Quote Originally Posted by Lee View Post
But Squirt, they arent similar by any stretch of the imagination, thats my point, plus we arent talking about the religious zealots are we, we're talking about 'real' people who realize that stories in a 1000 year old book arent actually 'gospel'

Regards,

Lee

Lee, they absolutely ARE similar. Just because you can't tell by looking at someone that they are gay does NOT mean that gays do not suffer very similar discrimination based on something they HAVE NO CONTROL OVER. Black people didn't choose to be born black, nor did gays choose to be born gay. In that respect, they are EXTREMELY comparable.

Also, while gays do not have their own bathrooms and water fountains, they absolutely do suffer other forms of discrimination EVERY DAY.

You might not see gay people hanging from trees every day, but we have Matthew Shepard and Kevin Aviance and a whole slew of others who have been bashed or killed for being gay.

Honestly, I'm completely confounded that anyone of your (assumed) intellect could not see the similarities. Discrimination is discrimination, no matter what minority it is directed toward. It amounts to prejudice and/or hatred based on one's dislike toward a certain community of people.

The ridiculous assumption that we "haven't had it as bad" as black people is
insulting to the thousands gay youths who have committed suicide because of what they perceived to be hatred toward them for being gay.

Not all discrimination has to be visible to be real, Lee. It can merely be perceived or insinuated. We only haven't "had it as bad" because the gay rights movement has come of age in more "enlightened" times, and political correctness kind of snuck in there and shut some people up. But that does not take away from the continued hatred toward gays and lesbians that is on display every time a law is proposed to deny us simple civil rights--or that the fact that same-sex sexual activity is still illegal in certain states. I'd say that's "having it pretty bad" by anyone's standards.

Sheesh. REALLY!