Please Stay Out of My Bedroom and I'll Gladly Stay Out of Yours!
Please, Stay out of my bedroom and I'll gladly stay out of yours!
Personally, I must admit, I am so tired of having to defend gay rights. Too often I see yet again, whether in my community or in the news, another small minded American, a member or group of members belonging to our society , cower behind their religion while wagging their finger in disapproval at same gender relationships. It has become increasingly more difficult for me to witness these attempts to condemn my fellow Americans, whether by the denial of their earned rights, the breaking of US laws on a daily basis through acts of discrimination, and the allowance of trivial, inaccurate stereotypes, portrayals & statements to be circulated through the media.
As a Proud American, I find all of this infuriating, tragic and so very disappointing. Using religion as an excuse to justify a point or to assert authority over another equal member of our society is pathetic and should not be allowed.
I won't get into my own spiritual beliefs but I am put off by the notion that Jesus is really pushing for segregation and discrimination among men and women, “His Children” , well, my Jesus isn't.
I am not sure that Jesus is very proud of all of the self proclaimed "Christians" who feel that they have the right to chastise and judge homosexual men and women based on narrow minded thoughts, irrational fears and a basic lack of knowledge, all the while spending substantial amounts money to build and expand luxurious church buildings in comparison to what is spent by churches to assist the vast amount homeless and starving children in this very country. By Christian belief, wouldn't it be correct to help God's Children rather than to build more alters?
I won't even bring up the amount of mistakes made by the churches in America, I don't believe I need to- they are widely publicized and I believe it is in the book of Matthew (7:1) that says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged"? Interestingly enough, this familiar religious law is not being practiced very well by many of its followers.
What is disgraceful is hardly the choices homosexuals make, it is the unhealthy obsession with those choices on part of those opposing them and the idea that who someone loves should deny them any rights or freedoms as a human being.
I am confused as to how it is logically or morally correct that a homosexual man or woman may pay taxes, vote in elections, risk their lives by fighting for our freedom in wars, abide by federal & state laws, obtain a drivers license, etc., yet when it comes to marriage, they are often denied this right? It seems that all opposing gay marriage use their interpretation of Christianity and the Bible to forbid this sanction. Assuming that this is correct, may I then ask how a Buddhist wedding or a simple, non-religious, court-house wedding ceremony is legally acknowledged by 100% of the states in our country but a marriage between two people of the same gender is only acknowledged in a mere 38%? That leaves a vast 62% of states denying basic human rights and equality among the citizens in our society.
With the American divorce rate ever-rising, what is this exclusive privilege that we are denying our fellow Americans? The right to love each other? The right to share a home? To raise a child? To have joint finances and pay taxes as a unit? To start a family business as a married couple? The right to share the same surname? The right to divorce each other if it doesn't work out? Exactly what is the extraordinary benefit these Americans are being denied? It just does not equate.
The same hard-working, law- abiding, respectable American citizens that have followed our countries demand, following through with every other US rule, regulation and rite of passage- only to be denied their equally earned right to wed whom they choose?
I find it pitiful that in 2014, in the Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave, many of our well deserving, entitled citizens have to fight such a battle on a day to day basis, just to be recognized as an equal member of society. I might add that these same citizens, fighting this daily battle, in the same society they were raised in, have paid taxes to develop, etc., Somehow manage to continue walking with grace, respect, and pride. I respect the nobility in this behavior, as I cannot say that I would find it easy to do the same.
It is every American's GOD given right to be treated equally and it is such an injustice that any of this is at all acceptable.
To every American that opposes Gay Marriage/ Rights: Please, Stay out of my bedroom and I'll gladly stay out of yours!
-Christy Chilton