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FOX's Juan Williams warns Obama about pushing gay agenda
by Joseph Ernest June 27, 2011
Newscast Media HOUSTON, Texas -- Barack Obama's push for gay marriage has Fox News contributor Juan Williams worried about its ramifications on one of President Barack Obama's major constituencies, the black community. He explained why this issue is where the black community and the White House differ from each other.
"In the black community, people just can't understand Obama on this issue because there just is not the strength of support for any form of gay union, gay marriage, civil [unions]," Williams said. "That's what happened in California if you recall in terms of that referendum that sunk this effort in California. I don’t think the black community is going to walk away from President Obama on this but it is a fascinating dynamic to sit down with black ministers, black social leaders and talk about this. I mean they are back in the '50s on this subject."
In the community Williams explained that same-sex marriage is a threat to the black family according to some.
"To me, you know I think very threatening and socially upsetting to people – the black family is just in bad shape right now anyway," Williams said. "But the idea that you are giving the imprimatur of the church and of the society to two men marrying just doesn't make sense to a lot of people who are not technically your people – the conservatives."
However, Williams and the rest of the black community were fore-warned by Obama himself that he would be pushing the gay agenda. Obama even went as far as publishing his entire agenda and made this written promise to the gays.
Obama knows that 95 percent of black people will still vote for him regardless of how much he ignores the Black community, and instead cater to other communities. Obama has made no effort to bring down the rising unemployment numbers among Blacks despite receiving 95 percent of the Black vote.
Bush was accused of hating black people, an accusation that is unfounded and ludicrous, and if you look at Bush's unemployment numbers compared to Obama's, there is a huge gap. Bush also gave more money to Africa and third world countries to fight HIV/AIDS than any other president.
In May 2010, the Black unemployment rate under Obama was 15.5 percent, a year later in May 2011, the number is now at 16.2 percent. Under Bush during the same period in his first term, the number was at 10.9 percent, as shown here in this data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Kirsten Powers, also a FOX News contributor and columnist for the New York Post, advised gay marriage proponents not to compare same-sex marriage to civil rights.
"But it's also offensive to a lot of people in the black community," Powers said. "It pushes them away to compare this situation to what black people had gone through in this country, you know – to compare it to segregation and lynching and things like that. I think it’s a bad message for the gay community to be using."
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