Wednesday, April 15, 2009
I support Gay Marriage
I support gay marriage rights because marriage, legally, is a commitment to each other, to love each other, etc... Why can't two people of the same sex make a commitment and love each other? Why shouldn't I support gay marriage? Isn't America supposed to be anti-descriminatory? I personally, don't see the reasons why the can't get married. Some people say that it will break social structure, and that if we keep letting things go then everything will go. I think that's very extreme. I think that the struggle to attain gay rights is like the struggle that African Americans went through. African Americans slowly got rights, state by state, just like Gay marriage. First Vermont legalized gay marriage, then Iowa legalized gay marriage. Hopefully, since since gay people arn't in slavery there won't be a war, but the process is very similar. As to prove that I support gay rights...I'm not sure how I can prove it. Of course, I'm not violent toward gay people, and a lot of my very good friends are gay, but since I'm not gay myself, I don't think I could prove it. I'm in GSA, so I guess one could assume that I support gay marriage. There are somethings, people feel so strongly about that it's impossible for them to see the other side. I think this might be it for me.
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Often people who believe so strongly about such matters are those who were raised to believe it. I've been trying to understand the logic behind hating a group of people just because of who they love, and I haven't yet come to any conclusions. My theories, though, are that it's simply a well-known doctrine of many religious groups. I don't think those notions can be shaken from a person any more than their faith can because it's a part of their faith.
People can change. C.P. Ellis, though i don't think he made a complete and total change in his prejudices did make great strides for improvement. I don't think it's hopeless, but we're likely a long way away.
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