From the office of New York State Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz:
"It was disturbing today to hear Mayor Michael Bloomberg trivialize the suffering and agony of African Americans during the slave era by comparing it to the push to legalize homosexual marriage.
... There is no just comparison between America’s struggle to overcome the evils of slavery and the promotion of the lifestyle of homosexuality. It is preposterous for Mayor Bloomberg to degrade and minimize the plight of African-Americans in this civil rights struggle by equating it with the effort to push to legalize homosexual marriage.
... Black Americans should not sit back and let Mayor Bloomberg compare the long struggle of their ancestors against American slavery to the current fight for a lifestyle choice. The effort to redefine marriage to include a man and a man or a woman and a woman can never be compared to the struggle against slavery.
Before Mayor Bloomberg attempts to borrow from history for comparisons, he should take a look at the uncivil discourse that is taking place by those whose goals he has embraced.
Black leaders should not allow Mayor Bloomberg or anyone else trivialize their suffering and their history!"
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Did homosexuals have to sit in the back of the bus? Did they use different water fountains? In sports were they banned from being allowed to play? There is no comparison.
Blacks are people. Homosexuality is a behavior, a choice freely made by them.
On interracial marriage when the blacks tried to obey the one man/ one woman marriage law they suffered discrinination. It was not necessary to disobey the law in the first place.
Homosexuals on the other hand already have the right to marry. They cannot point to one instance where if they obeyed the law they were discriminated against. It is always necessary for them to disobey the law in the first place to have this discrimination.
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This is why so many people are coming around to the equality side. They know racism is vile, and they are realizing that being gaycist is cruel and punitive too.
"Gaycist?" That's so.......
I think the homosexual "marriage" side has lost its momentum, thanks to NOM and other groups speaking the truth about SSM. They're finally getting called out on their false comparison of homosexuality to race. No one can change their race; lots of people have changed their sexual orientation. There's no comparison, and if I were African AMerican, I'd be outraged.
I'm african american and I do find bloomberg's comparison of african american civil rights movement and the gay agentle not even the same class.Anything said to justify perversion.
It's amazing to me that SSM advocates continue to ignore the truth that Senator Diaz and so many others speak. Along the way they only alienate growing numbers of people who find their comparison to the civil rights movement ludicrous and insulting. Their lack of respect for anyone but themselves is backfiring, but they appear to be oblivious.
Well Michael, I am an African-American and I find it distasteful that NOM exploits my community on the issue, totally ignoring that there are black gays and lesbians who wish to be married.
When NOM is around to support the black community in issues like economic and educational discrimination, then we can talk about the organization's veracity in defending black people.
Black/white/gay/straight--all of this is a part of identity politics. Marriage between a man and a woman ignores identity, and sticks with common sense and biology: male and female. Together, they are more than the sum of their parts. No other human pairing can make the same claim.
Alvin: NOM does not exploit the African American community. It is the homosexual activists who have hijacked the civil rights movement and used it for something that has nothing to do with civil rights.
I think you will find that the vast majority of people of color wholehardedly agree that the homosexuals stole their civil rights issues and applied it to perverted sexual behavior.
Oh playing the race card? Gays aren't hated enough and haven't been treated badly enough throughout history to warrant a label that evokes emotion (civil rights)? Is this guy stupid? Look at the hollicaust for one... People killed just because they are gay... Look at places like Uganda which try and make it punishable by death- with us evangelical support no less. Look at DADT and the fight gays are having there! And the immutability of race is a horrible excuse and comparison... I hear with that "blacks can't help being black so that's why we have to accept them" horrible way of thinking. Keep up the divisive discrimination guys!
Civil rights isn't just about slavery and Diaz and everyone at NOM knows it. People aren't required to be enslaved before they can stake a claim to the civil rights that they're being denied. Face it, the comparisons are valid.
Civil rights isn't just about slavery and Diaz and everyone at NOM know it. People aren't required to be enslaved before they can stake a claim to the civil rights that they're being denied. Face it, the comparisons are valid.
im a black female and i am outraged at this comparsion.flat out absurd!