In many cases its not an "enforced" minority but a volentary one, gay culture taking it far beyond black culture, I mean its one thing to say I am a human being and I have the right to be treated like one, another to say my sexual orientation makes me special, look I can dress in a skirt.
I like the stereotypes on both sides, gays are either all decadents or decent human beings, what about the part they play in their own segregation? Gay pride parades, the flagrent anti-strait culture in some gay communities, etc etc, all contribute to reinforcing the idea of the dominant group that these people are too mentally unstable to be given proper air time.
Oh, as to the whole issue, comparing gays to blacks or hispanics is rather insulting, I mean there's disapproval and there's actual prejudice, for the most part gays experience the former, the latter is reserved for the stuff of hate crimes and such.
Lets get it right here; this is not some historic OMG PPL R EQAL moment in history, it is the change of a historically heterosexual institution to include people that we for the most part disapprove of. Of course there will be a backlash - to put it in simple terms, if a court ordered you and your friends to let some asshole who's lifestyle you think is immoral or just stupid (lets say, lots of hard drugs, living off welfare, etc etc) into your "Non-Idiots" club, you'd be a little pissed right? Same thing here.
Of course, I don't mind constitutional equal-protection arguements, which are in fact legitimate. As to the slippery slope, there is actually a tenent that the courts have approved where you can ban "immoral/decadent" behavior; most Americans (and judges) don't consider homosexuality decadent on the order of beastiality, per se, but they do at the very least 'disapprove' of it. If homosexuality were that, you'd outlaw it and that would be that. People do not want to outlaw homosexuality, thus putting it on par with heterosexuality, or at least in the same ballpark, and subject to the same benefits and protections under the constitution.
So its all or nother, either convince teh voters to ban homosexuality like they've banned beastiality, or its a legitimate choice and you'll have equal-protection suits filed everywhere. As mentioned, Bush's constitutional ban on gay marriage has no chance whatsoever to pass, and given his opponent the lodge republicans won't be voting for Kerry anyway, so he can have his cake and eat it, too. Impress the Christian right, everyone else who doesn't approve has nowhere else to go.
-MiB
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