As a black man, this one bothers me a lot. The idea that just because gays aren't being sprayed with fire hoses and hung from trees, it isn't a civil rights issue? Ridiculous. Come on! 
Blacks should be more sympathetic to this cause. The very same chapters in the Bible that were used to keep them in slavery are the ones that condemn homosexuality. And interracial marriage! SAME ONES!
Civil rights issues are about scope. There are gay people being physically threatened, bullied, and harassed every day. Marriage is a right that is taken away from gays for no rational reason. 'We don't like it,' is not a valid reason to deny someone rights. Same sex marriage doesn't affect hetero-marriage in the slightest. Allowing gays to marry does not decrease the number of heterosexual people, or their desire or ability to marry each other. It does not decrease the number of children born to loving families. In fact, it creates more loving families in which children can be cared for.
Every argument that I have heard against gay marriage boils down to, 'eww.'
Blacks should be more sympathetic to this cause. The very same chapters in the Bible that were used to keep them in slavery are the ones that condemn homosexuality. And interracial marriage! SAME ONES!
Civil rights issues are about scope. There are gay people being physically threatened, bullied, and harassed every day. Marriage is a right that is taken away from gays for no rational reason. 'We don't like it,' is not a valid reason to deny someone rights. Same sex marriage doesn't affect hetero-marriage in the slightest. Allowing gays to marry does not decrease the number of heterosexual people, or their desire or ability to marry each other. It does not decrease the number of children born to loving families. In fact, it creates more loving families in which children can be cared for.
Every argument that I have heard against gay marriage boils down to, 'eww.'
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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