[askar_yu]

Could somebody help me understand what's the hype about the Gay marriage/pride thing? I don't know why but I am noticing a lot of buzz recently about this ("Gay parade banned somewhere", "Minnesota approved the same-sex marriage", "US supreme court to rule... about Gay marriage"). What I mean is in the ladder of problems that world has this has gone up extremely. What's the force behind it?

[tommorris]

Some people are gay.

We quite like having equal rights.

We've been asking for equal rights since the 60s and 70s.

We'll stop making such a big deal about it when we have equal rights.

Any questions?

[seivan]

Yeah, civil liberties and equal rights are all hype. If you need help understanding it, you got some deeper issues, son. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/12/gay-man-separated-from...

[edent]

The thing is, even if it were way down on the list of priorities (it's not) we can do more than one thing at a time.

It's not a choice of "repair the roads or ensure human rights for all" we can do both.