OBAMA PRESSURED BY BLACK GAY MARRIAGE OPPONENTS: Group warns he'll lose support from African Americans over DOMA.

      The coalition, which includes the veteran civil rights the group Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Concerned African-American Pastors and other religious organizations, is particularly worried about Obama’s intentions regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

      The Act is federal law enacted in the late 1990s which defines marriage as only occurring between a man and a woman thus excluding unions between persons of the same sex. Gay activist groups have been pressuring the Obama administration to work to change or weaken the Act. However, in its letter, the Black coalition asserts, “Changing the definition of marriage will have many unintended consequences which will hurt generations to come.”

      Meanwhile, a question remains as to how effectively the Coalition can deliver on its warning to undermine the president’s support base. Most major civil rights groups either support much of the gay rights agenda or remain officially neutral on the issue of homosexual marriage. And CORE, while a veteran group in the Civil Rights Movement, has become increasingly conservative in recent years and has largely been pushed to the fringes of the modern civil rights effort. (source: Taylor Media Services)