How many times in this life do I have to hear the same old tiresome slavery connection to gay rights? Please, for the love of pete, come up with something better and more on target than that! You can extrapolate whatever you want from slavery, but just a word of advice...blacks don't really want to be lumped into the gay thing. I know you want it to be the same, but it isn't. It just doesn't work anymore...people have become (yawn) tired of that reasoning. If you don't want tradition or "time-honored" lifestyle in your life, be my guest and congregate with similar types in your social experiement. But don't forcefeed your brand of alternative lifetstyle down the majority's throat.