Homosexuals have the same civil rights as everyone else. The clamor for marriage isn’t about rights; it’s about acceptance of a lifestyle. Shelby Steele, author of The Content of Our Character and fellow at the Hoover Institution, wrote in the Opinion Journal:
"[G]ay marriage is simply not a civil rights issue. It is not a struggle for freedom. It is a struggle of already free people for complete social acceptance and the sense of normalcy that follows thereof--a struggle for the eradication of the homosexual stigma. Marriage is a goal because, once open to gays, it would establish the fundamental innocuousness of homosexuality itself. Marriage can say like nothing else that sexual orientation is an utterly neutral human characteristic, like eye-color. Thus, it can go far in diffusing the homosexual stigma."
That we actually are discussing so-called marriage between two men is evidence of how far the culture has declined. If Deval Patrick becomes governor of Massachusetts, he’ll contribute to that decline by attempting to repeal a law that protects marriage against efforts to render it meaningless.
I wonder what black men and women who died fighting for justice so that a man like Patrick could run for governor would think of such a “civil rights” victory?