Gay Marriage Prevents Black Families

There’s an interesting theory regarding gay marriage that’s been circulating in various anti-gay spheres. In a nutshell, it goes like this: If gay people are allowed to marry, black men won’t marry the mothers of their children. This, according to proponents of this theory, means that gay marriage will lead to a further Breakdown of the Black Family ™.

What I find to be interesting about the use of this argument is that certain factions of predominately white anti-gays really like to advance this argument even though they do not discuss the unique issues facing “the black family” in any context other than how gay people will supposedly harm it.

The white “concerned” proponents of this theory usually fall into one of two camps: (1) Men’s Rights Advocates, and (2) “Marriage Defenders.”

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