News Feb 26, 2014 at 4:00 am

Same-Sex Marriage Fight Shifts to Discrimination Measure

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My religion says I can rob banks without penalty. Pretty sweet, no?
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It takes an author who has no idea what Jim Crow is to draw such an invalid analogy to it. Moreover, it would likely offend Michelle Alexander that her book's title has been usurped to describe the threat of something that has nothing to do with systematic incarceration of racial minorities.

It appears maleficent to dilute real history and real suffering of racial minorities who faced (and face today) real discrimination with some contrived specter of gay incarceration, which no one is talking about because it's not happening, and not about to happen except in someone's paranoid imagination.

It doesn't take invalid nonsense or drama to understand that gay discrimination laws are bad public policy. But that can stand on its own legs, it doesn't require racial analogies for a race that doesn't exist (gays are white and black and brown and everything, they don't create new gays themselves!). Accuracy is much less insulting and offensive. Try reporting that way.
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Actually... ^^realitycheck... it is a quite accurate descriptor for what the segregation laws are doing.

I think trying to chastise the journalist over semantics is a poor attempt to cover the fact that you are trying to minimize the experience of LGBT people throughout history.

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