I'm for gay marriage. I'm sitting here watching MTV News Now about it and I'm pretty pissed. Anyone that knows me knows I am not gay. But I have some pretty close friends that are and nobody has a right to deny them marriage.
First of all, people are going on about how "the founding fathers did not write the constitution to allow for gay marriages" blah blah blah. Okay, well they weren't really in favor of a lot of things back then. It's 2004 okay? Things are just a little bit different now. In 1968, a poll showed that people were against interracial dating. They thought it should be a crime for a white person to marry an Asian but that has changed. Now it should be legal for a man to marry a man. I'm able to admit that I'm still a little uncomfortable seeing a man kiss a man because I've never actually been subject to that until recently. But I think they have a right just like every other person to get married.
The government is supposed to be about making the States better for when WE grow up. I realize not everything is about us because the majority of youth can't even drive a car but we all have opinions. And in ten or twenty years, WE will be the ones in charge and the government should check on what we think because if they put it in the Constitution that gay people cannot be wed, we'll just have to change it. They aren't really polling the younger people but MTV did and 55% were in favor of gay marriage. A lot of adults are as well and we should be taken into consideration.
Bush runs on a lot about faith as do most people. There was a clip of this group standing outside a church with a Bible in one hand protesting about how gay marriage is unholy. But aren't gay people protected by the seperation of church and state? The "founding fathers" thought that church and state should be seperate and atheists even tried changing the Pledge of Allegiance because it had "one nation, under God". Okay, so if they can change that why can't we accept gay marriage? Church has no place in this because it LEGALLY does not have a place in this. So all those cases should legally be ignored. Unless of course the government wants to change the constitution so that church is joined with state but they can't do that.
People are also saying that the definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. It doesn't say that. It says it's "having a husband or wife." Okay, so if a gay couple marries, they have a husband. The OR in there really sums things up. A person should be able to choose whether or not they get a husband or they get a wife. I realize that it really does refer to a man and a woman but if I see it that way, there's a flaw. It's all in how it gets viewed. Like in psychology we did this thing where Mrs. Collins wrote "Women without her man is nothing." That can be seen 2 ways. It could be "Women, without her man, is nothing." Or it could be taken as "Women, without her, man is nothing." See? It's all in how you look at it and I choose to look at the dictionary definition of marriage as having a husband OR a wife.
So now I've thrown out all church cases and all definition cases. What else is there? Moral cases. Okay, well you know what? That's usually based on church and religion. But take a step out of that if you can. I know it's hard, I'm semi-religious as well. But if you take a step back and look at it, gay people aren't aliens. They aren't trying to go out and murder people. They aren't even trying to change the way other families are. They just want their OWN families. Who would it be hurting if they got married? Nobody. You can't say they'd be hurting you because they wouldn't be. So there isn't even a case to go with.
We have so many discrimination acts. There's the sex-based discrimination act where you cannot be discriminated against just because you're a man or a woman. If there's a woman police officer, she has every right to work the most dangerous job as a man does if she's qualified. And they can't legally hire a man over a woman. There's also the race discrimination. Basically gays are the blacks of today. Seriously. It may not be as horrendous as it was for black people and maybe it isn't EXACTLY the same. But at the same time, it's pretty damn close.
Why didn't people want blacks to be equal with them? Well, for one thing, they were scared. And they thought that black people were a lower class. That they didn't have a RIGHT to be even with them. That's what's happening with gays now. People are scared to be on even terms with gay people and they think that gay people are wrong in their thinking. But don't gays have a right to legally be married? Yes, they do. Just like blacks had the right to be equal with whites and then gained the right to MARRY a white person.
They said on MTV that if it wasn't legalized now, it would be in 20 years. Do you know why? Because the youth of the nation can SEE that it's wrong to discriminate against gay people. Young people are more open-minded than almost all of the adults in our country and they can see the wrongdoing that's going on with the government opposing gay marriage.
If you look at it, the government is full of old people. Not necessarily 70 or 80 but the majority of the government is over 40 or 50 years old. I'll admit I haven't researched to actually find out but I saw a clip of the congress or senate and the majority of the heads were white and gray. So that makes them fairly old. Most of those people were around back when it wasn't okay for Asians to marry whites. Hell, some of them were even around when it still wasn't accepted that black people were equal. So you'd think that they would realize by now that it isn't fair to discriminate against anyone, whether it be because of gender, race, or sexual preference. It just isn't right.
Legally, gay marriage should be allowed. If you look at the pure, basic legal laws, gay marriage would be allowed. But now people are bringing religion and everything into it when there's no right. There's not one good reason why the legalization of marriage should not be happening.