To me, the basic difference with civil rights for minorities and talking about civil rights for homosexuals can be discussed in terms of what rights of people are being violated.
For example, in the Jim Crow South, blacks were discriminated against in various ways. Are homosexuals discriminated against in fundamental ways, such as being denied the right to vote, freedom of speech, public accomodations, etc. ?
The movement for homosexual marriage, to me, is not so much about someone’s civil rights as it is a movement to change the definition of marriage.
Under existing marriage laws, we all have the same rights. We are limited to opposite sex partners. We are limited to one partner at a time. We are banned from marrying certain close relatives, etc. The same standards apply to homosexuals there as anyone else.
I understand a homosexual man doesn’t want to marry a female, but he has that right.
Homosexuals are not, and have not, been discriminated against in the same manner as racial/ethnic minorities. Yet we’re being told by the liberals, the media, etc. that it is a core violation of civil rights if we don’t allow homosexual marriage.
Thank-you very much for clarifying the differences. You should have a conservative talk show.
You are 100% correct. This is nothing but an attempt to maim marriage for hundreds of millions of people, because marriage powerfully points to what is normal sexual orientation and not paraphilic and disordered, which is the point that has galled them about marriage from the start.
"If we don't want to marry, then we're going to cheapen your marriage vindictively."
The only thing that frosts them more is churches' refusal to remove Leviticus, I Corinthians, and Genesis 19-20 (the story of Sodom) from the Bible, so they're going to try to pull preachers down from their pulpits and silence them on these texts.