by Mathew D. Staver

About the author: Mathew D. Staver is president and general counsel for the Liberty Counsel, a conservative civil liberties education and legal defense organization dedicated to preserving religious freedom.

The federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for future civil rights laws. The two driving forces behind the Civil Rights Act of 1964 arose primarily out of discrimination against African-Americans and women. Homosexual activists are attempting to hijack the civil rights train by claiming that homosexual behavior deserves the same special protection granted to racial and gender minorities. However, other than mimicking the rhetoric, the sexual preference movement has nothing in common with the civil rights movement.

Prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the states ratified the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, which were...