To be honest with you, I'm not completely sure why people are prejudiced at all, much less at gay people in particular. I have no personal prejudice against them, and I think they should just be treated the same as everyone else. And there's no need to treat gays like they are something special or better than normal, either. But yet you still see and hear people making fun of gays, even using "gay" as an insult to annoy their friends. This is all fine and dandy if it's on the schoolyard (sometimes kids don't even know what they're saying) but you can see grown human beings making fun of gay people, even business owners refusing to give them service, treating them like they're some sort of monster. A prime example of this is the county clerk in Kentucky that refused to marry two gay man, despite that being against the law, because "it violated her religion" and it "violated the sanctity of marriage". She's one to talk about sanctity of marriage, considering she has been divorced three times. Violating her religion is a somewhat legitimate excuse, but only because it is instead deflecting the blame on to some religion's intolerance of gay people. Which is unexceptable, considering this intolerance is coming out of a book that is thousands of years old. It is time for CHANGE, and the change starts here, with being able to simply tolerate, if not accept, gay rights and gay marriage. Tolerance leads to acceptance, and acceptance leads to not even realizing there was once discrimination against any race, religion, sexual preference, gender, or anything else.
I agree!! Humans are doing pretty bad things in this world( like crime)and the fact that they give this topic more attention then other things that have more value like saving water and stopping bullying is very upsetting.
ReplyDeleteWow this is very interesting. I agree on how you said,"This is all fine and dandy if it's on the schoolyard (sometimes kids don't even know what they're saying) but you can see grown human beings making fun of gay people, even business owners refusing to give them service, treating them like they're some sort of monster." Adults should know better than to make fun or treat others differently just because they seem different then themselves.
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