Maybe I am going crazy, but lately I am getting the feeling that since Barack Obama was elected, there seems to have been a general acceptance that we are starting to win the war against racism…at least in the Western world (I can’t speak for the rest of the world, that would not be fair). However, in the wake of this seemingly ending battle, it appears the the world is being confronted with a new critically important social dilemma; the debate over gay-marriage. Since Californians voted “Yes” to repealling the laws permitting homosexuals to wed, there has been a discussion on almot all major American and some minor international outlets. Why all of a sudden have people jumped the “anti-gay bandwagon”?
I have been reluctant to give my opinion on gay marraige in the past, because I feel that people should keep their feelings about such things to themselve, for fear of impinging the feelings of others. However, now I feel that I need to throw in my two pennies…
Firstly, I am not the worlds greatest believer in marriage of any kind…for two reasons: it has become a contract; and in the unfortunate event of it ending, it turns into a asset/money-grabbing ordeal. Basically…I feel that unless you are 100% positive that it is something that you want to do, or else very stupid, you should not do it.
In a previous entry, I posted a link to Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment…and I, as I rarely do, agree with him. Marriage is a matter of love. To add my own note; love is something that is hard to destroy…even infidelity has a hard time killing love between two people. But that’s just my opinion.
Getting back to my point. This current war against the LGBTG community is thrust into the spotlight as the new debacle in the world. Between anti-gay rights activists who say “it’s not natural”, to evangelical christians who say “it isn’t what God intended”…it appears that people simply need to hate an ‘other’.
For these people who judge and ridicule the LGBTG community, I have two questions: What did they do to you? And, what real harm do you think will come from allowing members of the LGBTG community to share the same happiness as you enjoy?
I find great difficulty in understand people who believe that just because one man wants to make an official statement of his love for another man, or that two women wish to do the same with eachother, that this is a bad thing. And take god out of the picture for a moment, please. I need to be spared the “the bible says..” or “Jesus said…” because I don’t buy into that.
I don’t believe that a person doing something that makes them happy, which does not physically or emotionally harm another human, can be seen as a bad thing. Why deny people the right to be happy and why deny them the right to make an official gesture of their happiness?
Now that we seem to be overcoming, to a degree, racism (finally)…are we just designed to hate some people? Do we, the majority, have to have victims that allow us to feel good about ourselves? Do we need to overpower a group of people as a means of increasing the social status of our own? And is it part of the human condition, to make ourselves happy by making others unhappy? Is it such that we need to make up for the loss of having ethnic groups to belittle and deny equality?
