Is this the Birth of a Civil Rights Movement?

David Mixner's blog post "Is this the Birth of a Civil Rights Movement?" offers interpretation and inspiration from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" to the recent pro-LGBT protests and arrests in Washington, DC and San Francisco. 

Are these the beginning stages of a new civil rights movement? Are we willing to escalate our tactics in order to press those in power to show leadership and demand our freedom? I honestly don't know. But I have hope. I have hope that over the next months these initial actions will build to a modern day civil rights movement that is as unique as our community. The stirring for non-violent civil disobedience has been building since the National Equality March late last year. Most of it has originated within the ranks of our youth. Their impatience is a powerful message that the failure to make our freedom a priority in Washington is just no longer acceptable.

More Light Presbyterians is committed to LGBT equality in both the Church and in civil society. What might this blog have to say to us and our justice work in the PCUSA and in civil society?