Same-Sex Marriage - Same as Civil Rights?

The following video features a series of African-American men express their discontent at Prop 8 being compared with the Civil Rights movement.



Harry Jackson - "There is no way to compare the Civil Rights movement and the gay rights movement. We live in a society in which no one wants to be a called a bigot . . . therefore there's been an attempt to hijack the Civil Rights movement & to make it look like this is the same kind of thing (gay marriage) that we are dealing with when the blacks were sitting in the back of the bus. But I am offended by times by that comparison because I had no choice but to be black."

Dwight McKissic - "Homosexuality is a choice and skin color is not a choice and therefore there is no comparison of the two. . . I've met former homo-sexuals but I've never met a former black person."

Wellington Boone - "A person can change their mind about what sexual preference they have out of a conviction and all of a sudden they're heterosexual & they like the opposite sex. Well, I can't change my mind about my race. That's an issue of creation. I'm going to always be black."

Proposition 8 in Plain English

I found this video to be very simple, easy to follow, but very informative! Enjoy!

~ Mary