2007-03-05 08:27:05 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
No. A man and a woman, of any race, can get married and have children. Gays want to call two people of the same sex a "marriage."
2007-03-05 08:34:21 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Gay rights = Human rights. Whether you agree or disagree.
Civil rights are a defined political movement designed for, and carried out by disenfranchised American citizens. The better known movement is what happened in Alabama during the sixties. However, we should not forget that women had little to no Civil rights at one time.
Gay rights, whether you agree or not (should or should not have), is a moral dilemma and has little popularity with most main stream religious groups and continues to be the face of cruelty and joking . You could draw a comparison between other restrictive conservative thinking and the lack of Gay rights (which I won't do). At the same time, there is a lot of lip service from the liberal side of the fence.
I think it's about a moral and personal choice for the bystander, which seems odd, they cast their vote for Gay rights and then say they are against it at the water cooler. Not putting Gays down but believe they're fight does not measure up to the standing of Civil Right, should be more like a Natural Right.
2007-03-05 08:47:56 · answer #2 · answered by ggraves1724 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
well... i don't equate gayness and blackness, thought i do think gay people deserve all the rights of marriage, regardless of whether or not they get the title "married." For those who say homosexuality isn't natural, you're not born gay," you're not born straight either. You have no sex drive at birth, perhaps its genetic, perhaps its events that happen through ones childhood that make people gay. Either way its not a "problem," or an "illness/plague/disease." As of now gay people can adopt in very few states, and have the rights to marriage in only one. They can get a civil union, but that doesn't include many rights that married people have. They cant even get in an ambulance with their loved ones due to the fact that their not blood relatives. They are treated as inferior citizens, and I'm surprised you find it offensive when your parents and grandparents were treated, though in a very different way, as secondary citizens. Its not the same, but it bears a strong resemblance in the most essential form.
2007-03-05 08:54:05 · answer #3 · answered by Immanuel Kant 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Everyone in America has Civil Rights whether you're white, black, red, yellow, or purple, straight, gay, bi-sexual, or celibate, male, female, or transgendered, that is, unless you commit a felony, then you lose certain civil rights such as voting and owning a gun, no matter what color, sex, or sexual preference you are. Gays should not have any special rights just as straights, blacks, whites, men or women should not have any special rights. We are all equal when it comes to civil rights.
2007-03-05 08:43:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The issue of "Gay rights" was instituted by special interest groups representing homosexuals as more priviledged than anybody else. Civil rights covers every American citizen - and non citizens these days - whose rights have been violated. It is unnecessary to fragment basic human rights into specific catagories.
2007-03-05 08:41:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Well here is an old sore that never closes.
It really comes down to marriage. The Government cannot in force the issue, but the State that issues the certificates can.
Marriage was made out of religion for man and woman. Not man and man or woman and woman. America was founded by Christian people and they integrated this into our system. In ancient times they had these type of marriages, but as times goes by and moral ethics change you have to ride with the law of the land. It's like marrying your own brother or sister of the same sex as you. The State or Government cannot stop the relationship, but the actual right of marriage (Grandfather clause)
of the same sex they can................
2007-03-05 09:01:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes they do. Civil rights does not apply to blacks only. Civil rights cover all the...well...CIVIL rights of every citizen in this country. The USSC already ruled, in Loving vs. Virginia, that marriage is a civil right of man. They didn't specify heterosexuals only.
2007-03-05 09:46:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes. Stupid question.
It pisses me off when black people think the battle for gay rights is somehow different than their own. Different people, same problem.
Civil Rights - A broad range of privileges and rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and subsequent amendments and laws that guarantee fundamental freedoms to all individuals. These freedoms include the rights of free expression and action (civil liberties); the right to enter into contracts, own property, and initiate lawsuits; the rights of due process and equal protection of the laws; opportunities in education and work; the freedom to live, travel, and use public facilities wherever one chooses; and the right to participate in the democratic political system.
*to all individuals* Is that sinking in to some of your thick skulls?
Bush couldn't change the Constitution and neither can any of you hatemongers.
2007-03-05 08:31:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
i think gay rights come more under human rights. which are not the same as civil rights.
2007-03-05 08:32:50 · answer #9 · answered by vibrance0404 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
It is not the same thing. No one is telling gays that they cna't vote or be important government officials. Being from a racial monority group is different. we should be nice to everyone but how come people can tell me that I am stupid for believing in God but I can't say they are nasty for being gay. I guess christian could be the new minority group
2007-03-05 08:38:51 · answer #10 · answered by Dr. Worm is back 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋