When a court-ordered dump of National Organization for Marriage documents revealed a political strategy aimed at exacerbating cultural tensions between blacks and homosexuals, it wasn’t only homosexual activists who noticed — black pastors did, too.
The memo to NOM’s board of directors described a project designed to “drive a wedge between gays and blacks — two key Democratic constituencies.” The strategy was to “find, equip, energize and connect African-American spokespeople for marriage, develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots….”
“We contend that this is a racist ploy,” Brown said. “It is divisive, but it was birthed, it was created by, white evangelicals who have shown themselves to be duplicitous and contradictory in their stances.”
Notice: The comment emphasizes white evangelicals. The result of deliberately fostering antagonisms has backfired, then: The NAACP has endorsed same-sex marriage, benefiting homosexuals, and the strategy has ratcheted-up long-standing tensions between white and black churches.
As Winston Churchill once so famously said, only a fool tries to ride a tiger and expects to not get eaten. QED, NOM.
