Thursday, November 6, 2008

in response

someone sent me a link to a website about a christian view about gay rights. some parts of it i agreed with. the bit were it says that all humans should be treated equally came to mind. but the bit were it said that people can choose to be gay/lesbian really made me mad. i read in some science magazine that there was a study that proves over 80% of people are bisexual to some degree and don't even realize it. you can't choose to be gay. it's not like one day you wake up and think: "hm...i think i'm only going to like people the same gender as me and be discriminated against." honestly, if people could chose to be homosexual, do you really think anyone would put themselves through that? and it also was saying that people who have two parents of the same sex miss out on a normal childhood and are more likely to become homosexual. excuse me? studies have proved that children raised by two poeple of the same gender are more likely to be more tolerant and are just as likely to be homosexual as a child raised by a hetro couple. and the article also said that same sex couples are more likely to be unhappy than hetro couples. well, you'd be unhappy too if people were discriminating against you left and right...
and honestly, considering that over 50 percent of all marriages that church likes fail, maybe it's time to try something new.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i agree. previously marriages were restricted by race. this is similar. if people love eachother, they should be able to be together!!

Anonymous said...

actually, gay and lesbian marriages end in divorce only about 1% of the the time, while "traditional" marriages end in divorce over 50% of the time. When you don't have a guaranteed right to marry, maybe you make your choices more carefully. just something to think about. Down with prop 8!