Melissa Harris-Perry: What Obamas evolution on same-sex marriage means for the country - Melissa Harris-Perry: What Obamas evolution on same-sex marriage means for the country -Melissa Harris Perry deals with the false assumptions expressed in the media that posit that African Americans are some how more homophobic than there white brethren. This of course is nonsense. African American churches have rarely stooped to the science denying ignorance of the dominant cultures evangelical brethren and the plain old fashioned bigotry that underlies their Calvinist theology.

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