I don't think that race is comparable to homosexuality. Race is membership in a group in which most of the members share recognizable physical characteristics that inspire others to relate to them, according to their beliefs and attitudes, about the racial group that they belong to.
By contrast, homosexuality is a drive to express sexuality and romance with members of ones sex. This drive is only known to others when, and if, it is openly expressed.
Racial characteristics are fixed and unchangeable, homosexuality may be hidden, and
many people who have experienced a homosexual drive, have changed their preference to heterosexual, as was the case of Anne Heche
Anne Heche’s comments about her change from gay to straight suggests that
sexual preference is a matter of choice:
When reminded that she was once gay, even though, after her homosexual relationship, Anne Heche was in a heterosexual marriage, during which she had a child; and she is now in a heterosexual relationship, and is once again pregnant. Anne said:
I have an open mind, I can change my mind.
There’s a door, we can close that door. We can go to another door.
Similarly,
Donnie McClurkin subscribed to a homosexual lifestyle, and does not now.
Although he identified as gay for several years, McClurkin states that he is now ex-gay. In his book, Eternal Victim, Eternal Victor, McClurkin wrote that homosexuality is a spiritual issue and that one can be delivered from it by God;
The abnormal use of my sexuality continued until I came to realize that I was broken and that homosexuality was not God's intention... for my masculinity.
Finally, while race is the product of a biological relationship to a members of an identifiable racial group,
the cause and operation of homosexuality is unknown.
To date, experts cannot agree if homosexuality is a deviation, created by a troubled mind, or if it is a natural drive. Also, it is unknown if homosexuality is fixed, in which case, the argument would be that Anne Heche and Donnie McClurkin, never were homosexual.
According to one gay man, without referencing the authority for this proposition:
(A) heterosexual person cannot by (an) act of will change their orientation to become a homosexual person. Nor can a homosexual person change their orientation to become a heterosexual person. That option is just not open - it is not something anyone can do by decision of will.
Finally, the behavior toward the members of a racial group is based on beliefs and attitudes about that racial group, including their culture, appearance, values, ability, etc. Whereas the behavior toward homosexuals is based on a belief that the sexual behavior that homosexuals engage in, or that they desire to engage in, is sinful and/or deviant.
To compare discrimination, triggered by racial identity, to discrimination triggered by what a person does, or wants to do, in their sexual and romantic life, is analytically flawed. The difference is highlighted in the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the military. Namely, a homosexual can choose not to tell what their sexual drive is, while members of a racial group don’t have that luxury. No one will "stand in the door of the school house" to prevent the entrance of a homosexual, if the homosexual keeps his sexuality to himself.
The civil rights movement was predicated on a group of people demanding inclusion. By contrast, the homosexual movement is an effort to participate in sexual behavior, that many in the society view as sin, and/or deviance, without the inconvenience of encountering words, behavior, and expressed beliefs, that reflect that point of view.
In furtherance of that goal, homosexuals have appropriated and/or changed institutions like religion, marriage and public education, in order to dispel the idea that their sexual practices are sinful and/or deviant.
In a nut shell, *Diasporans were excluded from society because it was believed that people of African descent were essentially unworthy to participate in human society. Whereas homosexuals primarily experience disapproval, rather than exclusion, based on their participation in sexual behavior that many believe is unnatural and/or sinful.
*Diasporan: A descendant of a
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survivor of the African diaspora
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