It’s funny how something as natural as sexuality is such a big scandal to many.
While it is at least understandable how humans tend to deny and question things considered foreign, it has never made sense to me. It was never a question of denying anyone thier rights based on their beliefs, way of thinking, race or sexuality. Why bother someone about something they can’t do anything about?
I was raised Roman Catholic—now I tend to conform very loosely to Buddhism, emphasis on loosely—but perhaps it was the church or the region I grew up in that made me (and my entire family) so accepting. In the town I grew up in, the majority of people were Jewish and that was an accepted fact. Nobody questioned you on, well, anything—other than if you could get your dog to quit barking or not. It was pretty much a “to each his own” situation.
Now, I have both a sister and aunt who have partners and I find nothing wrong with it. What I do have a problem with is the shame they get for it—if they’re happy, what gives you the right to question that?
Again, I understand it is an issue of religion for most people, but I don’t believe it should matter unless you personally are gay, bi-sexual or any other kind of sexuality. Just because you don’t believe something, doesn’t mean you prohibit others from doing it; just because you do believe in something, doesn’t mean you should shove it down the throat of others.
It’s just like how most people respect other’s religion or political ideology—because debate all you want, at the end of the day they too are a person with their own beliefs and unless you have some serious issues, you wouldn’t go to their house and murder them for being a Liberal or Conservative. You wouldn’t picket someone, telling them a God said to be kind and merciful hates them for being male or female, or anything in between. It’s just flat out wrong.
That being said, I think the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is a worthless bill. Government should have no say in what you can and cannot do when it comes to marriage—it’s the church you wish to get married at that can say yes or no and it’s your family that can approve or disapprove, not the government who claims we live in a free country. Just because you choose to marry a similar gendered human, doesn’t mean you should have be married “figuratively” or outright denied marriage. It’s thier own decision, and no one can deny it.
It’s downright shameful how easily the government will be swayed by the public – in this case, the rich Traditionalists who no doubt fund a majority of the senators and congressmen and women – and how easily a bill like this got passed.
The Preamble of the Constitution claims the government will “Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” The point of this phrase in the Preamble, and the constitution as a whole was to help protect the country’s hard-earned rights for liberty, unjust laws, and freedom from a tyrannical government. But if this is true, isn’t being able to marry who you want a hard fought, hard earned right? If that is true, why are people still being denied their liberties; why are they fighting unjust laws; and why is the government still denying their freedom? Not only does it seem unjust, it goes against all of our principles as Americans.
