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Same-Sex Marriage & the African-American Community

By Robert Justin Lipkin

One of the saddest features of the controversy over same-sex marriage, in my estimation, is the African-American community’s overwhelming opposition to legitimizing this practice. Despite the critical constitutional decision in Loving v. Virginia banning laws against miscegenation which in one sense lies at the core of the struggle for civil rights, many African-Americans simply reject [...]

Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on March 10, 2009 (boomark / email).