When Blacks gained their Civil Rights in 1964 was any other group required to lose some of theirs?
There are plenty of African-Americans who can't stand the comparison between the 1960s Civil Rights movement and today's gay rights agenda. HLBTs, as a group, are not poor or deprived of decend jobs. They are not shut out of the educational system. They can visit people in hospitals (I've never seen hospitals detain people who wanted to visit); they don't have to drink at seperate water fountains or sit in the back of the bus... What civil rights are you talking about?
Easy divorce has paved the way for acceptance of gay marriage. It got us used to the notion of depriving children of mothers or fathers and has conditioned us to think that "alternative families" are normal. We need stricter divorce laws. The failure of easy divorce is not an argument for gay marriage.
I've always thought that there should be outrage. But I've worked with black women who sympathize with gays because, you know, they can't help being born that way.
When I tried to point out the difference of their own genetic struggles versus gay behavior, they didn't want to hear it.
"They can't help they were born that way."
Those African-American women didn't understand the difference and I couldn't understand their attitude. It seems like they have a long way to go, IMHO.