Equality for All - NYTimes.com "Push Expands for Legalizing Gay Marriage" (front page, Nov. 13) stirred memories for me. In 1958, the draft board summoned me to spend two years in the Army as the base journalist at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Ala. I was a Brooklyn native with a journalism degree and a year of newspaper experience. My duties included writing a weekly "News From the Fort" column for The Anniston Star. I couldn't believe how horrifically blacks were treated. I confronted journalists at the newspaper, the priest at the Catholic church and other local people I got to know. Their excuse for hate-mongering was pretty much the same as what I hear and read today as a reason for justifying the denial of equal rights to people who are born gay. I believe that we all have a moral obligation to demand equal rights for all people. BOB FISHER Encinitas, Calif., Nov. 13, 2012