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The Freedom to Love (LGBT relationships)
I absolutely don’t understand how some, in fact many, people have problems with LGBT (lesbian gay bisexual transsexual) relationships. In 2007, 1,460 hate crimes were officially reported. That’s an average of four crimes a day! Something should be done about terrible things like this, because LGBT relationships are not something to be discriminated against for.
You can control what clothes you wear, what food you eat, what you do for fun, and what kind of people you talk to and are friends with. But one thing that you can’t choose is your sexual orientation. It’s just wrong to say that someone is going to hell or is hated by God because he or she likes people of the same gender.
Hating someone because he or she is a lesbian, gay, etc., is, in my opinion, as inexcusable a crime as racism. As I said before, this is something that you have NO control over, just like the color of your skin. Nobody has the right to tell anyone else who they are allowed to like/love just because someone “can’t have babies” because of his or her sexual orientation.
It’s not a clearly defined right given to us in the Constitution, but I think that the Freedom to Love ranks right up there with the right to free speech and the freedom of religion.
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As a straight guy, what annoys me the most about the homosexual revolution is that instead of realizing that its constituency is a minority with a minority mandate, it tries to put its message in the face of everyone else who doesn't want anything to do with legitimizing homosexuality.
What I'm saying is, keep your sexuality and your intimate acts where they belong: in the bedroom. Straight people are really tired of the activism, the searing criticism of those who disagree with the homosexuality movement, and the expectation that EVERYONE is supposed to be pro-gay. It's turned into a kind of fascism. That's what everyone actually hates.
Of course you can choose your lifestyle, but as for sexual orientation, I feel that it's this simple: if you feel sexually attracted to someone that's the same gender as you, then you're not 100% straight. Each person's sexuality exists on a spectrum, and some would say that no one is completely gay or straight.
But we don't make the conscious choice to only be attracted to girls or to guys. All anyone can do is ignore those urges, but that's NOT the same thing as choosing whether to have them in the first place.
I was agreeing with you until you said that being lesbian, gay, etc. is like the color of your skin--uncontrollable. I'm a black, fifteen-year-old girl and although you can't choose the color of your skin, you can choose your lifestyle and sexual orientation.
Most straight girls have urges to be with other girls, but they fight it and stay with guys. Does that sound uncontrollable? I think not.
But, yeah, LGBT is fine--what happens in the bedroom stays in the bedroom, but if people will be all up in my face about being LGBT, there'll be a problem. lol
Thanks for all of your comments. I didn't expect this article to be especially popular; I mostly wrote it because I haven't written a lot of "opinion pieces" and this is something I think needs to be talked about. But I'm really glad to have people talking about it here, so thanks again!
And check out the other things I've written, if you like ^^
