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Originally Posted by sigmadiva
So point out to me where gays have experienced the exact same mistreatment as Blacks? As I asked earlier, were there or are there separate water fountains for gays?
It is trivializing the Black experience. Have gays in this country been forced into slave labor? Were gay families broken up and sold as property? Have gays been denied the right to vote soley because they were gay?
I feel that homosexuality is a choice because it has not been proven otherwise, i.e. a gay gene.
I dodge the church/state issue because for me it is an impass. I don't think one side will ever convince the other, so why discuss it.
Again, gay people have not been mistreated under the law. Gay people don't get longer jail time or have to pay higher taxes just because they are gay.
I agree with this and I bolded the part of the point I'm trying to make.
If you want to make the argument for gay marriage do so - just find a different basis than 'separate but equal'. Separate but equal sought to restore and give rights to Blacks where those rights were taken away. Nothing has been taken away from gays.
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What planet are you on? The right to marry has been taken away, the very same right that Loving -v- Virginia stated was a basic human right.
And gay people have been mistreated under the law, until very recently in some states it was a crime punishable by jail time for a gay couple to make love.
You need for there to be a "gay" gene for it to be proven that being gay isn't a choice? Well, there is no "black" gene, so being black must be a choice, right?
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