>I don't think the civil right movement and gay marriage thing is exactly the same thing.

But it is. It's all about discrimination. It's all about making them second-class citizens, just as people of color and slaves were once. You are of asian ancestry. Luckily you live in an age where you can walk the streets, and hold a job, just like everybody else. That was not so in the past, where you would have been discriminated based on your skin and ancestry. Why is it OK to discriminate based on sexual preference?

Let's not mix secular law of the land with your particular religious views. What a certain religion has to say about gays access to a marriage certificate, with the legal benefits that entails (inheritance, tax breaks, etc.) has nothing to do with what the law says/should say in this country (and apparently also in S.Africa - good for them).