Why do you think I'm contributing to this thread?

But its not just about what's fair for gay people, is it? This is all part of a bigger dialog (or "narrative", to use the annoying Newspeak that's current today).

There is a struggle going on in the world today, and the most pitched battles are being fought right here in this country. We are trying to decide how we should govern ourselves and how we live our lives. This battle is economic and political, but it is mostly cultural. It is philosophical.

When I was a young man, the idea that gays might have rights didn't even exist. Oh sure, I wasn't brought up to hate gays, but I wasn't taught that they were human beings either, that they had rights to believe and feel what they felt was right. We just didn't talk about them. They didn't matter to "real" people. Blacks had just started that evolution too when I was an adolescent (or I thought they had, their struggle had been going on for over a century already). Women were once considered subhuman creatures as well.

I'll give you a hint. Watch that great old Sci-Fi flick "Forbidden Planet", (1959) sometime. Check out how the male officers react to the female lead, Altaira. She is a pure sexual object, nothing else. Even though her character is highly educated, she is basically a pair of great legs as far as the ship's crew is concerned, and not much else. A script like that could never be seriously considered today. There has been some progress.

Remember that the next time someone starts throwing around the term "Feminazi". Its not just gays or women or blacks or any other minority or community that is still being marginalized, or ridiculed because they have the audacity to demand they be treated with respect, and dignity. The gays have a point, but they aren't the only ones. We're all in the same boat.