How is using the Bible as ammunition against gay people, any different

[GeromeW]

than using it against black people? In the American South black people won the right to marry out of their race, in the early 2000's, I think it was 2005 for Alabama. That is just 5 years ago, so how can a populous really expect the country to be liberal enough to accept gays, when just 5 years ago blacks did not have to right to marry in the South until 5 years ago?
This may seem totally proposterous, that in the 2000's black people did not have the rights to marry anyone they chose, in every state in America. But the facts are all over the web, you can research it if you wish.

Just a little perspective, perhaps we are not all as liberal as we think we are?
The fact is that the Bible was used to promote racism, even black slavery. Read a history book, ignorance won't save you.
"In November 2000, after a statewide vote in a special election, Alabama became the last state to overturn a law that was an ugly reminder of America's past, a ban on interracial marriage. The one-time home of George Wallace and Martin Luther King Jr. had held onto the provision for 33 years after the Supreme Court declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional. Yet as the election revealed -- 40 percent of Alabamans voted to keep the ban -- many people still see the necessity for a law that prohibits blacks and whites from mixing blood."

did I stutter?
http://www.stopthereligiousright.org/miscegeny.htm
I think you all need a history lesson here, seriously, this info is all over the history books, I am not the one writing it.

[howdareI]

what does TIRH mean?

[fireball]

Gay is a choice.....this is old news.......tirh

[TriCyclic]

The banning of interracial marriage was lifted in 1967 by the Supreme Court ruling in the landmark Loving v. Virginia case.

Alabama's law was obviously unconstitutional, but thanks for citing it.

[deepcow]

Being gay is a choice, being black is not.

[deepcow]

Being gay is a choice, being black is not.

[AnzenKarasu]

dude! I would KILL for a bible cannon! That way I could shoot all the fundies in the groin when they give me a hard time!

[ispreggoagaine]

I don't understand how states can use the bible for any kind of law-making. What happened to the separation of religion and state? And during the elections, all of a sudden we were a Christian country? And it was preposterous to think that we could have a possible Muslim pres? An atheist pres would have been better? I don't know. I just don't get this country anymore. It's gone from the American dream to the American nightmare.

[ZachBradleh]

Because unlike being African American, homosexuality is a choice, just like hermaphroditism and lactose intolerance.

[JESUSISLOVE]

Racism is a sin and homosexuality is a sin. Racism is hatred of a race of people, homosexuality is sexual immorality. God never said being black is a sin, but he did say homosexuality is a sin. Remember sodom and gomorrah and there are a few instances in the new testament as well