This morning's San Jose Mercury News had a dismaying and perplexing image on its front page. With the defeat of the repeal of Prop 8, gay marriage has been certifiably defeated in California. The image on the newspaper was of a smug black guy (Chauncey Killens) relishing that the word of god had been followed, with some exasperated woman trying, vainly, to argue about it.
Notwithstanding the merits of the larger issue, isn't there something troublingly ironic about a black guy reveling in a court decision to restrict the civil rights of a minority?
Does it ever cross his mind that without level-headed people interjecting on blacks' behalf against bible-toting slaveowners, he himself would be a trampled minority? Does he recognize the connection to the gay marriage issue?
I don't understand social conservatives. They're usually self-contradictory, but this example's especially egregious.
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