Blacks’ support a surprise on same-sex marriage
The Washington Times ^ | 10 December 2012 | Hannah Morgan - Capital News Service
Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 8:17:43 AM by COBOL2Java
Same-sex marriage opponents counted black voters among their allies leading up to November’s election, expecting them to help overturn legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry in Maryland.
Polls in the months before November’s referendum on same-sex marriage seemed to back them up, with black residents showing less support than whites. But as the months wore on, opposition softened, especially in the face of endorsements from President Obama and prominent entertainers, as well as a media campaign that included clergy, athletes and other public figures.
By Election Day, voters in the state’s large, predominantly black jurisdictions — Baltimore and Prince George’s County — joined to support same-sex marriage by a 4-percentage-point margin. In Baltimore, same-sex marriage got 57 percent of the vote. In Prince George’s, where opposition was expected to be very strong, it got 49 percent of the vote.
Statewide, 54.2 percent of voters supported same-sex marriage.
Those results did not surprise many in the black community.
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No kidding - just following their tribal leader Chaka Obama to the ball washing station.
