Wednesday, July 2, 2008

a response to "A Look At U.S. Government's" article "Conservative Views Inflicting Personal Beliefs On a Free Country"

While it is true that conservative views are keeping certain rights from being "legally-given" to gays and lesbians, there are two causes to this problem that are keeping the dream from happening. First of all the conservative view of politicians and lawmakers is preventing them from making the right judgment. Moreover, the conservative views of the said politician's supporters is keeping these rights to be given to gays and lesbians.

My view is since the Constitution allows marriage between straights, or to be more specific straight citizens, then it should also pass the same laws to its gay and lesbian citizens.

Anyways the principle behind this problem is that these people's conservative view is the essential source of problem. Therefore it is logical to remove the biased view, or to at least come to a compromise. Religion states marriage is set for man and woman, and modern interpretations have set this belief in stone. For most anti-gay rights, their main problem is that allowing gay marriage is a blaspheme in the eyes of the Lord. However this group, by not allowing gay marriage is essentially putting the gays under rule of majority (although it isn't true that anti-gay is the majority among Americans, anti-gay is the majority among politicians), surely something that the Lord did not wish for. While going against what is "laid as a foundation" by god can seem incriminating, everyone deserves to choose whether they will follow said foundation or do what will really make them happy.

Ethical reasoning aside, there has already been established a separation of church and state by the first Amendment. Therefore anti-gays need to come up with a better argument than God doesn't want it or it makes me squeamish and stop hampering what is right.

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