BREAKING: League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Passes Same-Sex Marriage Equality

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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/06/league_of_united_latin_american_citizens_lulac_passes_same-sex_marriage_equality_resolution.php




Another Saturday, another national group of brown people proves Toure right by being homophobic passes a same-sex marriage equality resolution.
LULAC, the League of United Latino American Citizens, passed a resolution at their annual convention today in suport of equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, the group just tweeted. They join the National Council of La Raza (another national Hispanic group) and the NAACP (the nation's oldest civil rights group) in issuing such a resolution.

With all three groups supporting same-sex marriage, it's definitive, absolute proof that Barack Obama blew the black and Latino votes when he came out for same-sex marriage two months ago. Much as we predicted, it was bullshit to think that blacks and Latinos, who had supported the president so much in 2008, were going to dump him because of his support of gay rights. The belief that blacks and Hispanics are anti-gay has largely been overblown; differences in racial attitudes to same-sex marriage are routinely trumped by differences in age, education, and rural/urban location. As we wrote last year, every black and Hispanic state senator except for Rev. Sen. Ruben Diaz voted for the Marriage Equality Act here in New York; still, even though it was only white senators who voted against it, the myth that blacks and Hispanics are to blame for a lack of gay rights continues.

With the NAACP and nearly all elected black public officials supporting Obama on gay rights, and with Obama's embrace of a DREAM Act workaround for immigration reform plus the endorsement of the major Hispanic-Latino organizations on his gay rights stance, it's hard to see how Mitt Romney plans to peal off many black, gay or Latino voters.