mal
Diamond Member
May we overcome this new "separate but equal" falsity.
It's not a falsity at all.
Jim Crow argued the water fountain was almost as nice for the colored people as it was for the white folks, and it still dispensed water, so what were they so upset about. We're giving you the water...
Civil unions... almost as nice as straight marriage, you get most of the same protections marriage gives you... It's "Separate" yet "equal".
I remember as a kid in the late 50s living in the deep south the neighbors calling my father "****** lover" for demanding that blacks could take the SAT.
And I saw the red necks by the fence when we took the field with the first integrated team I played on in 1967. They were spitting on the black players we had. They wanted them to not be able to dress in the locker room where we were playing on the road that week. They would not shake their hands when one of our captains was a black that came out to call the coin toss.
But when they lined up against us and had to face the Black Wall defense we had-only 3 blacks but we were black uniforms, they knew that we WERE seperate but NOT equal.
We kicked their ass. I actually felt bad for their QB as we beat him to a pulp that day.
Interesting enough we had very few problems that year with opposing white players.
It is always those NOT in the trenches that cry like 5 year olds.
Blacks being equal and gays being equal=same thing. Good for the NAACP.
There are many gay and lesbian black folk.
Even us red necks can figure this one out.
Gays are Equal... They are not Suffering ANYTHING Resembling what Blacks have and continue to today regarding Racism...
Ironically, Blacks are FAR more Likely to be Homophobic and Abusive of Gays than Whites...
The FBI Stats Illustrate it...
The Collective Black Church Response to Barry's "Evolution" on Gay Marriage does also.
As for the Struggle...
Denying a Black Man and White Woman Marriage Defied Nature and it's Design.
Deny Same Sex Couples Marriage does NOT.
Deal with Reality.
Civil Unions are the Answer.
peace...