Quote:Not true now.


But even before <del>the Supreme Court</del> Kennedy changed the law, gays and straights had exactly the same right, namely to marry a person of the opposite sex who is of age and not closely related.

They are not a federally protected class (yet) which is why most states have had to expand ordinances.


Yes. In Jacksonville, you can be fired, evicted or told to leave a restaurant for being gay. In some states, if you have a gay partner who is severely injured in an accident or worse on their death bed, the hospital will refuse visitation rights because they are not straight. In some cases where there are lesbian couples legally married where one woman is artificially inseminated, hospitals will refuse to put the name of the non-pregnant parent on the birth certificate.


People keep saying these are special privileges. They are equal protections other minorities have.

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