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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
explain how you are a "second class citizen"? are you being made to sit at the back of the bus? do you have to drink from a different water fountain? are there "gay only" bathrooms somewhere that i am not aware of?
or... are you claiming that the SINGLE issue of gay marriage equates to "second class citizen"? if i was a black person, i would be deeply offended by your making light of what they suffered through and incorrectly comparing your inconvienence to their plight.
i doubt many who are not as overly emotional about the issue would agree.
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First of all, I'm not gay, I'm a well off strait white American citizen, so I'm not being persecuted.
Different rights for different kinds of people = different classes of people. It's as simple as that. We should all have the same rights and freedoms. Denying gays or anyone else ANY right that the majority has makes a second class.
Obviously I don't think gays face the same kind of injustice that blacks once did. That doesn't mean that this isn't also a civil rights issue. No one in their right mind, black or white, thinks that considering the gay rights movement a civil rights struggle is making light of the 60's civil rights movement. That movement was about equal rights for everyone, and so is this one. It's an obvious comparison and you just deny that because you have to make yourself think that your feelings on this issue are logical and not hate/fear based, which they are, because that can be the only reason a person wants other groups of people to have limited rights. It's not a matter of "moral values" or any other smokescreen people use to attempt to conceal their prejudices
Although I do agree with Stephen Colbert that they shouldn't be allowed to get driver's licenses.