Nov 04, 2004 22:59
I've been posting this everywhere guys:
I don't want to offend anyone with this entry so I appologize in advance if I do and please don't take this personally because I'm not necesarily directing it to you.
Sometimes I wish I could rid the world of religion. I know this could never happen because people are always going to believe in something. I feel like christianity and some other religions is what is causing this country to be so divided. Homosexuals should be able to marry. The only reason that I hear against this is that God says it isn't right. Well when did God write the bible? Christians are pushing their faith into law by banning the right for gays to marry. I don't see how gay marriages is going to affect someone that isn't gay. This person isn't part of the matrimony, this person isn't part of the marriage at all so I don't see the problem in letting the gay couple marry.
I keep thinking back to slavery and the civil rights movement. Is the gay population going to have to fight for their civil rights too? Slavery and discrimination against black people should have never been an issue. Gay marriages shouldn't be one now. I swear, you'd think Americans would learn from past mistakes. Now that Bush is president, he's going to elect new court justices that will most likely share the same point of view that he does with gay marriages, abortion, and other controversial issues. Our future basically resides in the hands of these individuals in the supreme court. If I could wake up tomorrow at the age of 30 with some good law experience under my belt, I would stand in that courtroom and fight for what's right.
It isn't fair to keep other people from experiencing the greatest moments of life. Marriage is one of them. It seems like the only two reasons for keeping gay people from having a civil marriage is the bible and fear. Well those don't seem like really good reasons to me.
If the president wants to unify this country he should stop preaching in his speeches and should stop forcing his faith into the law.