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Thank you for the link, but I don't see anything in there that contradicts the Washington Post claim that 7 out of 10 blacks supported Prop 8, making them bigots. He says that "exit polls suggest" that 6.2 out of 10 were bigots instead of 7 out of 10.
The point of all that is that support for Obama wasn't the reason Prop 8 passed. It wasn't so much black people as it was old people. Younger black people, younger people in general, and first-time voters (three of Obama's big demographics) vote by a large margin in favor of marriage equality. Prop 8 passed because of all the old people who voted for it, and older black people vote Democrat anyway and were always going to do so.
An important quote: " If California’s electorate had been the same as it was in 2004, Prop 8 would have passed by a wider margin."
And yes, I think people who take it upon themselves to vote against someone else's relationship are bigots. As a Minnesotan it was offensive that I was given this option in 2012. Who the hell am I to decide whether or not someone else's relationship is acceptable? Why is it my business? But let's call a spade a spade: the problem isn't black people, it's old people. Old people are against same-sex marriage more and they also vote more.
Or they did, anyway. That majority has, quite literally, died. All four votes on the issue went in favor of marriage equality in 2012. I don't expect any vote from here on out is going to go differently.