For years, I've written about liberal fringe groups that seek legitimacy by equating their issues to the black civil rights struggle. What I find interesting with the whole Proposition 8-gay marriage clash is that the very gays who want to be like blacks, now find themselves at odds with a black population that not only is insulted by the comparison, but voted overwhelmingly against the marriage initiative.

In a cover story for the Advocate magazine titled "Gay is the New Black," Michael Joseph Gross wrote,

"These past few years we've made so much progress that we'd begun to think everybody saw us as we see ourselves. Suddenly we were faced with the reality that a majority of voters don't like us, don't think we're normal, don't believe our lives and loves count as much or are worth as much as theirs."

"… we'd begun to think everybody saw us as we see ourselves."

Been to a gay pride parade lately?

Yet even some gay leaders are reluctant to directly tie their fight to the African-American legacy. They acknowledge significant differences in the experiences of gays and blacks, ranging from slavery to the relative affluence of white gay men to the choice made by some gays to conceal their sexual orientation, which is not an option for those with darker skin.

"I believe we are very much in a modern-day civil rights struggle," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights organization.

Here's yet another unfortunate result of the Democrat Party's ongoing whitewash of history, both politically and academically. Some gay people are totally clueless, thus foolish in making the comparison between the American black versus gay experience.

Gays were not legally enslaved for centuries. Gays were never segregated in education, in the military, or socially overall up until the last 50 years. Again, the comparison is ludicrous.

I would never want gay people to have to walk in my shoes, but until they have, they have no right to demand a share of our legacy. It demeans the legitimate black struggle, and now that some feel empowered to say "Goes to show that Negroes truly are the most underdeveloped race when 70% are homophobic. Kind of funny because that's also their IQ", it shows some were never our friends and don't deserve whatever support they had.

BTW- This post was pulled (within three minutes) from Free Republic.

UPDATE: With that, let me provide a couple of prominent examples of the left using black people for politically-correct posturing.

A few years ago, there was a movie produced by the Farrelly Brothers called "Shallow Hal" which was protested by obesity advocacy groups who, rightly or wrongly, felt discriminated in employment and in public perception. In order to prove their point, they used black people….

The organization asserts that movies like Shallow Hal, American Sweetheart and The Klumps not only reinforce stereotypes and myths about fat people, but underscore the prejudice against fat people in this country.

'Putting thin performers in fat suits is no different than putting white performers in blackface', says Maryanne Bodolay, executive administrator of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.

Considering the "thin epidemic" plaguing Hollywood for years, thin actors are placed in fat suits because of a lack of larger actors; not because fat actors are barred from employment opportunities as was the case with blacks decades ago.

There was the now-infamous PeTA exhibit…

"Are Animals the New Slaves?" drew widespread criticism from civil rights groups who complained that the exhibit compared the enslavement and lynching of blacks with animal cruelty.

The 12-panel display juxtaposing such images as noosed black men hanging from trees with photos of slaughtered cows had appeared in some 17 cities before PETA officials announced they would put the campaign on hold.

While animal rights activists today argue that animals were the "first slaves", one could argue that even then, they were treated more humanely than blacks and the ongoing comparison between blacks and animals is what got the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in trouble in the first place.

A Google search using the words "fags niggers" finds a fascinating number of gay forums where anti-black sentiment is running rampant.

It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU NIGGER, one man shouted at men. If your people want to call me a FAGGOT, I will call you a nigger. Someone else said same thing to me on the next block near the temple…me and my friend were walking, he is also gay but Korean, and a young WeHo clone said after last night the niggers better not come to West Hollywood if they knew what was BEST for them.
— Geoffrey, a student at UCLA who joined the massive protest outside the Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Westwood, and was called the n-word at least twice

Scapegoating blacks for the passage of Proposition 8 may be convenient, but is fact-challenged.

While blacks make up only around 10% of California's population and the 2008 turnout high, not all turned out. The 70% that voted against gay marriage can't be singled out with any sense of fairness, and slurring all black people is the very thing gays complain is done to them.

Other demographics voted against the proposition, so they are all homophobic haters (which is what the activists would prefer to believe). But to use racial epithets against one isn't exactly the tactic we've all been instructed by the left to tolerate.

And using the safety of Internet forums to declare that hate is cowardice at the very least. Staging huge protests in front of the Church of Latter Day Saints is safe. Taking those protests to The Hood and using racial epithets there would take courage.

Unlike the civil rights protests where people risked, in some cases, life and limb to participate, gays are not putting all on the line with theirs. The tactics used thus far shows just how courageous these pro-gay marriage activists have chosen to be and who the real haters are.

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