I had an odd thought…about once a minute to be excact. But this particular one has gestated just enough in my brain to become a blog post. Work with me here for just a sec:

Many people are comparing the current campaign for homosexual marriage to the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. Ok. Fine. But if we’re going to take this all the way…there needs to be some cogruity checks.

For instance, the movie “Milk” is being heralded as a big pin-up for ‘gay rights’. So…that would make Harvey Milk equvalent to say…Martin Luther King? Ok. But Sean Penn, the actor playing Milk, is not gay. He’s married (or was at least) to Robin Penn Wright. A girl.

So if this whole thing really is comparable to the Civil Rights Movement, wouldn’t the actor playing this powerful gay rights activist have to be gay? It would be like having John C. Reilly playing Martin Luther King…in black-face.

My question is…is there such a thing as “gay face”? I would think such a thing in our modern day society of sensitivity would be frowned upon. But if not, what’s Penn, an obviously straight man, doing in a movie about gay rights? Its a travesty to the whole movement. I say at least.

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