Homosexuality Is Not a Civil Right
Image via Wikipedia Early in 2004, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom began giving out marriage licenses—illegally—to same-sex couples. One of the homosexuals who traveled to San Francisco in search of a marriage license explained his rationale succinctly: “I am tired of sitting at the back of the bus.”1 The allusion, of course, was to the famous story of Rosa Parks . Parks is the African- American woman who, one day in 1955, boarded a racially segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sat down near the front, and refused the driver’s order to “move to the back of the bus.” Parks’ act of civil disobedience violated one of the “Jim Crow” laws that enforced racial segregation in various public services and accommodations in some states. Parks’ arrest for her courageous defiance sparked the Montgomery bus boycott , led by a young minister named Martin Luther King, Jr. , which is generally viewed as the beginning of the great civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It culminated