Gay rights is today's civil rights battle

When my perceptive grandfather was a labor organizer in the South in the 1910s, he wrote Samuel Gompers, head of the AFL, that "black people want the same things for their families that white people do."

I have always been proud of that.

Similarly, I would remind Ken Libowicz of Hoffman Estates (Fence Post Jan. 31) that homosexuals want the same things for their families that heterosexuals do."

And they should have them.

Margery Frisbie

Arlington Heights