Why should I be allowed as a straight person to get married
when a gay person can’t? As a
heterosexual what gives me the right to judge a homosexual and forbid them from
marrying one another. I’m not gay, so I can’t even begin to think of all of the
obstacles a gay person faces everyday. I think the world would be so much of a
better place if there were no such thing as the privilege of being straight.
Gay people get the short end of the stick more often than not. I think that
everyone should be treated equally and you shouldn’t be treated differently by whom
you love. One of my best friends in
high school was gay but he never told anyone but few of his close friends
because he was so scared of what others would do to him. I remember one time he
got grounded by his dad for acting “too gay”. Do you think a straight person
woke up one day and said you know what I think I want to be gay and get made
fun of in high school and risk not getting hired at a job because my potential
boss is a homophobe? No. Being gay isn’t by choice it's the way you are born. Why does it matter
if a boy loves a boy or a girl loves a girl? Gay or straight we should all be treated the same. You shouldn't be a privileged jsut because you are attracted to the opposite sex.
An unearned privilege that I have is growing up in a family where it wasn’t even questionable weather or not I was going to college. Going to college in my family was the “normal” thing to do. LSU was not my first choice, I wanted to go out of state and experience new things and meet new people. I didn’t have the best grades in high school so my dreams of going to an out of state school died fast when I applied to schools and go no scholarship. I came to LSU with a negative attitude and did not want to be here. After a year of being here and growing up I realized I should be so grateful for the opportunity. Especially with my grades in high school I am so lucky to be attending such an amazing university. I think that the privilege of attending college should be available to anyone who wants to learn. There are kids out there that would kill to go college but they cant because they don’t have support from there parents of were never encouraged to go. Why should people not be allowed to learn more after high school just because they can’t afford it? Education after high school should be available to anyone who wants it. Everyone should be able to have the privilege of going to college.
I chose to post one of my privileges as being straight and getting to marry whomever also. It truly does make me so angry that gay people can't marry the people that they love just because straight people deem it unacceptable. I hope that this continues on the path of change and this challenge will soon be over and done with.
ReplyDeleteI also posted about the privileges of being straight and how we shouldn't be privileged just because of our attraction to the opposite sex. Why should I be rewarded because of this? Everyone should have the right to marry the person they love no matter if it happens to be two people of the same sex. I don't have to be scared to tell anyone I am heterosexual, why should homosexual people have to be afraid of who they are? It's just doesn't seem right. Anyways, before I go off on a tangent, I agree with everything you say in this post.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your post completely. I will NOT get married until gay people have the legal right to get married in the ENTIRE U.S. Why should I be able to when they can't? I have debated with religious people and it usually goes like this:
ReplyDeletethem: It clearly says in the bible that religious matrimony of gays is a sin.
me: well some people are spiritual and believe that their God does want them to marry, and that he will recognize their union religiously.
them: well there is only one God, our God, and he says it is wrong. So you are WRONG.
I have been told this.. I swear. It blows my mind how stupid people are.
I completely agree with your post about the privilege about being heterosexual. It's a shame that people in today's society still think that two people who love each other, of the same sex shouldn't be able to make a legal commitment to it. Most gay people I know don't even want to be married for the sake for getting married and having a wedding like most heterosexual dream of, but instead they just want to be able to make medical decisions on the other's behalf in a time where they can't, or for insurance reasons, which only married couples are able to do. I believe there's a separation of church and state for a reason and this topic is a prime example of where these two have been meshed together and shouldn't be.
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