Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
Gay rights are human rights.
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.
Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.
It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.
Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.