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Originally Posted by alansmithee
I had decided to leave this thread alone, but I had to respond to this. Homosexuals are a minority group, if you define a minority group as a group that is not in the majority. This would also make athletes, ivy league school students, athiests, vegetarians, farmers, and any other group defined by their actions into minorities. It is odious and disturbing to me that people compare the race struggles to the supposed gay rights issues. Where are gays being persecuted? What rights don't they have that everyone else has?
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I'm pretty sure gay marriage is only legal in Vermont, which makes gay marriage illegal in 49 states. Also, many major churches have made it their mission to "educate" the public about how immoral and evil homosexuality is in God's eyes. Have you ever seen a gay couple walking down the street holding hands and acting even a little bit like a couple? They get dirty looks from a lot of people, and are treated with disrespect.
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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Not everyone loves the idea of homosexual sex. And now people are trying to equate that to the Jim Crow era south? This comparison is one of the most asinine things I have seen. What next? Comparing people who don't like homosexuality to Nazi's? Yeah, just the other day I was leading a group of gays to a gas chamber  .
I can't believe people now have so little respect for the trials of blacks and other minorities in America that they would try to compare those struggles to "gay rights". The ability of many liberals to now trivialize the work of early civil rights pioneers is disgusting. |
The fact is that we live in a different world that existed durring the time of slavery. There have been advances. Thankfully, most people understand that racial bigotry is wrong, or at least they are exposed to such morals. In the currrent social climate, there are people who are regarded as less than equal. Those people just happen to be homosexual. When guy44 made his apt comparison, he mentioned white people said that black men were inherently lustful. So lustful that they couldn't control themselves. Then he compared it directly to claims from sexual bigots that homosexuals are so lustful they can't control themselves. The comparison deals with groups that are being activly worked against by lwas and society, and the comparison can't be coincedence. It doesn't trivialize civil rights, it celebrates their one success, and predicts the success of those same civil rights groups over this newer form of bigotry against homosexuals.