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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Thu Nov 6 16:37:12 2008, in response to Re: Gay protest in LA, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Nov 6 11:19:08 2008. I seiously beg to differ with you. Gay marriage is an issue of the same depth and meaning as interracial marriage was in the Sixties. The SCOTUS heard Loving vs. Virginia in 1967 and settled the issue by legalizing interacial marriage as a Constitutionally protected activity under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.Relegating gays and lesbians to second-class citizenship by denying them the right to marry is every bit as abhorrent to the principles of democracy and equality as Jim Crow-era laws were, in making people of color "less than". People of color didn't "compromise" during the Sixties on human rights. Gays shouldn't accept compromise today, for the same reasons. |
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