Now that the majority have trampled over the rights of the minority…once again. They want to force gays and lesbians who were married to get divorced. Do people not have anything better to do? How does two loving people who are married affect someone else? And please spare me the analogies to two siblings marrying, people marrying animals and polygamy. Comparing homosexuals to any of these is an insult and shows the level of intellect of the person making the accusation. But I digress, we sit arounnd and let women get beat by their husbands. We encourage women to go back, we insist it can get better and that he can change. Yet, every other day this woman is beaten to a pulp. We force people into marriages because families don’t want to be embarrassed by unwed mothers and children born out of wedlock. We push our daughters to marry the man with the bigger bank account instead of the one with the bigger heart. We prefer a man on the DL instead of one who doesn’t hide who he really is. But when people actually love and care about each other, they can’t be married simply because they are both the same sex?
As the fight for the freedom to marry marches on, there are folks out there who want to rip families apart because of what theythink should or shouldn’t be. And spare me the religious argument. Yes, I am a Christian (see other posts about this). I can not stomach folks who say being gay is a sin, it’s wrong, etc… and are ready to go to war about it yet, do nothing about the appalling divorce rate. Being that 10% of the population identifies themselves as gay or lesbian and 50% of the people (straight people) who get married, get divorced I am not sure how going to all out war against gay marriage is an effective use of resources.
But I saw this photo project on the Courage Campaign website and I just had to share. It’s easy to make judgements and decisions about nameless, faceless people. But when you are forced to look into the eyes of a person before you start to belittle them, strip away their rights and otherwise call them 2nd class citizens, people tend to have a change of heart.
Check out the photo show here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/couragecampaign/sets/72157611501972510/show/
To learn more about what’s going on visit:
http://www.couragecampaign.org
4 responses so far ↓
Alix // January 6, 2009 at 7:12 pm |
How can they force people to divorce?
tami // January 6, 2009 at 8:04 pm |
i think what would actually occur is that the marriages done will be nullified…so the those who are married would no longer be, and they wouldn’t have a choice in the matter
glennishamorgan // January 7, 2009 at 2:23 am |
Yo this issue still pisses me off. It makes me so upset that when I hear about it and see stuff about it on tv it makes me cry. That’s how angry it makes me. Anyway we just have to continue to fight and enlighten ignorant people. We need to start more campaigns and speaking out.
Jonathan // January 8, 2009 at 12:49 pm |
This is an incredibly emotive subject. I harbour a dream of falling in love with a wonderful man and him and I one day looking into each other’s eyes while we say “I Do” or an equivalent. I can think of nothing more beautiful than to have the love you have for another enshrined in law and expressed openly in front of others. To think this can then be torn up and nullified makes me very angry indeed. Where’s the love in the hearts of these people is what I want to know?