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Morality politics theory predicts that gay rights policy will reflect the influence of religious groups, party competition, and partisanship while interest group theory suggests that these policies will correspond with interest group resources, elite values, and past policy actions. Using multiple regressions on a 50-state data set and a county-level data set for gay rights initiatives in Oregon and Colorado, it was found that gay and lesbian politics are no different from those for other policy issues. When gay and lesbian rights are not salient, the pattern of politics resembles that of interest group politics. If individuals opposed to gay and lesbian rights are able to expand the scope of conflict, the pattern of politics conforms to morality politics.

Haider-Markel, Donald P., and Kenneth J. Meier. “The Politics of Gay and Lesbian Rights: Expanding the Scope of the Conflict.” The Journal of Politics. Vol. 58, No. 2. Cambridge University Press, May 1996. Journal. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2960229

This article uses responses from almost seven thousand blacks and forty-three thousand whites in 31 surveys conducted since 1973 to give more definitive answers on black-white attitudinal differences and their demographic roots. Despite their greater disapproval of homosexuality, blacks' opinions on sodomy laws, gay civil liberties, and employment discrimination are quite similar to whites' opinions, and African Americans are more likely to support laws prohibiting antigay discrimination.

Lewis, Gregory B. “Black-White Differences in Attitudes toward Homosexuality and Gay Rights.” Vol. 67, Issue 1. American Association for Public Opinion Research, 2011. Print. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/content/67/1/59.short#cited-by

In this book, the author examines the connections, both formal and informal, that arose among gay employee networks in the early to mid 1990s, tracing the growth and development of this foundation up to the present day. The author focuses on two things: explaining the institutional and movement processes by which widely dispersed workplace activists became linked to one another; and highlighting the resources, structures, and strategies that arose from these same underorganized linkages.

Raeburn, Nicole C. Changing corporate America from Inside Out: Lesbian and Gay Workplace Rights. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Page 275. Print. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=114261219