Conservative blacks are objecting to recent comparisons between the gay marriage and civil rights movements, arguing that sexual orientation is a choice...Links between the two struggles have been made since the state's highest court ruled last week that the Massachusetts Constitution guarantees gay couples the right to marry. The Supreme Judicial Court cited landmark laws that struck bans on interracial marriage...But the Rev. Talbert Swan II, pastor of Solid Rock Church of God in Christ in Springfield, said the two struggles are not similar because blacks were lynched, denied property rights, and declared inhuman. "Homosexuality is a chosen lifestyle," he said. "I could not choose the color of my skin. . . . For me to ride down the street and get profiled just because of my skin color is something a homosexual will never go through. Black conservatives oppose gay marriage Reject parallels with civil rights movement By Jay Lindsay, Associated Press, 11/29/2003

“We have been left with no other choice for the defense of marriage than an amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” said Tony Perkins, president of the Washington-based Family Research Council. “We have a very simple message: Americans want common sense written into the Constitution.”....“This is not about gay marriage, it is an assault on traditional marriage,” said Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr., Chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, which organized the press conference. “Gays are aggressive, gays declared war, gays are attacking traditional marriage, and we’re saying stop it now...".....“We’ve already seen in Black America what happens when families are destroyed,” said Shar Parker, President of the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education. “We have seen what happens when we tell young men that they could do whatever they desire in terms of their sexual passions, of when they go into the jails and they go back into these 4,000 housing projects." Black Religious Leaders Call for Protection of Marriage/ The Chrisian Post Wednesday, Jun. 7, 2006 
 

The well-to-do white Liberals who control the Democrat Party like to tell us all that the Democrat Party is political party of Civil Rights Movement.  But it's actually the party of special interest politics, controlled by white well-to-do liberals who enjoy the pretense of feeling morally superior to working folks on whose votes they claim they rely on.

An example of this is the tendency of the Democrat Party to ignore Black folks who are rallying to defend traditional marriage and family, and oppose redefining marriage to accomodate the lifestyles of homsexuals and lesbians.  

African-Americans more then anyone else can detect the illogical premises of the Gay marriage advocates. Blacks in the Civil Rights movement were merely seeking equal treatment under the law, and equal accommodation in public services, housing and employment. Gays and lesbians are NOT seeking equal accommodation to existing laws, but to change the existing laws to accommodate sexual behavior that the the majority of Americans believe is personally destructive.  

Homosexuality has always been viewed as an opportunistic sexual behavior, not a state of being.  And this is a view that is universally shared across all cultures, races and religions, and across time. So it's downright silly to put "Gay Sexual Liberation" on the same table with the Black Civil Rights movement.

In fact, many African-Americans find it downright confounding, if not insulting that Gays and Lesbians compare themselves to African-Americans under Jim Crow. Unlike Blacks under Jim Crow, Gays and Lesbians have a high degree of social acceptance, among the well-to-do and the leisure classes. Unlike African-Americans, Gays and Lesbians are disproportionately represented in the elite professions in art, media, and academia, as well as law and medicine, and the corporate staffs of the largest multi-national corporations. Unlike Blacks and Browns, Gays have never been prohibited from owning property, obtaining mortgages and financing. Gays are not prohibited from leaving their property to whomever they want. Gays have never been prohibited from entering into legal contracts and have them enforced in the courts. Unlike African-Americans under Jim Crow, Gays have the right to public assembly, and free association. And it was gay men responding to the AIDS crisis who normalized living wills and power of attorney for medical decision making, something most gay activists would like us to forget.

Obviously, Gays have not been deprived of the law's equal protection, or even the right to marry -- only of the right to insist that same sex cohabitation is a "marriage." Gays disingenuously cloak their demands in the language of civil rights because it sounds so much better than the truth: they want to take what is obviously an issue of their own personal sexual liberation and give it the status of a civil right problem.

The refusal of the Senate to consider the Gay Marriage is only delaying the inevitable showdown on this issue. As long as the Liberal Democrat judges insist on overturning Defense of Marriage Acts, and insisting that marriage is the equivalent of Jim Crow, the Federal Marriage Amendment will be in play.