Why write about Gay Rights and issues?

     Why do I write about issues facing the gay community?  First and foremost, it is not because I am gay.  I am not gay.  It is because I am human.  
It hurts my heart to think that two people in love cannot get married.  And yet many straight people get married two, three, four, or even five times!  How will being gay destroy the sanctity of marriage?  It seems to me that the sanctity of marriage is being lessened and destroyed without the help of the gays. 


          It also hurts me to think that gay students are being bullied literally to death.  Children committing suicide for being gay?  Or worse, not for being gay, but for being called gay?  I think the entire world as a whole needs to change its attitude and outlook towards the people in it.  We are all equal, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, wealth, or otherwise.  At the end of the day, we all live and we will all die.  Life and death do not discriminate.  They takes us all.  And I just feel as though we should try to make our short experience on earth one that is full of happiness, rather than hate, discrimination and prejudice, and we should try to do the same for others.  It truly hurts me.


I will never make fun of anybody or talk badly about them: Not for their gender, sexuality, race, clothes, hair or shoes.  Or anything.  I think every person I pass by has someone in the world who loves them and deserves to be treated as a human.  Our society makes it such a socially acceptable norm to pass judgement on others.  It is wrong, and we are breeding future generations of those who will continue to act this way.  I think the world in general is in need of some intervention.


I hope to be lucky enough to have children and raise a family someday.  It is awful to say, but I hope my children are not gay.  I hope they are not gay because I don't want them to have to face the trials and tribulations that come with it.  It's unfair.  No one should have to feel awful and unaccepted because of who they are or who they love.  But, that's the reality of the world.  However, if my children are gay, I will embrace them tenfold.  First, if they are gay and have the confidence to tell me about it, that means they are also courageous, because it takes a lot of bravery to be openly gay in a world that doesn't want you to be.