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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not gay.  I'm a woman married to a man - however, the thought that a friend or a coworker would not have the same rights to marry or visit a loved one that I would.  I wonder how many of these people who voted against equal rights would have voted against rights for African Americans?  Would have voted against rights for women?  To me it is the same thing - equal rights for everyone - or for nobody.[/quote]

Please don't bring black people into this discussion. I HATE it when folks make this comparison. It's short-sighted and stupid. [/quote]

Love this quote by Wanda Sykes, because it's so freakin' true:

“To a certain point, yes. I believe [it's harder to be gay than black]. I’m not talking about the history of African-Americans. Today. I’m talking about at this point right now. I don’t know of organizations and groups like Focus on the Family and such anti-gay organizations who are putting so much money, millions and millions of dollars, into stopping me from being black or telling me that I can’t exercise my blackness or whatever. So it is. There’s no equality, there’s no equality for the LGBT community.”

And another:

"It’s harder being gay than being black. There’s some things that I had to do as gay that I didn’t have to do as black. I didn’t have to come out black. I didn’t have to sit my parents down and tell them about my blackness...Mom, dad I have to tell ya’ll something…I hope you still love me. Mom- dad I’m black."

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Absolutely terrible quotes to pick. I guess because Wanda is black, you think her opinion carries some sort of weight?

But yeah, comparing coming out and/or anti-gay groups to the hundreds of years of degradation of a race is...................short-sighted, at best. [/quote]

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