So far whenever I’ve written an article, I haven’t been filled with anger at the topic I’ve chosen. I try to stay neutral, but I think it’s time I take a stand. Because to tell the truth, the topic I’ve chosen today makes me very angry and disappointed in humanity.
I read an article about gay rights. It told the story of a man whose partner needed to go to the hospital. When they called the ambulance, the injured man’s partner wasn’t allowed to ride in the vehicle. Instead he had to go home to get some paperwork, and when he arrived at the hospital, he was informed his partner had died in the ambulance. “And he says that for the rest of his life, he'll wonder if his partner woke up and wondered where he was." (voanews 1)
Can you imagine that pain? That guilt? That never-ending wonder of whether or not you failed to be there for a person you cared about?
How dare the paramedics forbid the couple from being together? What does it matter they were romantically involved – usually couples are best friends along with being lovers. If my best friend needed to be driven to the hospital in an ambulance, I’d insist upon accompanying her. Was it because the men were gay? Why should that matter to the paramedics?
Honestly, straight people think gays and lesbians are screwed up, but what do they think about us? Don’t you think they think the same thing? They probably think just the reverse of what we do – “How could they possibly be attracted to the opposite sex?”
There was a demonstration in Moscow where gays protested the banning of having a Gay Pride parade. Homophobes gathered and actually – get a load of this – threw eggs at the protestors. (aljazeera) How immature can you get?! Gays don’t protest to straight people being together. They accept it because it doesn’t affect them in any way. What goes on in the bedroom at night is of no concern to anyone else.
Compare sexuality to religion. Why shouldn’t we have the right to practice what we believe? Where is there a difference in the two beliefs? Conservatives and Catholics “define marriage in the state constitution as the union of one man and one woman.” (voanews 2) They argue that a man and a woman provide a better household environment for children. Isn’t that subjective?
A) If gays aren’t allowed to be married, how can they raise a child together in order to prove the point above?
B) If they were married and allowed to raise children together, who’s to say they would be inadequate parents? Can anyone honestly say that all man and woman relationships are healthy? I don’t think so.
Anti-gays are teaching their children discrimination is okay. They aren’t setting good role models for their own children.
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-10/2006-10-30-voa44.cfm?CFID...
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A3C12783-2886-4A22-8A85-040521021...
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-03/2007-03-09-voa30.cfm?CFID...
I completely agree that he should have been allowed to ride in the ambulance. . I do not think that being gay should affect a situation like that at all.
I also completely agree that what goes on in a bedroom at night is no one elses business. However, sin is sin. whether it is between a man and a woman out of marriage, teenagers, three guys and a girl, a girl and a girl or a man and another man.
I do agree also that the discrimination is not right, the throwing of eggs, etc that is not the way that God intended for us to deal with these things. When Jesus met the woman who had been caught cheating on her husband she was about to be stoned to death. But Jesus says to them, you who has never sinned may cast the first stone. Of course they all had to drop their rocks. And I believe that is the problem today. We all have our faults. Yes, I believe that being gay is a sin. However, I have gay friends, and I do not love them any less for it. It is not my place to judge. The Lord will judge.
However, the other problem I do have, is that I have two young daughters, and gay couples are all over tv now, and out in public making out etc. I do not want my kids watching sexual related relationships between anyone, man woman etc. The gay couples on tv are everywhere, kissing, hugging, holding hands, and this I do not care for. I believe that the sexual relations of a couple should be kept behind bedroom doors. Because I do not want my daughters growing up to believe that their behavior is acceptable. It is not.
Jeanna Marie