CA Governor Hopeful Disparages Blacks for Supporting Marriage

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom may have just undermined his gubernatorial hopes in California by throwing pro-family blacks under the bus for supporing the state’s marriage amendment in the 2008 election.

The following MSNBC interview with Newsom quickly became an infomercial for making homosexuals out to be victims simply because their state does not celebrate their perversion by distorting marriage. Newsom then denigrates the black civil rights movement by trying to equate black skin with homosexual sin.

Dr. King’s dream was for an America that would judge its citizens by the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin. What King meant for good, Newsom means for evil, because he infers a person’s decision to engage in sexual immorality should be respected as much as a person’s skin color.

In an attempt to remind California’s blacks of the racist past (with a reference to the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education), Newsom uses condescending rhetoric against many black Democrats by claiming their support for marriage is like the “separate but equal” treatment blacks endured during the 60′s. Newsom then complains that blacks could have “participated to the extent they did” in “taking away rights” from homosexuals.

The interview is bound to threaten Newsom’s future aspirations. At the very least, his disdain for pro-family black Democrats will give pause to many who would have otherwise supported him for governor in 2010.