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To be completely accurate, in most places gay people have the same rights in theory, but not so much in practice, and that hasn't always been the case, even within the limited scope of 20th century US history (though its not like gay people are alone in this - very poor people have the same rights in
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about civil rights, whether or not a person wants to recognize the issues at stake issues of civil rights or not. That is, the fight is, at least partially, one to get people to recognize that these things are even basic civil rights. Since its a fight over civil rights (initially, like all civil
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I unhatefully claim that the name of this category is inherently POV. Calling them "civil rights" displays a POV alignment with advocates for same sex marriage and other LGBT "rights." It's like calling the
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Gay people possess the identical civil rights that all other citizens have. They are not being taken into slavery or being denied their right to vote.
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