‘Right to say “yes”’

‘Right to say “yes”’

On march 26^th, we will find ourselves in a situation that we have not been correctly addressing over the past few years. The subject of gay marriage is on the table.

On the 26^th, the Supreme Court will gather together and debate the reformation and hear appeals to change the state and federal same sex marriage laws. The court will then address California’s proposition 8, that was put in place to assure that even when in states where it is legal to marry the same sex, you could not be recognized on a federal level as a couple. This prevents same sex couples from having the same benefits as a heterosexual couple, thus seeming to discriminate against anyone who is in a same sex relationship. Depending on the result at the end of the day, this could be a major blow or step forward for the gay community.

 

I feel that this is completely necessary. People seem to think that just because their own personal beliefs are better than the persons next to him that they can regulate the standard of the population. It is almost stupid, how the United States can call themselves a free country with rights and laws, but still manage to discriminate against people who are exactly the same as everyone else, other than the fact that they are attracted to the same sex. How this is even a topic of debate is unbelievable and makes the US look more and more stupid. Why should a heterosexual couple have more benefits than a same sex couple? Are they any different under their skin? Have they done anything to deserve harsher treatment? Regardless of what any biblical text will say and regardless of what any beliefs are, people are people. And what just makes everything 100X worst is that we still have people with governmental power and standing in the system that feel the gay community are lesser people then “regular” couples. To put it into perspective, take this back 50-60 years. Ask a politician if he hates black people. Ask him if a black person has less right to the United States then a white person. Ask him if under the skin of both men, are the same exact copy of a human. Most would then completely brush this off, saying that these are racist comments and that they would never even think of such thing. Then tell him to look at today’s proposition 8. Ask him why gay couples have any less of a right to the United States then strait couples. It would be a sad day if this proposition stands.