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Gay Rights For All!


Seeing as it is 2010 and Iran has enriched uranium and Pakistan is flooding beyond belief, proving, without a doubt that climate change is real and is now, I fail to see how gay marriage is of any REAL consequence to the  people of the world.


However, the debate is raging and there are a great many out there who are feeding the flames of hatred based on their illogical and irrational fears. Fear of what... I honestly do not know, although in some cases I believe it is fear of their own homosexuality, but in other cases i think it is pure ignorance.


Homophobia is exactly the same as racism. There is no difference between the two.


The definition of racism is: "a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determinecultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has theright to rule others."


Change the word race with the word sexuality and there you have it.

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So, why are we okay with walking around being racist homophobes? Those that rely on the bible say that it is not the way of God, as he said the famous Sodom and Gomorrah chapter of the bible. Do they also believe that daughters should have sex with their fathers in order to have children if there aren't any other suitable men around to do it, like Lot and his daughters? Or do they believe that we should stone to death women who are not virgins on the night of their marriage, which is said in Deuteronomy? 


The bible also says that man should not masturbate, are we going to make a proposition and go to the polls for that too?


However, when you choose to invoke the passages of the bible that state marriage is between a man and women, it does not take long to see that in the not so distant past the church didn't want ANYONE to marry because they were afraid to lose their base of supporters, and I assume, their cash. In the end, people wanted to get married and so they did. Many of them were married for business purposes and some were married for love, whatever the reason, people made the choice and the church realized the people had spoken.


After the church had decided to put their weight behind marriage, they figured a way to continue to own it.  The church simply stated that marriage is all well and good, as long as someone from the church came and performed the ceremony in the name of god. If this special man from the church did not arrive and conduct the ceremony, your love and your marriage was doomed to eternal hellfire and damnation.


And bearing children you say? Well, like any great dynasty, you need followers and you need a continual influx of followers in order to keep your power. By banning birth control and saying that "God will decide when you've had enough children" they have been able to create a virtual army of followers. For the children of these families it becomes a normal accepted familial thing to do on Sundays, go to church. When your parents are preaching the world of God at the dinner table every night, it is hard to ignore and it becomes a part of your DNA. As all weird family habits tend to become... like how your parents sunbathe nude when your friends are over... you just learn to accept it.

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The most interesting aspect of this is not that it is specific to one religion or sect, but the world over. In the world of terrorism, this is how they build a militia.


The young boys from the poorest villages are taken to madrassas where they are preached at from dawn until dusk in the name of Islam. These boys are not taught how to read or write, they are only taught the word of the koran. They never read the words for themselves or are allowed to interpret it or think about it, only to memorize what they are told it says and use it to justify their actions in the name of jihad.


After these boys have gone through their training and have reached the benchmark approved by their masters, they are sent home. Their pockets are packed with cash and they are told to go fourth, take many wives and make many babies. Thereby, building their continual army.


Where is the difference between them and the churches of America? They might not be teaching people to kill, but they are teaching them to hate based on fear. There is very little difference.


So, why would you choose to follow something that isn't based on actual fact or reason, something that is based on fear and control? Why would base all of your values on another persons thoughts? What makes you think you are better than anyone else?


Gay or straight, African or American, who a person is has nothing to do with what the color of their skin is or who they fall in love with. People are not good or bad based on superficial information such as this. A persons value is based on what they choose to do with their own power. The way that they love the world and how they love themselves.


All of us are born with significant power whether we want to believe it or not. What we choose to do with that power will decide the fate of the world. Living in fear and reacting on conditioned thinking will only add to the destruction and decay.


If we allow ourselves the freedom to use our critical thinking skills we can easily see that a world where gay people or dark skinned people or even religious people are discriminated against is not a world we want to be a part of this issue ceases to exist. When we stop fearing that which is different from us and begin to embrace it the world stops being hostile and begins to become a place filled with hope and opportunity.


Religion itself is not the enemy, it is the people who abuse it's power and the faith others have in it.


If you want to make the world a better place, take a step back and really look at what is being said and why. Don't just accept what you are told, investigate, communicate and find out for yourself.


Once you do, you will see that giving the freedom of love, marriage and babies to the homosexuals of the world won't destroy, but instead it will repair it.

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