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I find it hard to believe that ...most blacks are "outraged" ...I've never even seen a poll of a turly REPRESENTATIVE number of black people on the subject. Even a poll of one thousand black Americans is not enough to tell you, definitively, how black Americans feel.



For many blacks, gay fight isn't theirs: Civil rights analogy is widely discounted

    A national Gallup Poll last month found that more than half of African Americans favored a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

    A Los Angeles Times exit poll showed higher percentages of African Americans than whites or Asian Americans voted for Proposition 22, the 2000 initiative that defined marriage in California as between a man and a woman.

    And a Field Poll of California voters last month, taken after San Francisco began offering same-sex marriage certificates, suggested that African Americans resist gay marriage and endorse a constitutional amendment against it by wider margins than other ethnic groups.

    Among African Americans, there is "a great deal of ambivalence about the issue of gay marriage, if not in fact hostility toward it," said Los Angeles author and political commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson.

    "It really comes down to a sense of family," he added, "that, in fact, this could be a threat to the black family."