Peer Pressure for Marriage Equality  Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in
the Atlantic that if anti-gay marriage groups want to sway
American culture, maybe they should recruit some MCs.  Michael
N. Todaro/Getty Images  This week was a big one for marriage
equality, thanks to President Barack Obama's announcement of
support for gay marriage. Following in his footsteps was Jay-Z,
hip-hop's leader of sorts, and then T.I., among others,
including boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Ice Cube. Ta-Nehisi
Coates of the Atlantic says that opposition to gay marriage
never actually ran that deeply in America in the first place.
The other day someone mentioned that opposition to marriage
equality, while widespread, was thin. In other words, if you
asked posed same-sex marriage to someone, initially, they'd
oppose it. But it isn't the sort of issue that most people are
really going to wage war, unless you truly believe 1.) Gay
marriage is an offense to God. 2.) That government should follow
that dictate ...  Finally, prejudice is a ki