blondboinsd;
I appreciate your comments so please don't take the following comments personally as they are meant to address the ruling which is the basis and context of this thread.
I may be in the minority in this thread in that I may be the only one who will take a stand against this issue, but stand against it I will at least on the following grounds.
Just because it's 2008 doesn't mean we drop what we believe in because society is changing and everybody else thinks it's right. Some may believe that 2 people loving each other regardless of their sexual orientation is enough and that people have a right to do what ever they want.
However do people really have a right to do what they want in society just because they want to? Some people think so. But It seems to me that If we accept anything that comes along as a right, (as is being argued by the live and let live part of society), what moral fiber shall our society ever have to deny organized chaos from other humans that believe in the rights they might claim under the rubrics of individual freedom and human rights?"
Many People feel that African Americans and homosexuals have a lot in common on the basis of civil rights. However in reality the gay and lesbian movement have frequently tried to cloak themselves in the civil rights movement for African Americans without recognizing the differences . . . and that has quite rightly been seen as offensive to people of color especially when such comparisons come from a group the media often portrays as affluent, male and white.
Have "Gay people been persecuted throughout history? Perhaps they have but that is nothing to compare to state-sanctioned centuries of oppression,"
Gays and lesbians have never needed separate restrooms, separate drinking fountains, are not being met by dogs and truncheons (and) are not being lynched, tared and feathered and have not been enslave for 400 years. That is a huge, profound difference,"
It is also evident that gay activists are "hijacking" the nation's civil rights movement; using hard-fought gains for racial minorities and women to justify an orientation many find morally repugnant.
"These same people are trying to hijack the moral capital of the black civil rights movement and use it to force society to affirm their behavior, regardless of other people's moral beliefs about it.
The bottom line? "Skin color or ethnicity involves no moral choices . . but how you conduct yourself sexually does," Having said that there are many who will not support this decision and will not stand by and applaud it.
I understand that many people will not come out and express their disagreement with this ruling because they feel they will have to take the heat from people who believe everyone has the right to do whatever they want just because they have the right to do it. Personally i don't agree and i wish people would just stop standing on the pedestal of civil rights as if it's some stepping stone to an approved condition from the rest of us. It just isn't.
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Originally Posted by blondboinsd
I feel that African Americans and homosexuals have alot in common in the fact that both have dealt with the cruel understanding that separate is never equal, so I made the comment in that context, take as you please. I'm referring to us being allowed civil unions vs marriage, reference to colored bathrooms vs white bathrooms, the list goes on and on....
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