To the bigots
who have kept marriage illegal in California,
Marriage is considered by many to be
a fundamental human right and is a point of happiness and pride for every
culture in the world. Why then, should 5.4% of Californians be denied this most
basic human right? This has been a hotly debated point of order in the
California Senate for some time and the bill to make homosexual marriage
protected by the California Constitution is repeatedly overturned. In a nation
that prides itself in providing freedoms to it citizens, and especially in a
state where many of the California natives love to revel in how progressive
California is, this is a grievance that must not stand.
Gary gates cited the 2000 California
census as having shown 5.4% of the population identified as Homosexual,
Lesbian, Transgender, or bisexual. (“Same Sex Couples and the Gay, Lesbian, and
Bisexual Population: New Estimates from the American Community Survey”, 5). That
equates to 2 million Fifty-four Thousand California Citizens. Throughout
history Americans have trampled on the rights of others. In the earlier 20th
century African American citizens were being oppressed. This is our modern
segregation. To the youth of today segregating the African American Portion of
our society sounds absurd and outright blasphemous. To the youth of tomorrow
those preaching against gay marriage will be seen as the equivalent those that
beat and spat upon those black students who were the first to attend a white
school, in other words monstrous and lacking empathy. How would you feel if we
suddenly as a culture decided that marriage was defined as union between a man
and a goat, and your marriage was now invalid?
The typical argument against gay
marriage is that it is a union between a man and a woman. This definition was
adopted from the biblical variation of marriage, holy matrimony.
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