How many of them died attempting to vote?
How many of them are profiled on a daily basis for being gay? Are they disproportionately locked in prison? Do they endure harsher sentencing than heterosexuals? Are they disproportionately poor? Are they the last hired and first fired? Are they shot down like dogs for ‘fitting the description’?” He says, “gay voices weren’t heard, nor resources used when other injustices were done to blacks recently. If the answer to any of these questions is ‘yes’ it’s not because of sexuality, but because of race”. Let me first say, that the “gay lobby” hasn’t traditionally addressed the concerns of African-Americans because sexuality transcends race. Everyone has SOME kind of sexuality. But neither has the black church stepped to the plate when SGL people (black or white) have faced injustice or were killed. On a couple of these issues, he might have a point. But this argument doesn’t hold water on most of them. What rights have gays been denied? The right to adopt until recently. The right to have
