Something To Ponder

PET said that the government had no place in the bedrooms of the nation and I think he struck down the law that made homosexuality a crime so I guess you could say he was the Abe Lincoln of the gays. Blacks have made, contrary to what social in-activists would have you believe, great strides in gaining "civil rights" and so have gays but we know when we have to make special status for blacks as they are easily identifiable but how are we going to identify gays....make them wear pink armbands?

Is Gay the New Black? Marriage Ban Spurs Debate

Gay is the new black, say the protest signs and magazine covers, casting the gay marriage battle as the last frontier of equal rights for all.

Gay marriage is not a civil right, opponents counter, insisting that minority status comes from who you are rather than what you do.

The gay rights movement entered a new era when Barack Obama was elected the first black president the same day that voters in California and Florida passed referendums to prevent gays and lesbians from marrying, while Arizonans turned down civil unions and Arkansans said no to adoptions by same-sex couples.

Racism was defanged by Obama's triumph, leaving gays as perhaps the last group of Americans claiming that their basic rights are being systematically denied.

"Black people are equal now, and gay people aren't," said Emil Wilbekin, a black gay man and the editor of Giant magazine. "I always have this discussion with my friends: What's worse, being a black man or a black gay man?"

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