gay civil rights cnn | "Are gay rights the same as civil rights," CNN anchor Carol Costello asked CNN contributor LZ Granderson."Absolutely," Granderson replied."I don't think that it's equal to the civil rights movement," Granderson continued "I think they're different movements." He added that the debate over gay rights is international and cannot be tied directly to the American civil rights movement."This notion of what is civil rights is not U.S. and it's not just tied to the civil rights movement," he concluded."The question is wrong," said longtime CNN contributor Roland Martin when asked if he agreed with Granderson. "It's not a question — is gay rights civil rights. Is the gay rights movement the same as the black civil rights movement? That is the distinction."Martin says that white homosexuals in the Jim Crow-era South enjoyed greater rights than their African-American counterparts. Women, people with disabilities, and other minorities also enjoy civil rights victories, but those victories are distinct from the civil rights movement, Martin said."A women's movement, a disabilities movement, a gay movement, a black movement — those are different movements, but the umbrella actually comes under civil rights," Martin concluded.Costello asked conservative activist Amy Kremer if gay rights were actually human rights. She responded by saying that the tea party does not get involved in social issues because they lost badly in the last election cycle when they did. She added that the church and states should be the institutions that determine which couples should be allowed to marry, not the federal government.
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