Reply #3: Jesse Jackson is flat out wrong [View All]

[Fleshdancer]

equal rights is equal rights is equal rights. Whether it be for African-Americans, women, workers, or homosexuals. How could this be so difficult to comprehend???

As far as Jesse Jackson goes...well I would have to disagree because I see numerous parallels between the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement.

Both involve a minority group who historically have been either flat out ignored or treated like a second class citizen if not subhuman.

One is judged by skin which cannot be changed, the other by sexual orientation which cannot be changed.

In both cases, the bible has been abused for the sole purpose of maintaining bigoted beliefs against them.

Both movements fight for nothing more than rights granted to the majority already. Nothing more, nothing less.

Both groups include people who have been harassed, beaten, and killed for no other reason than how they were born.