Civil rights organizations focused on race, sexual orientation, and gender identity need to be working together in places where their missions overlap, not leaving those suffering the most injustice to fend for themselves. Finding common cause across black and white communities helped in the struggle for civil rights in the past, and is can help us all in the present.

Let’s subject Mr Jackson to the quick Substitution Test to if he’s being inconsitent or hypocritical. Taking a statement from his article and transposing the kind of marriage discrimination makes the problem clear: “So, let me make sure I understand this.  If I choose to exercise my right to oppose interracial marriage, I am hateful and believe in discrimination?”.

I can’t guess what’s in Mr Jackson’s heart, but he clearly believes in discrimination. Now he’s just quibbling about who should suffer it.

One might, of course, debate whether the NAACP should take on issues outside the area of African American rights. Fine. And the HRC? Many of us GLBT folks find it an unsatisfying organization, though I’m not sure their (or anyone, for that matter) rushing to judgment on the increasingly complex Trayvon Martin case would have somehow been wise. However, in your quid pro quo world, two wrongs apparently make a right, so we’ll leave it at that.

But you frame your “arguments” in terms that are both insensitive and ignorant. I mean, really ignorant. E.g., do you, somewhere in your brain, truly believe that women have been “historically disadvantaged,” but GLBT people not? Really? You’re THAT ignorant of recent history? Do you not get the difference between the term “sexual preference” and “sexual orientation?” Do you think that being able to get married, hold down a job, and rent an apartment free from discrimination are “special rights?”

Rights stem from the law, meaning that, say, before the Voting Rights Bill was passed, some people didn’t have a right to vote, and therefore they shouldn’t have been given the additional “privilege”of voting? Wow. And rights also stem from the Bible? Swell. I’m Jewish, and according to my Scripture, I have the right to hold slaves, as long as I free them every seven years. Sure will help with the housework.

Are you, supposedly a sophisticated political consultant, unable to differentiate between “sexual orientation” and “gender identification?” Which is to say that someone who, before gender reassignment, is attracted to men will not, after treatment, suddenly be attracted to women. I mean, you’re supposed to be smart. Can you actually sign off on such trashy logic?

No, I’m sure you’re not an ignorant bigot. You simply put forth arguments that sound, for all the world, like ignorant bigotry.