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The Rev. Eugene Rivers, head of the National Ten Point Leadership Foundation, joined with Catholic leaders to launch radio ads that insist same-sex marriage is about ``special rights,'' not civil rights.

But although blacks were denied equality under the law, the civil rights movement was about special rights -- quotas, reparations, and such. MLK opposed racialism -- for about five minutes, in August, 1963. The rest of the time he supported racial rights, including in the same speech. And so, I think it's perfectly legitimate for homosexuals to call themselves a "civil rights" movement.

I am not an expert, but wasn't the whole 1965 voting rights act about securing the intent of the 15th Amendment for blacks? I mean, there were real problems, so I understand (I am not that old) with blacks realizing their equal representation rights because some officials were deluting or otherwise denying them their voting rights. I realize there are many false claims of racism today, but you do not need to go too far back in our history to realize that blacks were in fact treated unfairly on issues as basic as their voting rights. The bias was so obvious. They had separate bathrooms for gosh sakes.

Equating the history and struggles of a people who were treated differently solely because of their skin pigmentation to the history of the natural function of culture to order itself with taboos against certain immoral behaviors is like saying zero is equal to infinity simply because they are both numbers.