Sorry if I don't see the equivalency. I know it's critical to the gay rights movement to tie themselves to MLK and Civil Rights, and I am sure the polygamy movement will do the same thing. The fact that they both involve marriage doesn't make them the same, and it speaks to the intolerance of the gay rights movement that they wish to declare those of us who disagree with them on the basis of our religious convictions to be a bunch of bigots on the level of the Ku Klux Klan.
Please
what you are saying is, I am against gay marriage and it is backed by my religion so therefor I am not a bigot.
This was said to support slavery in the 1800's. This isn't hyperbole go read some history
And it was said to support anti-miscegenation laws that ended up being struck down in Loving v. Virginia. In fact here is the quote from the trial Judge that convicted the Lovings "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix." Sounds no different that the "It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" argument that many around here make.
The gays rights people are definitely tying themselves to the Civil Rights movement but not as a sly way to win they are doing it because
their rights are being violated. And their intolerance? You are actively promoting denying them the basic right to live their life with who they wish and it's intolerant of them? So your religion is against it, you try to enforce your religious views on free people via the Government and them calling you a bigot over it makes them intolerant? Wow