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Why No Push For Gay Reparations

Andrea Nicole Wrote: Mar 01, 2010 6:51 AM
No each individual doesn't get to shape their own unique future. Especially if they are developmentally disabled. They are basically told how to live their lives whether they like it or not from birth to death. We are not given the chance to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as we see fit. We are forced to work with professionals that may not have our best interests at heart. We are put through therapies that do more harm than good thinking it will create a better quality of life for us. At one time we were basically placed in back rooms of homes, our most basic of needs taken care of and then not talked about to anyone for fear the gene pool would seem tainted. Then once places like Bethlehem Hospital in London England came...

Leftwing activists love to make the case for gay rights by associating the struggles of today’s homosexuals with the long, heroic battle for racial justice in the Civil Rights movement. Most of these same politically correct advocates also look with favor on demands for reparations for slavery and Jim Crow, so their insistence on the black-gay comparison raises an uncomfortable question: why don’t they push for similar reparations for homosexuals?

An answer to that riddle not only exposes the ridiculous nature of equating African Americans with homosexuals as similarly suffering victim groups, but also reveals the dubious nature of any reparations...

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