DIALOGUE: Will Blacks Cause "Civil War" if Gays Have Equality Under the Law?

“All hell is going to break lose. We may have a civil war. The black community is just adamant against this.” — former DC Mayor Marion Barry, the sole member of the DC City Council to vote against DC recognition of all marriages performed out of state, including marriages of gay couples.
The other 12 members of the DC City Council (6 Black and 6 White) and DC’s African-American Mayor Adrian Fenty supported the legislation, as did Marion Barry before he revoked his initial support in a surprise move.  Barry was accompanied by Bishop Harry Jackson, a pro-Bush, anti-Obama Black minister of a Maryland congregation who often serves as a front man for white evangelical organizations.
Are Bishop Harry Jackson and former Mayor Barry right that blacks are more homophobic than whites?
That it’s the African-American community that stands uniquely in the way of gay civil rights and marriage equality?
I find these implications to be insulting, wrong, and borderline racist.

Debate Monday

Debate Monday

Mark takes on the President of the Young Republican Alumni, Terry Campo, a former counsel to the US Senate Judiciary Committee and former Reagan Administration official.

• * What kind of Justice should sit on the Supreme Court?
• * What should be done to improve America’s health care system?
• * Should the District of Columbia have “states’ rights”?
  (representation in Congress, its own gun and marriage laws)
• * What should be done in Pakistan/Afghanistan?

Why Republicans Hate "Empathy"

And other qualities necessary to be a good Justice on the United States Supreme Court

Congratulations, Maine!

5 down, 45 (and DC) to go.