It's Not Like Being Black: How Sexual Activists Hijacked the Civil Rights Movement

by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

The idea that the battle over same-sex marriage was a continuation of the civil rights battles of the 1960s was both strategic and ubiquitous at the time. Gay activists had made a concerted effort to burn this idea into the collective conscience of America decades earlier, and it had worked. The idea that homosexuality was equivalent to race had caught on. To be fair, even the proponents of this argument knew it was a stretch. The author of The Advocate article admitted, Our oppression … is nowhere near as extreme as blacks’, and we insult them when we make facile comparisons between our plights…. Gay people have more resources than blacks had in the 1960s.2 But the strength of the gay-equals-black argument lies not in the accuracy of its comparison but in the effectiveness of its propaganda. And that has never been clearer than it became in the summer of 2015.