"why should two people have civil rights denied to other equally legal individuals because, solely, of their sexual orientation? Why should that single attribute make them a separate, lower class of citizen?"

No reason I can think of, Amos.

I was simply discussing some other stuff I'm interested in, and replying to Ebbie.

"Why should their civil rights be put aside because people who don't know them decide they dislike them? That strikes me as really, really dumb."

Yessir. It is really dumb.