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Originally Posted by willravel
What a wonderful opinion that I completly disagree with because of my set of morals. The difference between you're treatment of gays and past treatment of african-americans is negligable when taking into account what is socially acceptable in both different time frames. BTW, how many gay bashings are there every year?
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will -
Beyond the aspect of morals, the point alansmithee is trying to make, that biology defines black people and decision defines gay people is false. He bases this distinction on the ability to recognize a black person visually and not recognize a gay person visually. To which the obvious response is: put a black person in a closet (literally) and other than the possibility of distinguishing speech patterns borne from environment, you would never be able to determine the black persons race. The facts remain: black people are distinguished by chemical differences in their skin, gay people are distinguished by chemical differences in their brain (as has been pointed out in this thread). We can see the chemical differences in skin when we walk down the street. We can see the chemical differences in the brain when we analyze MRIs. As Gilda also pointed out, there are no actions performed by homosexuals that are unique to homosexuals, as alansmithee would like to believe. So although alansmithee would like to claim that the civil rights movement is being subverted by homosexuals and their defenders, his basis for this opinion is illogical. In actuality, it is his desire to see a difference where there is none that is the subversion of the civil rights movement.