On Offensive Comparisons

Look at that picture for a moment.  No rush.  Just look at it, drink in the details, think through the implications.

I cannot stress enough how insanely offensive that picture is.

It is saying that people who oppose gay marriage are like the people who opposed the civil rights movement.  It is drawing equivalency with people who wish to redefine the ancient institution of marriage, implying that they are somehow as oppressed as the people who had to use inferior facilities because of the color of their skin.

They are saying that judging someone for their actions is the same as judging someone for the color of their skin.  That being a homosexual, tied to the actions of the individual, is somehow similar to having a certain skin color, which is immutable.

Is this picture trying to tell me that homosexuals are being blasted by water cannons in the streets?  That they're being beaten by abusive police officers while dogs are unleashed on them to tear their flesh?  Is it telling me that they are being murdered and hung in the town square for all to see?

You bet.  It's drawing a moral equivalence between people who believe that government shouldn't and in fact, does not have the authority to redefine marriage and those who believed that people of color did not deserve basic human dignity.

Pictures like this are the result of leftism.  The left transforms every issue into a dichotomy of "being on the right side of history" vs. "bigotry."  By making the side the left disagrees with appear to be bigoted, it gives them a massive talking point which no one will disagree with, except those of conscience on the opposing side.

Because the left teaches kids what, rather than how, to think, they post and repost pictures like this without thinking it through.  Anyone who thinks about this image for a bit realizes the disturbing and disgusting implications at the core of its message.  The way it marginalizes the struggles of the civil rights movement by putting what amount to minor inconveniences on the same level as being treated as less than human is abhorrent.  Anyone should be repulsed at the idea of drawing this comparison.

The future seems scary from where I'm sitting.  Comparisons like this are becoming commonplace and people of traditional, Biblical mores are slowly being shunned and shoved to the side.

What effect do you think this mentality will have on liberty?