Gay Marriage/ Gay Rights

I don’t mean to offend anyone’s beliefs on marriage, or religion for that matter, these are my beliefs and that’s fine if they are not yours. A great majority of people in this country believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. For some reason in this country homosexuals are looked at as second class citizens. Like the slaves that were forced to work our land in the early days of America, or the African Americans during the “Separate but Equal” time in America, homosexuals can’t change who they are. What a joke, Separate but equal, the Jim Crow laws were introduced in 1876 to remind everyone in the United States that everything wasn’t so equal.

Today, some people use gay marriage as a main point of why they will vote or not vote for a person to represent them in government. It seems kind off silly, that you could vote for a representative on one issue, because of all of the other points that a representative believes in, but It is an important issue. I didn’t live through the times in history that I previously mentioned, but for the time that I have been alive, people who are gay seem to have it pretty bad. When you read and see stories about people who are killed, or kill themselves for being gay. Some representatives and priests speak about gay marriage and being gay like there is something wrong with you. People and kids hear this and believe it, then they treat the people around them horribly for being gay. It reminds me of the persecution that the Jews have been going through since the start of time. Hitler tried to get rid of all the Jews and all of the gays, to make one supreme race. I know this does not deal directly with gay marriage, but it all goes together with what people who are gay have to go through, very similar to slaves. There was a story not too long ago, about a Rutgers student that was taped by his roommate while he was having sex, or kissing a guy. Everyone at Rutgers found out about it, because the kid that tapped his roommate showed it to a bunch of his friends, and when his roommate found out about the video, he walked to a bridge and jumped off to his death. When I was in middle school there was a kid, Peter Lurie, I haven’t seen or talked to him since High School, so I hope he is having a better life then he was when I last knew him. Peter was not afraid in what other people thought, he showed this, by the bright colors and the make up that he wore. For his own good, I remember thinking that I wish he would dress like everyone else, but he wasn’t everyone else and one day I can remember screaming coming from behind a wall on the side of my school. Peter was getting the shit kicked out of him and the kid kicking him was yelling, “God doesn’t love you” “faggot”, and other hurtful things like that. Only thing I was thinking as the teacher was pulling Peter off the ground is that something needs to change. Up until a couple of years ago, gay people couldn't even fight and die for their country. I feel like 50 years from now, people are going to say, ''can you believe that people actually used to care about a stupid of an issue as gay marriage, everyone should have the right to be miserable for the rest of their life."