Hodar,
They were charged with "ethnic intimidation", as if they were spouting the n-word at an NAACP meeting, whicb they weren't. The biblical objections to homosexuality are a staple of our civilization and have been for 2,000 years. Suddenly, prosecutors call them "hate speech" and a whole new form of Inquisition begins.
They were also charged with "possession of an instrument of crime." The instrument? A small electric bullhorn. The proper charge if they were conducting an illegal protest, which they weren't, would have been the misdemeanor "noise pollution." Instead, a felony.
Altogether the charges, if made to stick, could total 47 years in prison, for reading the Bible at a homosexual "celebration" held on the main intersection of South Philadelphia, a heavily Catholic area.
In the entire history of slavery and Jim Crow in the U.S., was anyone ever charged with 47 years in prison for saying the n-word, using bullhorns, using firehoses and dogs to intimidate African-Americans?
No.
Let's also compare what blacks suffered: Their jobs, if they had any, were paid demonstrably less than comparable jobs held by whites. They had to go to separate schools that were terribly underequipped. They had to sit separately in theaters and were denied entrance entirely to restaurants and hotels. They had to ride in the back of the bus, and to stand in the aisle if a white person indicated that they wanted even those seats in the back. They were routinely called insulting names and made fun of, and had no access to justice. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of how they were treated.
Gays and lesbians have not suffered those conditions to any comparable degree. Their average income is substantially higher than the average income of African-Americans. Homosexuals are completely integrated in society unless they wish to draw attention to their sexual proclivities, and even then, most people are tolerant except when it comes to their children.
Most heterosexuals do not want seductive behavior of any kind by any type of person exhibited in front of their children. Homosexual behaviors in public "celebrations" tend to emphasize -- you guessed it -- sexuality. That's because their choices in sexual behaviors and their culture of promiscuity are their only difference.
There is simply no comparison to the suffering of racial minorities. The gay agenda's entire juggernaut riding the back of the Civil Rights movement is a slap in the face of African-Americans.
Gays "Strut their Stuff" at their "parades" for a reason. Psychologists say that exhibitionism is a defense mechanism for guilt. Those strutters actually feel guilt, but they can't admit that so they act out to cover their shame and guilt.