Civil Rights is more than African Americans Rights

I am a native North Carolinian, the state where my roots are intrinsically linked, passed a Republican lead ballot initiative to Ban same sex marriage that will allow voters to vote on it May 6th. According to Infoplease, "civil rights, rights that a nation's inhabitants enjoy by law. The term is broader than “political rights,” which refer only to rights devolving from the franchise and are held usually only by a citizen, and unlike “natural rights,” civil rights have a legal as well as a philosophical basis. In the United States civil rights are usually thought of in terms of the specific rights guaranteed in the Constitution: freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press, and the rights to due process of law and to equal protection under the law." There have been several African American Homophobic ministers, Wooden, Fozard, Hunter, and The Fredrick Douglass Foundation's Daniels (Fredrick Douglass is probably turning in his grave, if there was such a thing as an afterlife), saying that same sex rights are not civil rights, if this isn't civil rights what is? If people sex orientation is not equally protected under the law, then how can race be protected? If they create an amendment that can ban same sex marriage and legalize discrimination against another citizen because of their sex orientation, who will be next? I plan to encourage everyone I know to vote against this anti-civil right amendment. Same-Sex Marriage is already illegal in North Carolina. State statute currently limits marriage to opposite-sex couples. N.C.G.S. § 51.1-2 prohibits marriages between individuals of the same gender. It is interesting the Republicans platform is about smaller government wants the government in our private lives, what hypocrisy. The Party of Lincoln fighting to discriminate and legislate hate in my state. I am amazed how history plays out. Think about. John D. Socrates a.k.a. The African Socrates