Monday, April 1, 2013

Equal Rights

            So the most recent hot topic these days is same sex marriage. There as so many people that say that it shouldn't be legal for those that are gay or lesbian's to get married to the person that they love. Then on the other side there those that are fighting to help make same sex marriages legal. Both sides have their own arguments as to why they are right yet personally I feel that those that want to make the commitment of marriage should be allowed to whether they are man and woman or even same sex. 
            Why shouldn't someone be allowed to make the commitment of marriage in front of their friends and family? It shouldn't matter if it is a same sex couple. Those that are in a relationship and truly love each other should be allowed to have the right to marry whom ever they choose to marry. All the reason's I seem to hear as to why it should be illegal to have same sex marriages is religious. It's all about the Bible says this and that against gay marriage yet these people seem to forget something very important. One of the reasons that America was first founded was for religious freedom and when the government was founded they separated church from state. If church wasn't separated from state then so many freedoms would have been taken from us. We might even still be living in an age where there was still segregation. Instead of trying to force your religious views on someone because they want to marry the person they love try actually doing something better with your time. Instead you could be fighting to help get rid of white extremest's or even helping with dealing with things as simple as people who are struggling to live day to day. Why waste your energy on something that makes you look like closed minded religious nuts?
            Would you want to have someone tell you that you couldn't be married to the person you want to spend the rest of your life? If you wouldn't want someone to take away something that you have the right or even privilege to do you shouldn't be doing it to someone else. No one wants to have another person's views shoved down their throats and told "either you agree with me or you'll suffer dearly for it". Everyone has a right to choose how to live their life whether it be gay, straight or even bi-sexual. Just because a person is attracted to the same sex doesn't make that person any less of a person. They aren't going to be going straight to hell for loving whom they love. That should never be a reason that a person's soul would be condemned. If anything I would say those that steal, murder or cause a human being harm would be the ones with the black souls. I'm not a religious person but I do believe that if you live an honest life you aren't going to go to hell for it. So how does being gay or bi-sexual mean that you're going to hell?
            Before you decide to tell someone they can't marry a person because they are the same sex try being a little more open minded. It's not that hard to just let people love who they want to love without making them feel dirty about it. No one wants to feel like they are disgusting and wrong for loving whom they love. Would you? 

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