Short answer is that I don't think many black people in general ever supported sexualization of children, but it's taking a while for black Christians to wake up to what's going on because of their undying love for Obama and/or dislike of Trump and Republicans
Here's the long answer:
I'll try to find the statistic, but prior to Obama being president a solid majority of African Americans were against gay marriage, more so than whites, and that flipped after Obama changed his views on gay marriage. It's really a mixed bag. In 2007
Obama was criticized by gays for having gospel singer and minister Donnie McClurkin associated with his campaign. Donnie is known for his ministry to gay people who wish to leave that lifestyle. That's something Donnie himself had to struggle with because he was molested as a child. I can't find the video, but I remember seeing Donnie explain to gospel artist Yolanda Adams that he agreed with Obama changing gay marriage as a "civil rights issue" but he (Donnie) maintained his same position that it wasn't right in the eyes of God. And how did Obama award him for this? Well....Donnie was dis-invited from singing at the 50th anniversary of the MLK March On Washington.
At that same event Baynard Rustin, an openly gay lieutenant of MLK who's largely credited with Dr. King adopting a 100% non violent stance in the Civil Rights Movement (before Rustin, Dr. King had armed deacons for security guards and one could argue that Rustin got king killed), was honored for his role in the Civil Rights Movement.
TBH I hadn't heard of Rustin until I saw him profiled on PBS back in the 1990s.
He did famously debate Malcolm X.
Now, you specifically asked me about the trend of sexualizing kids. I would say most black people aren't fully aware of what's going on. I mentioned this in another response to you in a different thread. Here's a recap:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...ition-minors&p=7230648&viewfull=1#post7230648
True story. So when I first met my now ex-wife and her family back in 1998, I thought they were really homophobic. Like they would talk about the "gay agenda" and how Disney secretly pushing gay and sexual messages in their movies and all of that. I was pretty liberal then. I supported ending the ban on sodomy laws because I don't want to know what other people are doing in their bedroom. (Seems like these days certain people want everybody to know what they are doing in their bedroom.) I was okay with ending the ban on gays in the military because I had no intention of joining the military. When it came to gay marriage, I was okay with that until I went to law school and had to read the IRS vs Bob Jones University case. That's the case where BJU lost it's tax except status for having a ban on interracial dating. The holding was since SCOTUS had struck down separate but equal, congress had passed the CRA and President Truman had desegregated the military, all 3 branches of government had decided segregation was against public policy. (After they lost they just banned all dating on campus period). That case greatly concerned me because the SDA church operates a lot of colleges and universities and they all follow the traditional view on sexuality and marriage. About that time Obama had repealed don't ask don't tell. (Branch 1) Sometime later SCOTUS struck down DOMA. (Branch 2). And there was language barring discrimination against transgenders in medicine in Obamacare. (Branch 3). Back to my former in-laws. Four years ago when we were all together for my sons graduating college I overheard them talking to each other about how "terrible" it is that Trump was trying to take away transgender rights to healthcare. This was the first I heard of that and I wasn't sure what that meant. But I bet they thought it was about whether or not a transgender having a heart attack would be turned away form the hospital. I didn't argue with them, but I was thinking "I bet there's more to it than that." Sure enough, within a year I heard of a case of a "transman" suing a Catholic hospital for not doing a hysterectomy because the hospital said it didn't want to be involved in any gender affirming surgeries. I've never asked my ex or her family what they thought about that. At that same graduation event a pastor who is married to one of my exes sisters wanted to talk to me about politics because I guess he wanted to "set me straight" about being a "republican" and a "Trump supporter." I am neither but I get accused of that all of the time because in some circles if you aren't lining up to kiss the donkey's ass and/or if you don't totally despise Trump (and despite what some here think, I don't hate the man), then you must be a Trump supporter. Finally I asked the pastor "You have a daycare with your church right? How would you feel if the feds told you that you have to hire an openly gay teacher?" Boom! i had him! He hadn't thought about that. (Actually religious schools are allowed to discriminate in hiring of teachers because they are the same as hiring clergy and that falls under the same "ecclesiastical exception" that excempts churches form the CRA when dealing with clergy.) Anyhow, I have transgender relatives. If any of the were having a heart attack I'd want them to be able to go to any hospital and have treatment. But that is not what Obama was pushing or is being pushed now.
/long rant
I
HONESTLY think that my ex-wife and in-laws were looking at Trump trying to undermine "trans healthcare" in the Affordable Care Act as being about transgenders getting heart transplants or cancer treatment. I don't think they were even thinking about gender affirming care for adults, let alone
children. I post a lot of comments on Newsbreak.com stories on the issue and the negative responses I get are 1) puberty blockers are just a "pause" and cause no other harm (not true as puberty blockers cause osteoporosis and may cause cancer) 2) not children are surgically altered (not true as trans influencer Jazz Jennings' penis was cut off at 16) and 3) parents and doctors should be able to make that decision (odd because many of these same people freaked out at those who didn't want to take experimental vaccines). I think most people aren't educated on the issue. But even with that
70% of Americans are against trans care for children . That's a super majority. That same poll shows 75% of Americans are against teaching about gender identity in grades K-5 although a majority support teaching about it at the high school level.
When I bring up among most black religious people I know that Biden is trying to force Christian hospitals to provide gender affirming treatment to minors, most are either appalled or at the very least silenced. It's almost every other week were I hear at least
somebody in the black religious community say that "If Trump gets back in office it's the end of our freedom" or "I can't understand how any Christian could support Trump" and I bring this issue up to suggest that Biden is 1) a tyrant (after all he's trying to force this on Christian hospitals) and 2) not a real Christian. I usually end with "Don't support either candidate or either party but put your trust in Jesus" and no real Christian can argue with that.
