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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
Homosexuality isn't a political issue at all. The political issue comes into play when people like you see homosexuals as second class citizens not worthy of equal protection of rights as heterosexual citizens.
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Considering gay marriage is now an issue on many state ballots, where one is asked to vote for or against it, then yeah, it got to be pretty political at that point.
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Your statements about how a white homosexual male could never be as oppressed as you is quite bold as well. In all seriousness, how the hell do you know? Everyone's journey is different in life and not everyone can "hide under the radar" like you assume they can or even choose to do. I really don't want to get into the Oppression Olympics here but I personally have gay friends that have been disowned from their families, have been forced out of their careers, have been arrested, have been gay-bashed so bad that they were hospitalized all based solely on their sexuality so your comment about how none of these individuals know oppression really ANNOYS me.
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It has been a while since I had to take a US history and US government class, but as far as I remember, I never read or came across any moment in US history from the early - mid 1600's to today, where gays were forced into servitude just because they were gay. Nor do I recall any law needing to be passed to allows gays the right to vote because they were denied the right to vote simply because they are gay.
I agree with you on what you said above. Those are examples of oppression. But, when I see White gays hold up banners with pictures from the 1960's Black Civil Rights Movement trying to proclaim that they have suffered the same fate, that I don't buy.
I'm not saying that there have not, and are not, clear instances where someone has been oppressed simply because they are gay. What I'm saying is there has never been in the history of this Nation such a systematic and at a period of time forced by law, oppression of gays to the same extent experienced by Black people in this country.