Irvine511
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INDY500 said:
Kenny Chesney is gay?
So you want to compare gays to blacks under Jim Crow.
Point 1
The despicable laws that forbid marriage across color lines were intended to foster segregation and advance racial subordination and economic inferiority. Yes, as I've said, issues that you raise regarding benefits, taxes and insurance need to be addressed, but do you seriously think my objection to same-sex marriage is to keep you economically oppressed? Must not be working as the homosexual population as a whole has a higher than average standard of living does it not?
Point 2
If this were true, wouldn't black Americans, above all others, be sympathetic to your "fight for equality under the law." Yet this isn't the case. Support for same-sex marriage is LOWER among blacks and other minorities than the national average. Why is this?
Point 3
Race is immaterial to wedlock, but sex--the duality of genders--has always been the basis for marriage and family structure.
the jury is out on Kenney Chesney, but Rene did divorce him for "fraud," though they remain good friends, apparently.
1. so you are in support of civil unions? that's what it seems like, and that's the most important thing, though i still wonder about the resistance to the word "marriage."
and the generally well-to-do nature of white male homosexuals who live in urban centers are not reflective of all homosexuals. think about it. it's usually those who are most economically advantaged who can sometimes literally afford to come out. and since many don't have children, they have as much disposable as any other childless couple.
2. well, Coretta Scott King is on our side, but i'd be typing for hours if i were to explore the entrenched homophobia in african-american culture that is literally killing young black men, but let's just say that all those churches have something to do with it.
3. that doesn't hold water -- 50 years ago they would have said that race is integral to marriage, that what would happen to the poor children of black fathers and white mothers? where would they fit in a segregated society? think about the little mulatto children! basically, you're saying that marriage is about penises and vaginas, the arguments that men and women "fit" together, and thusly we have the natural order of things.
and the world is also flat because that's what i can see.