Posts Tagged ‘ same sex relationship ’

Understanding Black Attitudes Toward Homosexuality

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By George E. Curry
Are African-Americans less supportive of homosexuality than other racial and ethnic groups? The answer is an emphatic yes. But the reasons have more to do with religion than race.



It Only Takes One

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By Lee A. Daniels
It only takes one.

It only takes one black American who has done something wrong – or has been accused of doing something wrong – and that special group of people comes charging out of the woodwork.

You know who I mean: those people – be they white, black or other – who seize on the flimsiest of straws to make wholesale negative ethnic-based generalizations about black people, black culture, black institutions.



Behind Bedroom Doors: Codifying Bigotry into Law

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By Stacey Patton
Ugandans don’t like homosexuals.

That simple phrase is a gross understatement to the country’s 500,000 gays and lesbians living in the heavily Muslim and Christian nation of 30 million, where 95% of the population opposes legalizing homosexual acts. The Ugandan parliament is trying to further crack down on the lives of gays and lesbians as it debates a draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill that would require its citizens to peep behind bedroom doors and tell on people who engage in “unnatural” consensual sex.