Ed, you know that the "Q" word is forbidden. I'm leaving your message becuase it's integral to the thread, but a repeat use WILL be pulled.
Now, were Blacks suddenly granted human rights in the 1860's? No -- the rights they'd had all along were finally accepted by society, although it took another 100 years until the job was done, and 50 years later some still wish it weren't. The gay rights issue is precisely the same: they're human beings, with precisely the same rights as you and I. Hopefully it won't tak 150 years and a civil war before that premise is also well accepted.
Finally, no one is "inventing" anything, excepting perhaps excuses as to why some human beings are less human than others. But those arguments have precisely the same validity as they did when applied to Blacks, Jews, and other Untermensch in the past.
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