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I am one of the few straights who supports gay marriage. Prepare for a semi-long read.
Where do we get our anti-homosexuality attitude? That's right. The Bible, and get this: The Bible does speak of homosexuality being a sin, but it also speaks of morals such as tolerance and acceptance. I told this to a family member, and she said "Not on that, though." Wtf? If anybody, ANYBODY, can think of a vurse in the Bible that makes and exception on acceptance for gays, please give me the vurse adress and the wording to the best of your memory so that I can look it up. The Bible also speaks of not judging people, so that law was put in the Bible for God to enforce, not us.
When the Constitution was first written, the Founding Fathers set up a system of government that, they hoped, would always reflect the will of the people. However, the anti-federalists were worried about minorities. To compromise, when the Constitution was adopted, the First Congress passed ten amendments to it in 1791 called the Bill of Rights, which would prevent the federal government from doing certain things, even if the majority felt the government should do them. One such amendment is the Ninth, which protects all unwritten rights. Don't you think forbiding gays to marry is a violation of a ninth amendment right to marry who you want? Now before you go saying "They CAN marry who they want, as long as it's somebody of the opposite sex," I want to point out that if two men or two women want to get married, but can't, then technically, they can't marry who they want.
The next piece of writing I would like to talk about is the Declaration of Independance. In it you will find the phrase "All men are created equal, and we are bestowed upon by our creator with certain, unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." How do you expect gays to live happily and with liberty the way we straights treat them?
Plus, it's not like they chose to be this way. Despite what the Christians brainwash you into thinking, homosexuality is NOT a choice. Any gay you come across will tell you that they didn't choose to be gay. It chose them. Do you have any idea what gays would do to be either straight or accepted? They'd probably give up their citizenship, along with all their constitutional rights.
My 45-year-old mother is a devote Christian. She opposed gay marriage like she opposes murder. However, when I asked her "Would you befriend a gay?" She immediantly spat out "Yes. I'm not going to hold that against them." I came back with "Well, if you accept them, why won't you deny them basic rights, like to marry?" To this day, she hasn't found a comeback to that, and that's when I was sixteen.
Just my two cents. Let the debate BEGIN!
Where do we get our anti-homosexuality attitude? That's right. The Bible, and get this: The Bible does speak of homosexuality being a sin, but it also speaks of morals such as tolerance and acceptance. I told this to a family member, and she said "Not on that, though." Wtf? If anybody, ANYBODY, can think of a vurse in the Bible that makes and exception on acceptance for gays, please give me the vurse adress and the wording to the best of your memory so that I can look it up. The Bible also speaks of not judging people, so that law was put in the Bible for God to enforce, not us.
When the Constitution was first written, the Founding Fathers set up a system of government that, they hoped, would always reflect the will of the people. However, the anti-federalists were worried about minorities. To compromise, when the Constitution was adopted, the First Congress passed ten amendments to it in 1791 called the Bill of Rights, which would prevent the federal government from doing certain things, even if the majority felt the government should do them. One such amendment is the Ninth, which protects all unwritten rights. Don't you think forbiding gays to marry is a violation of a ninth amendment right to marry who you want? Now before you go saying "They CAN marry who they want, as long as it's somebody of the opposite sex," I want to point out that if two men or two women want to get married, but can't, then technically, they can't marry who they want.
The next piece of writing I would like to talk about is the Declaration of Independance. In it you will find the phrase "All men are created equal, and we are bestowed upon by our creator with certain, unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." How do you expect gays to live happily and with liberty the way we straights treat them?
Plus, it's not like they chose to be this way. Despite what the Christians brainwash you into thinking, homosexuality is NOT a choice. Any gay you come across will tell you that they didn't choose to be gay. It chose them. Do you have any idea what gays would do to be either straight or accepted? They'd probably give up their citizenship, along with all their constitutional rights.
My 45-year-old mother is a devote Christian. She opposed gay marriage like she opposes murder. However, when I asked her "Would you befriend a gay?" She immediantly spat out "Yes. I'm not going to hold that against them." I came back with "Well, if you accept them, why won't you deny them basic rights, like to marry?" To this day, she hasn't found a comeback to that, and that's when I was sixteen.
Just my two cents. Let the debate BEGIN!