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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]
However, regarding the quote comparing the denial of gay rights to the denial of African American rights, I would say this. The rights of African Americans should not have been granted because of the history of African Americans. Those rights should have been granted because those rights are due all Americans and African Americans are Americans. Of course, there is a history of slavery and lynchings and Jim Crow and so on. But even if there had never been a lynching, even if Jim Crow had never existed, African Americans would still deserve the same rights as any other Americans. Gay Americans are also Americans. The fact that history is perhaps not as tragic should not prevent them from having the full rights of Americans.

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I agree with this paragraph and also agree that we pretty much on the same page. However, I don't think we're going to see fully eye-to-eye on this.

If it's not about history, why compare the two? If it's only about equal protection under the law for all humans, than you could compare it to any previous legal inequality, including women formerly not having the right to vote.
The US Civil Rights Movement and the current gay rights movement are so often compared because of the similarities they share. However, because the comparisons being made are not just legal ones, but also social and historical ones, of course it's going to lead into comparisons of suffering and trivialization and hurt feelings.[/quote]

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