See, here you are again, arguing against shyt while failing to take the time to fully understand. I don't say this often, but I'm going to be real about this. You're not black and that's why you don't understand why it pisses black people off when the comparison is made. Sometimes, there's just some things you won't fully get unless it's articulated to you. With black people it's a visceral reaction as you can see in here, it's not something that needs to be explained to us. It has little to do with christianity the way intellectual and others are trying to paint it.
People do equate the struggles and we had a thread earlier this year talking about it with a bunch of eloquent opinions. Brown Pride, also didn't realize that it offended black people, even someone progressive like me until we explained it to him. I have no qualms about gay marriage, but do not like it being equated with the civil rights movement. People who are not black equate the two all the time. Macklemore is running around with a popular song right now doing just that. Then you ended off by saying something completely ridiculous "how does one hide dating another man... ."
" This is the superficial reasoning you use consistently that turns off people that would otherwise be allies on issues.
Gays are largely arguing and fighting for symbolic equality (obviously economic benefits are at play as well) and recognition and fighting against stigma and that sort of equality. Sure it's a civil right, but on a what is at stake is a much lesser scale and to continue to analogize the two is taken by MANY black people as downplaying what our ancestors went through. It's the same way how my Jewish friends are automatially offended by reckless Nazi and Holocaust comparisons.
I try not to get into comparing genocides and things of that sort, but when something clearly isn't among that penunmbra of terrors then the comparison is just lazy. I could go on forever. The day you stop using "on my facebook" and "I've never heard anyone say this" as shortcuts is when you'll get it.
And amid all this you fail to realize that rejecting the idea of it being an equivalent Civil Rights struggle is not equivalent to not supporting the cause. Black Americans still remain in higher support of gay rights than the American population as a whole. Imagine that, people are complex. :obamaword: