So, Maryland voted to recommit their marriage bill, assuring that it won't come up for a vote again in the foreseeable future - probably not until sometime next year. In the Maryland House of Delegates, the government body which held the vote, there are 98 Democrats and 43 Republicans. Somehow, a majority of those legislators teamed up to vote against marriage. White, black, woman, man, it was a majority coalition of antigay votes.
This is disturbing and hurtful. A lot of us have been outraged and inconsolable over the vote. Yet I'm seeing something at DailyKos that is inexcusable: the scapegoating of the black community for the passage of the motion to recommit. There is, simply put, no way this vote can be laid at the feet of the black community.