I don’t know quite what I will be saying, but I know where I will be coming from. Being gay is not something that comes over someone suddenly. It is not a disease. A person is born being gay, much the same way as the color of someone’s skin or hair, where they are from, or what type of family they are born into. I cannot understand why people are unwilling to accept gays for who they truly are, especially when gay people have nothing to do with their own lives or well being. All people, fat, skinny, black, white, Latino, diseased or healthy, should be able to live out their lives as they wish. Everyone deserves to have the same rights as every other person, and that includes marriage. For those who say it is wrong, why? Is every United States citizen not entitled life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Yes, people may say that if our nation were to grant the right to gay marriage under the “pursuit of happiness,” people could do practically anything that they wanted to do claiming that it was in their own “pursuit of happiness.” But many of these things are not in the same category as gay marriage. Killing or torturing others and marrying another person from the same sex are not anywhere close to being related.
I’ll develop it more, but this is what I’m thinking for now.
Although i do not totally agree that people are necessarily born gay or straight, i do believe that as they mature, and the brain develops, it is against their power to control their feelings. Its like the acquired taste of mustard or broccoli, kids tend to not like these things, but as they grow up, they learn to like it
ReplyDeleteI like the idea here, Sarah, of doing away with the notion that homosexuality is a 'special class' unlike gender or race or body type or whatever. Demystifying the issue of homosexuality (and arguing that it is NOT a choice) will help you make the case that it is simply a normal variant in the human experience will allow you to make the case that gays deserve the same right as those blessed with other 'differences'. (How does one protect the rights of the minority from the will of the majority?)
ReplyDeleteI love how you used other examples of people who seem "different" (overweight people, people of different races, etc...). I feel like that is a good way to appeal to the reader's emotions. Using the phrase from the Declaration is also sounds pretty convincing. Go giirrrll!
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