Black Anti-Gay Protests Decline as Marriages ProceedHarrison Chastangbyline‚ Jun. 18‚ 2008There were not many Black people outside San Francisco City Hall Monday or Tuesday among the hundred or so folks in the crowd before the first same sex ceremonies were held in City Hall. Besides the few Black Civic Center Plaza “regulars,” the handful of Black people in the crowd were friends or relatives of couples getting marriage licenses. But it was a different scene outside City Hall four years ago when Newsom performed the first same sex marriages. Hundreds of protesters descended on City Hall, including a contingent of African American pastors from throughout the Bay Area ... |