. . .  when a group of black pastors urges civil disobedience against the recent SCOTUS ruling on gay “marriage”?

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/bill-owens-caps-gay-marriage/2015/06/27/id/652541/?ns_mail_uid=5388816&ns_mail_job=1626573_07042015&s=al&dkt_nbr=hlkry56w

Accusations of “racism” have long been the weapon of choice for marginalizing and silencing conservative dissent.  But charges of “homophobia” have gained tremendous popularity in recent years.  And they’re very much the rage at the moment.

So how should a good leftist react who wants to remain securely in the middle of the Herd of Independent Thinkers when he or she is faced with a black group needing to be crushed for its supposed hatred of gays?

In the case of California’s Proposition 8 (aka “Proposition H[8]”), which both Mormons and blacks supported by substantial margins, it proved feasible — in fact, surprisingly easy — to simply ignore black support for that measure and to pretend, as one propaganda video expressed it, that it was merely “The Mormon Proposition.”

Attacking religions and religious people isn’t a serious problem for the secular Left.  In fact, attacking a relatively unpopular and weak religious minority perceived as white, patriarchal, corporate, and generally retrograde is just so darn gratifying that doing so is probably fun even in the absence of a specific grievance.

But will that strategy remain effective?

Can the secular Left continue to pretend that black Christianity doesn’t exist on this issue?

Only time will tell.

Unfortunately, though, the consequences of misjudging the situation could be extremely dire, socially and in other respects, for progressives who want to stay in fashion.

It would be like wearing a wide tie when, suddenly, narrower ties have been decreed back in style; or not owning an Aritzia handbag; or being a loyal member of the Communist Party USA but, having missed the memo ordering an about-face, continuing to denounce Hitler even after the party line had changed in the wake of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939.

Which priority will triumph?  Racial justice, as progressives conceive it, or sexual liberation?

These are perilous times for the politically correct.

That’s good.

Posted from Carlsbad, California