This is 2008 and it's time to respect everyone as the humans that they are -- the human beings with wants, needs, hope and dreams just like you. We as a nation and as humans must recognize the importance or equality under the law.

Woman can vote, we have an African American president, it is time that we as a country stood up for the rights of homosexuals.

Desegregation might never have happened if African-Americans had been forced to win their human rights through referendum. History tells us you can't protect minority rights through majority vote; minorities are, by definition, unpopular. That's why civil rights need institutional legal protections that can't be undermined by populist backlash.