti-LGBT statements.”  The celebrities that Huff Po considers anti-gay range from Kirk Cameron to 50 Cent. 

It is odd that they lump Cameron in with rude and crude personalities who curse and call names.   Cameron simply gave the scientific and statistically correct view that homosexuality is “unnatural.”  This is hardly hate-speech. 

But even more striking is that 7 of the 15 celebrities that Huffington Post chose to display are African Americans.  That's almost 50%.  Is Huff Po driving the wedge between gays and blacks even deeper? 

Living on the wedge 

The blacks that Huff Po quoted are:  Cee Lo Green, Isaiah Washington, Roland Martin, Chris Brown, Soulja Boy, Tracy Morgan, and 50 Cent. 

To see the slideshow:  scroll down the article titled “NOM Seeks ‘Glamorous’ But ‘Noncognitive’ Celebrities To Promote Its Anti-Gay Marriage Agenda.”

Also of interest, only one woman, former SNL star Victoria Jackson made it onto the list.

The slideshow is particularly surprising since Huff Po has devoted several articles decrying wedge politics and accusing NOM of fanning the “flames of hate” for reaching out to enlist help from minority groups to defend pro-gender marriage.  Doesn't this slideshow "fan the flames of hate"?

Or does it inadvertently prove that African Americans have opposed same-sex marriage long before the National Organization for Marriage enlisted their help?

Which came first: the SSM wedge or NOM?

Answer:  The wedge was already there.

Same-sex marriage activists are disturbed that the National Organization for Marriage reached out to enlist the help of minorities to defend pro-gender marriage. 

A recently released memo by NOM states, "The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks — two key Democratic constituencies."   Gender-segregationist Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry asserts that NOM "will stop at nothing to push its agenda, pitting American against American, minority against minority, family members against family members."

The elephant in the room is the big fat wedge that existed long before NOM came into existence to defend marriage from activists who want to change it entirely by removing the gender-integrated component.  Perhaps they believe that if they keep blaming NOM, no one will notice that it is same-sex marriage itself that pits American against American, creates a new minority of gender-segregated “married” couples, and divides families by deliberately preventing children from having a relationship with both a mother and a father.

Living on the wedge

Gender segregationists will be extremely disappointed when they finally realize how many wedges they created by advocating for separate marriage for genders.  There’s the wedge between evangelicals and the gay agenda.  The wedge between Catholics and gender-segregated “marriage.”  The wedge between parents and homosexual propaganda in school.  The wedge between businesses and their money when they are sued by monogender couples.  The wedge between freedom of religion, and coercing people of faith to obey new gender-segregating marriage laws.  The wedge between procreative biology, and the infertility of two “married” men.

Which came first, the pro-gender position or the wedge?

For millennia, people have honored gender integration in marriage.  Don’t blame NOM.  Gay rights activists are the ones pushing segregation.  The biggest wedge of all is separating men and women in marriage. 

House Republicans defend DOMA since DOJ won't

“The Department of Justice can’t cherry-pick what they choose to defend or don’t defend.”  Rep. Steven LaTourette

Democrats take issue with House Republicans for defending the law that the DOJ refuses to defend:  the Defense of Marriage Act, which requires gender integration in married couples.

Huffington Post reports:

The issue of the House defending DOMA rarely comes up for debate, so when it did on Tuesday, it brought with it some fiery exchanges. 

As Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) pressed Kirchner on why the House is defending an “unconstitutional law that separates all of us," Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio) jumped in and asked, "When is the Department of Justice going to do their job? You can't pick which laws you want to defend and which laws you don't feel like enforcing." 

Honda then said that defending DOMA is a waste of money that could be put to better use, such as for "resources to the family of Trayvon Martin in Florida." 

"Bill Clinton signed DOMA! It's the law of the land!" LaTourette shouted back. "The Department of Justice can't cherry-pick what they choose to defend or don't defend. It's costing more because the Department of Justice is in bed with the plaintiffs!"

NOM accused of using ‘fear and scare tactics’ for enlisting help from minorities

Are Democrats scared that their base is splintering over the controversial same-sex marriage issue?  Gay rights groups and young voters favor segregating genders in marriage, while minorities oppose it.  And marriage advocates are using this split to help them defend pro-gender marriage.

Documents dating from 2009 from the National Organization for Marriage claimed that Democrat leaders are "increasingly inclined to privilege the concerns of gay rights groups over the values of African-Americans."  NOM planned to help blacks voice their concerns about redefining marriage.

The Wall Street Journal quoted a NOM memo:

"Find, equip, energize and connect African-American spokespeople for marriage; develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots."

Gay rights activists have done exactly that—accused blacks of being prejudiced. African American pastor Nathaniel Thomas marched for “voting and housing rights and fought for equal protection for blacks.”  Now gay rights activists call him a "bigot" for supporting pro-gender marriage.  “This is a cultural war, a cultural shift, and those who are in rebellion have decided to portray us as bigots and prejudiced,” he said. 

Mainers United for Marriage campaign manager Matt McTighe was upset after reading about NOM’s plan to reach out to minorities to help defend pro-gender marriage.  McTighe accused NOM of “trying to use fear and scare tactics to turn people off.”

(You know what’s a scare tactic?  Calling a black civil rights activist a “bigot” for defending gender-integrated marriage.)

NOM president Brian Brown responded:

“The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) was formed in 2007 and has worked extensively with supporters of traditional marriage from every color, creed and background. We have worked with prominent African-American and Hispanic leaders, including Dr. Alveda C. King, Bishop George McKinney of the COGIC Church, Bishop Harry Jackson and the New York State Senator Reverend Rubén Díaz Sr., all of whom share our concern about protecting marriage as the union of one man and one woman. 

“Gay marriage advocates have attempted to portray same-sex marriage as a civil right, but the voices of these and many other leaders have provided powerful witness that this claim is patently false. Gay marriage is not a civil right, and we will continue to point this out in written materials such as those released in Maine. We proudly bring together people of different races, creeds and colors to fight for our most fundamental institution: marriage.”

Gay rights activists are outraged that African Americans have the audacity to think outside the Democrat box.  Do liberals think they own blacks' votes?

Video: Marriage Protection Amendment supporters speak up in North Carolina

Vote for Marriage NC urges residents to vote for the Marriage Protection Amendment on May 8 to defend pro-gender marriage.

The Marriage Protection Amendment: "Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State."