LGBT Suffrage

 

The issue of gay marriage has sparked a controversial debate amongst Americans whom have conservative traditional values. Homosexuals are seeking marriage reform in congress and on the state level and it seem as if now more than ever, people have so much to say about homosexuality for one reason or the other in America. Food For Thought Our Nation was founded on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and has been coined the land of the free. Society now takes these unalienable rights and makes one of the freest countries in the world a walking contradiction. To live in America is to have freedom to do, say, and live as we please but for a man or woman to openly seek marriage with a member of the opposite sex is a problem to most American citizens. Being an American means exercising your free will to choose a partner of your choosing while believing in the equality of these opportunities to everyone regardless of their sexual preference. Values and traditions change across lines of gender, race, culture, demographic, and region. People’s values and traditions are different so trying to eliminate the customs or beliefs of another’s is unconstitutional and is no one’s business. As citizens whom enjoy the idea of free will, press, speech, and religion it is not our duty to deny these same freedoms to homosexuals in regards to marriage. The life of a homosexual person is none of my business neither is it anyone else’s, so who are we to say you cannot marry the person you love. Most of the time when people have issues with gay/lesbian marriage it is based off religious reasons however, how many people are really living by the commandments of the bible? Also how many people share the same religion and how many different religions are practiced in the United States alone? If the teachings of the bible are determinants of legislation then things such as war and capital punishment would be unconstitutional. As a nation we fought against injustice for certain freedoms why should we deny the LGBT community the same?