By Dave Eden, Eden Political Cartoons
“Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed that his children would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. A person’s character is expressed in his voluntary actions, and it’s reasonable to make judgments about those actions. Race implies nothing about one’s actions. But in practice, sexual orientation and gender identity terms are frequently used in reference to a person’s actions. ‘Gay’ comes to mean not simply a man who experiences same-sex attraction, but one who voluntarily engages in sexual conduct with other men. ‘Lesbian’ similarly comes to mean a woman who engages in sexual conduct with other women. Meanwhile, ‘transgender’ is used not simply to describe someone who experiences distress at his biological sex, but a biological male who voluntarily presents himself to the world as a female or a biological female who voluntarily presents herself as a male. This differs categorically from people in the civil rights era who from the moment they were born were excluded by law and practice from massive areas of public life simply because of the color of their skin.”
-Ryan T. Anderson, PhD.
