COLUMN: Nothing 'special' about civil rights for homosexuals

University Wire | April 24, 2002| | Copyright

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(Oklahoma Daily) (U-WIRE) NORMAN, Okla. -- President Bush announced that "gay rights are special rights," as his defense against criticism that came when he refused to enact various civil rights laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people from discrimination in their daily lives. I'm here to tell you, gay rights are NOT "special" rights. They are the rights everyone else in society enjoys, and that GLBT people do not have access to these basic civil liberties in the year 2002 is astounding and it is discriminatory.

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