Edited sentence: In addition, African Americans typically perceive gay mariage as a middle-aged white female phenomena.Instead, it requires those feelings to be repressed.It is not a threatening feeling, rather it's a feeling of aversion.Men who are called "homophobic" have their own feelings, and they should have the right to speak about their feelings.The aversion they feel is based on the conduct they have experienced around some homosexuals, whether it's a "perceived" effrontery in a gay pride parade, or personally witnessing forms of inhospitality as described in the Genisis account of Sodom.The politics surrounding the issue of gay-rights says it is not politically correct to have unpleasant feelings regarding those past experiences which are real.This a generality against white males, as Fred Phelps, a white male, received an award from the NAACP as a civil rights attorney that helped overturn Jim Crowe laws in Kansas