Are gay people free from persecution in the USA? Yes, but how long will it last? There is no easy answer to the flooding of illegal immigrants across the US southern border with Mexico, but what does that have to do with gay people?

Look at Arizona. The state government there has just signed into law a procedure that allows the police to demand papers of identification of any citizen walking the streets of that fine state.

(For the record, this law has no chance of surviving court testing. How do I know? I keep a copy of the US Constitution on my desk, a document that apparently the majority of the politicians (and lawyers) in Arizona have never read or hold in contempt.)

Arizona can now break so many fundamental laws of American freedom that one hardly knows where to start counting. What happened to illegal search and seizure without a court warrant? What happened to "probably cause?" Unless someone was brandishing a gun, how would a policeman decide whom to question? Oh, I forgot. It is now legal to carry weapons anywhere in Arizona, presumably to churches, bars, and kindergartens. The only other cause for stopping someone would be the color of his skin. How unconstitutional is that? This is profiling of the rankest kind. Yes, I hear people say that they would not mind proving that they are Americans, but trust me, these are the kind of people (white) that the police would never stop.

The sad thing is that the wheels of justice grind exceedingly slow, and the basic free rights of legal Americans will be violated repeatedly in this historical (and hysterical) attempt to stop immigration.

In my life time, I remember when people in a "civilized" European country were required to carry papers to prove that they were not of the Jewish religion. Will we see this in the USA in our time? Isn't it paradoxical that the very people that are accusing liberal Americans of being Nazi are themselves adopting Nazi like laws?

When people start pushing and supporting laws that break the articles and spirit of our Constitution, no one is free. And these same people are, by and large, gay hating people. Will our time come of carrying proof come? Will they send gay people out of the country or imprisoning them? Some religious evangelists have made these very recommendations.

If you believe in the US Constitution, you have to obey its laws or amend them in the prescribed fashion, which is not the kind of knee jerk reaction of Arizona politicians.