Civil Disobedience

I am constantly standing up for my belief on gay rights. I know that this is a big issue in society at the moment and has been for awhile. A lot of my friends agree that gays should have equal rights just like straight people. There are people that stand up and say I am wrong like religious people or people that just don't agree. I always stand up for gay rights and support them fully but I never get so in my opinion that it turns into violence. I am always calm about it but I don't care what people think about me or what I believe. I mean I see it like this, back when America was in the midst of a civil war there were those that believed in slavery and those that did not. So there was a big war about it and slavery became illegal. However it wasn't for about 100 years latter that people started to realize that blacks should be just as equal as whites. I mean the United States has the saying that we don't have freedom until we are equal. This can apply to the idea of gay marriage and gay rights. How can America say that everyone here is equal and we are all free. That can't be true because gays don't get rights and it's not fair and it goes against their freedom so how is it that people can stand up and say America is where everyone has equal freedoms because that is a lie. No freedom until everyone is equal. Usually when people disagree about gay rights when I am around I will put my opinion out there and then see how it goes but I never let it get so out of control that it ends up in a physical fight. Everyone has a right to have their own opinion but that doesn't mean we should critizes others for their believes in a specific subject. This is a very big issue in today's society and I feel like it will be around until it is resolved like the idea of having slaves. I am going to stand up for what I believe in that everyone is created equal.