Can we all just try to focus and stay on topic?
This thread is definitely not about minorities, specifically blacks, and how they are viewed by the media. This seems to get injected into every discrimination thread. If you want to discuss that, then start another thread. Damn.
Homosexuals aren't a minority?
But it's certainly true that people who oppose gay rights don't like being reminded that they sound exactly like those who opposed equal rights for blacks.
The thing is, if it's not right to do something to a straight black man, then how could it be right to do the
very same thing to a gay white woman? Until those who oppose equal rights for gays can answer that question, I'm afraid they'll keep hearing it whether they like that or not.
This thread is also not about gays vs the rest of the country, and how gays are discriminated against.
It's not? A lesbian is discriminated against, but it's not about discrimination?
It is about a lesbian high school student wanting special treatment and not getting it.
Not equal treatment, because that's exactly what the school board was giving her, but special treatment.
Interesting. So, a straight boy could bring a girl to the dance, but she could not, and yet she and that boy were treated equally, you say?
How do you figure that?
I'm going to take a guess. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Your reasoning is that both the straight boy and the gay girl are forbidden from bringing a partner of the same sex to the dance, and so in that sense are exactly equal. Is that about right?
If so, then I have a question that I just know you won't like. Was it wrong when both blacks and whites were forbidden from dating people of the opposite race? If so, then why, since everyone was treated equally then too?
Is it really such a wild stretch of the imagination to see why her classmates despise her for this?
Not at all. I don't even have to imagine bigotry - I've seen it firsthand, so I know just what it looks like.
A lot of people across the country (and on this forum) think she was wronged by not being allowed to "be herself" when in reality, she was breaking several rules that were put in place and being followed by the rest.
Yes, I can only imagine the self-control that it must take for straight kids to resist dating a partner of the same sex.