[ladtx]

By the by, since you are so knowledgeable what exactly did/have/are you doing for civil rights? I fought bigoted cops and white only gangs in the streets of America, travelled into the deep South, and later successfully battled major corporations for 35+ years for equal pay for people of all races and for employment equality for men and women.

For 20 years I served as a guardian of those civil rights. I've lived in the deep south and have not a racially prejudiced bone in my body. That has been taught to my three sons. I lead by example. My wife has been discriminated against because of her race, and that type of discrimination is totally different. You're barking up the wrong tree here. But then again you are trying to compare racial discrimination to life-style discrimination - again it's totally different.

[nastypumps]

All negative prejudgements about individuals based on their actual or imagined participation in a group one decides to dislike are the same in that they produce the same distructive results and scapegoating.

The old argument about lifestyle choice rather than genetics or biology is no more valid than arguing that because someone chooses to convert to Catholicism I can discriminate against him, but not if he's born into it.

While I find dead beat parents and millions of wholesale abortions morally repugnant, I don't fear or condemn every heterosexual I meet because tens of millions of them choose to abandon or just slaughter their inconvenient babies while all but a handful of the rest choose to stand around and do nothing about it.

Afterall, some straight people are OK, I guess, as long as they don't try to shove their baby murdering lifestyle in my face.

Sounds silly, doesn't it? So does all bigotry. Until you feel it.