Once the opposition posits gay people as requiring the status of children, but doesn’t give this same group the capability, right or respect to respond with emotions and feeling that any normal human would, we know what is in store and we’ve seen other citizens treated in this same manner.

This is absolutely a civil rights issue.
This is not defense of sexuality, but defense of one’s HUMANITY.
Which IS what our nation’s creed and mission statement is about and we SHOULD hold it accountable.

And when the opposition insists it IS about defense of a sexuality they don’t understand, they fail to admit or acknowledge that when all civil rights are lost BECAUSE of sexual orientation, not any OTHER reason, then of course THEY define gay people by sex and nothing else.

It’s exhausting and so unfair to even have to defend ANYTHING on so basic a level.
But this is something that black folks and women and Jews know well.
Because the opposition takes so much away for so superficial a reason, and WE defend the one thing that shouldn’t have to be defended for civil rights in the first place.

History is already revealing how right we are.

This the link to the Larry King segment with Ted Olson and David Boies who were opponents in the Bush-Gore ballot dispute. There is heated discussion around as to whether this is “the right time” to bring this before SCOTUS. These two make good points for not waiting and clear reasons why it must be addressed at the federal level, not just state-by-state