How is the anti-gay movement any diff than segregation, anti-women's rights, and the pro-slavery movements?

Question

Anti-gay movement = limiting gay marriages, and general hatred toward homosexuals.

Segregation = the movement to separate whites from African-Americans

Anti-women's rights = the movement to keep women from being able to vote, equal opportunity in the work-place, etc.

Pro-Slavery = the movement that was a key element/impetuous to the Civil War.

I just don't understand how we Americans can be so hateful of a group of people. In the past, we have altered our constitution on the matters of Slavery, Women's Rights, and Segregation. Proving that we can move to eliminate hatred, and to protect the rights of human beings, our citizens.

I feel the anit-gay movement is virtually identical to these since forgotten, and carefully legislated-way aberrations of our history.

Someone tell me - how is it different - fundamentally?

I'm straight, and stand up for the rights of Americans - including homosexuals, women, and African-Americans.

Answer 1

Blacks and Women didn't get to choose who they are. Race and gender are not on the same level with a lifestyle choice. I don't hate gays, I just don't like their attempts to make the rest of us accept their deviant behavior as mainstream.

Answer 2

At it's core it is not very different from any of that. People will say it has to do with the sanctity of Marriage which first there is no such thing, when we are a culture that has a divorce rate over 50% and watch shows like Who wants to marry a million Marriage has no sanctity what so ever. And in the past they used the same argument to keep Interracial couples from getting married.

I believe if the a church does not want to marry Gay couples that is their right. But I don't think the state has that right.

Answer 3

As others have said, people do not choose their race or sex, but they do choose their sexual preference. I have proof. I was bisexual, actually, for a time I leaned towards becoming a lesbian, because 1) I think women are beautiful. 2) I was tired of men's crap.
I made a decision when I embraced Christianity to become completely straight.
I have a friend, who is agnostic, who was gay. He then realized he was attracted to women too. Now, he's straight.
So what this means is, yes it IS a choice. Are some people born with the tendency? Of course, just as some people are born with violent tendencies (not that I'm equating the two!).
It's what we do with the urges that matters. So that's what the difference is between those beliefs and being "anti-homosexual". I'm against homosexuality, but for them having EQUAL, not EXTRA rights.

Answer 4

Someone wrote, "Blacks and Women didn't get to choose who they are." Gay men and women don't "choose" to be gay. You are who you are. It has nothing to do with unnatural desires and it doesn't open the doorway for disgusting acts such as bestiality, like has been stated on this site before. People, gay and straight, are one half of a complete being. Whether or not the other half is of the same sex is indifferent. We all have the right to love one another. Limits should be placed on the age of consent, not the sex of partners.

Answer 5

This is not to say that I hate homosexuals, but to answer your question....
Segregation, slavery, the oppression of women...these issues are based on color, race, sex...something that is unchangeable. Homosexuality is (admittedly this is debatable) a preference. Even if you do not believe that, should you have special rights just because of who you have sex with? I don't believe you should have any rights that all other american's have taken away, but you shouldn't have any that I as a straight person do not have. (Gay marriage) technically homosexuals have the same rights i do as far as marriage, i am not allowed to marry another woman either.

Answer 6

See, I know a puny liberal mind finds facts hard to comprehend, so I will keep it REAL simple: homosexuality is just that - the proclivity of a man (or a woman) to want to have unnatural sex with another man (or a woman, correspondingly). Nothing else. It is not a culture, a race, a creed, or a gender. It is only the desire of one person to perform sex on another person of the same sex.