[Caipirabob]

Gays are welcome into the party, as fellow men and women, not as homosexuals.

We do not recognize interest groups based upon sexual behavior. That is a subject best left in the bedroom and has no place in the public forum. They are not a minority deserving of special rights. I will not address them as to foster this delusion.

The Republicans, spineless as they are, realize the danger of recognizing "special rights" based upon personal sexual behavior and the risk it presents towards the persecution of everyone else who does not participate in the said sexual behavior.

They are "gay" because they have gay sex. Sex is an act and the method of sex is a specific behavior.

They are not a "race". They are not an "ethnic group". They are not born with an identifiable birth defect or distinct chromosome.

They are gay because they behave that way. Very different from a man who is black, white or asian because they were born black, white or asian.

You cannot recognize special rights for personal sexual behavior. It opens the door for others to claim special rights for any given behavior on the basis of "sinister birth" or other false claims.

Can someone be born with a sexual attraction for animals? Can someone be born a pedophile or arsonist? These are all behaviors that emerge later in life. Would recognizing special rights for gay give those folks grounds for claiming similar rights in their future? Don't be so sure it wouldn't.

It doesn't help that advancing "homosexual rights" is one of the stated planks of implementing communist goals via destruction of American society. This is entered in the congressional record Here you go...

[JohnnyZ]

Gays are welcome into the party, as fellow men and women, not as homosexuals.

We do not recognize interest groups based upon sexual behavior. That is a subject best left in the bedroom and has no place in the public forum. They are not a minority deserving of special rights.

QFT.

[Millers Cave]

You cannot recognize special rights for personal sexual behavior. It opens the door for others to claim special rights for any given behavior on the basis of "sinister birth" or other false claims.

Not every "protected" minority group is a result of birth. Religion is a very personal decision -- no one is born a Christian, etc. Yet we don't discriminate against people of minority religions, nor do we consider them to have special rights.A Buddhist may not be going to heaven, yet we don't kick them out of the party for their moral choices.

Blacks and other minorities don't have protected because they were "born" that way. They have protected status because they were systematically discriminated against because they were "born" that way.

And, as a libertarian, I'm not sure what is so "special" about the rights that gays want? To not be fired from their jobs?