If two people are in a committed relationship, they should be guaranteed the right to live happily together. Why should two men or two women be deprived of this right, when they have the same rights as any other human being? Who is to say that because two people in love is seen as “unconventional” they should be deprived of our basic human rights? When two people love each other, whether gay or straight, black or white, people should be allowed to celebrate their commitment to each other in an official fashion; through marriage. No one person should be allowed to define what love is and who and whom we cannot love; as we have heard before “love is blind.”
We are a country based on the principal of freedom and justice for all. By limiting people because of their sexual orientation we are going against everything we as a country pride ourselves on. Homosexuality is not a choice; it is genetic, which means that homosexuals are born attracted to the same sex, as opposed to suddenly becoming attracted to the same sex. Being gay is part of that person’s core identity; it goes right to the very center of one’s being.
It has been proven that gay couples are more likely to remain together than a straight couple, yet we deprive gay couples of the right to marriage because marriage is defined as “between a man and a woman.” All homosexual breath, eats and talks just like every heterosexual, yet we treat them as a different “species.” Everyone is equal, yet we all share different beliefs and that is what makes our country so unique. Rather than shun the idea of gay marriage and homosexuality, we should embrace their bravado and desire to be together despite the judging eyes of the public.
