Prop 8- A Color Issue?

I guess, maybe I was a little naive to the fact that African American's would have a opinion specifically about the latest Prop 8 issues.  I just believed that if a person had issues on the topic, it wouldn't be based on race it'd be just because of their opinions, religion or what ever they used to constitute how they felt.   

For me.   Gays should be able to be married, they are humans, and should have that right.  I feel people use dumb arguments when trying to explain why they are against it, my personal favorite: "God believes it's a Sin."  Silly me, but I was raised to believe God made us and knows what he was doing when he created us, so I believe God made people homosexual for a reason and wouldn't hate them. (if that makes sense) So with that argument I guess you have to think of Nurture vs. Nature, where people born gay, or did they learn to be gay through society-- I believe your born homosexual or heterosexual. 

The other argument that I believe is dumb is gays shouldn't get married because it's not constitutional or whatever.  I don't think that the consitution needs to be rewritten to include homosexuals and marriage, but i feel under the consitition, it's their right, and to deny them is like overturning everything we fought so hard for.   

The last argument is that it devalues the union of marriage to let a same sex couple get married-- yet heterosexual people cheat on each other everyday.  They are married have affairs, have kids out of wedlock out of the home, and divorce each other at rapid amounts, so really it's not like the institution of marriage is the greatest in the first place. 

I think homosexuals need the right to be married because, I am again, pro gay adoption.  I look at examples in my life, one key one being a friend of mine who had six siblings.  His mother was a drug addict, thats why he had so many siblings, and the drugs made her an unfit parent.  In order for the kids not to be split up, his uncle adopted all of them and raised them as his own, with his partner.  These kids are some of the most well behaved, mannerable and smart kids I'd ever met, but because their adoptive parents were gay they didn't get all the same rights.  I remember uncle died, and his partner got nothing and they had been together over 20 years.  Examples like this lead me to believe that gays need rights.  If they were married everyone gets rights, plus, just because you are gay doesnt mean your going to have a gay child.  I think interracial adoption creates more of a confusion with kids, example being, one black girl who i don't like (sorry to state that) she's African and was adopted by a white family.  Despite having skin the color of coal, she believes she's white, she has a weave that's too nappy from new growth, and just the things she says lead me to believe she forgot she was black, I digress.  

The point was, after looking at a link on Twitter about Blacks and their opinions on Prop 8, i realize people realize it's different.  I wanted to include some of the opinions here: 

Michelle Taylor, 49. "I think we should be more open and supportive.  People are entitled to happiness in their union.  I don't want to hold them against it." 

Carmen Jackson, 49.  "God made woman and man and put them on the earth produce.  Not woman and woman and man and man"

Tawana Smith, 36. "What we're talking about is a civl issue not a religious issue.  So, if we just keep it at that we have a separation of church and state in our government-- this is again a separation of church and state.  So, if you don't want a marriage in your church that's completely different than a civilly sanctioned marriage that allows the financial privileges and property rights, and things like that.  I do support gay marriage, love is love; I don't care. " 

Monet Knight, 43. “Well, originally I do respect the standards that God created for us, but the world that we live in and the evolving changes that are taking place -— I think that there is some need to open up to the topic and I think there is a need to open up to the admittance that love is universal between men and women, women and women, and men and men -— I’m not going to deny that. So, I’m open to it, I’m kind of balanced to it, I still have old values, but I’m not totally left field with it.”

Katrina Groover, 45. “I think we should open it up. Not just between men and women, but consenting adults for sure. I support gay marriage -— sure I do.”

Sherma Reid, 40. “We should be open. It’s a matter of somebody’s opinion —- what they like, what they don’t like —- we should be open. Once these folks do whatever they do, that’s about them. Whatever makes them happy. Absolutely, not a problem.”

Hilda Thompson, 46. “I think we should be more supportive. I mean the world is made up of all kinds of people, all walks of life, all religions, and I think people should have freedom of expression and love whomever they please. I think love is the bottom line. If the person you love makes you happy and adds to your life and makes you a better person which in turn adds to the world, I say sure.”

@strawberrytopp: "freeeee love." 

@classicdaisy: every human deserves the right to love no matter what orientation, race, or creed.

Quotes minus twitter, via Essence Magazine Online