[Coyotefred]

2. One response talks about gays seeking “special rights.” What, exactly, would those be? Name one right that gays have demanded that would be “special” (more than) other people enjoy right now. By this logic, Rosa Parks was unfairly demanding the “special right” to sit at the front of the bus. And the Chinese were seeking the “special right” of not being denied housing based on their race/ethnicity in California. And Blacks were seeking “special rights” by not having to take “literacy tests” in southern states that whites never had to take. The only thing that makes gay rights “special” is that certain people in this country don’t want gays to have them. The only example that comes close is the “gay high school” issue [Harvey Milk], which if someone had taken 5 minutes to actually learn about would find admits students regardless of sexual orientation; any student at risk due to harassment by other students will be admitted. One poster requests a “Christian-only” school. Fine. Point me to a community where Christians face the daily bullying and violence that gays often do in our public schools and I’ll support your school (and no, refusing to teach your pseudo-scientific “creation theory” in biology class doesn’t count). 3. By now you’re surely saying “But Coyotefred…what makes their rights ‘special’ is that gay people CHOOSE to be gay, while your other examples were not due to biology.” A first response to the “choice versus biology” issue might be “so what.” People choose to be Republicans and Baptists as well. Is that reason to deny them equal rights compared to Democrats and Catholics? But if you insist on fixating on the choice issue, I ask you a simple question: acknowledging what any honest person must about the daily bigotry, intolerance and outright violence gay people face in the country every day, WHAT REASONABLE PERSON WOULD CHOOSE TO BE GAY??? You can pretend if you want that we now live in a “Will and Grace”/”Queer Eye” world….but we all know what happens in 99% of our communities when a same-sex couple walks down a public street holding hands. WHY would anyone WILLINGLY CHOOSE to risk becoming the next Matt Sheppard??? And if you can’t answer that question maybe you need to rethink your position on this issue. (And no, you can’t weasel out by arguing the choice is somehow “unconscious” etc., which no longer makes it a “choice” now does it?)

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