Today, on National AIDS Awareness Day, I'd like to put out a little public service address that probably won't ever reiterate down to the people that really need to hear it. We as a nation have seen the scars of the civil rights movement that took too long to happen, and women's sovereignty, which took until the 1920's for voting privileges for females to take place. Now in they year 2011, we still face many great problems in defending our people's individual rights.
Here, in New York City, it isn't fully accepted but more people are pretty much okay with the idea. In some parts of the country, they still haven't figured it out. Guess what? Some human being are born left handed and some are born with an genetic gene for baldness, and some are BORN GAY. Yep, they didn't just decide one day to be a homosexual. Did they get to choose to go through life with peers who thought they were weird and bullies who beat the shit out of them? No, if we had that option we'd all choose to rich, white, straight men to avoid all the ridicule.
I'm not really sure whats going down in the Bible Belt or the areas of this country where the Tea Party is taking over, but it seems as though there are a lot of Americans who still hold a ton of hatred in their blood. Call me a liberal, but isn't now the time to move forward. It's makes me sad to think that more than 50% of our nations citizens still believes in these ideologies that we call Christian or religious. This is one more reason why we are falling to the back of the pack. Instead of worrying about real actual problems we are focused on minuscule subjects such as these matters. It's almost as though we don't want to move along.
In the past couple of years I have read articles where scientists believe it is genetics that cause are sexuality. I have heard testimonials of children who were raised by gay parents and turned our better than most other kids. We have seen gays and lesbians become our elected officials and role models. We have seen our people in more liberal areas accept teenagers admitting that they are attracted to the same sex, and seen parents accept them for who they are.
Many great success stories have been made, but we still have these acts of predjudice happening every day. Where parents teach their children that homosexuality is a sin and these students go on the beat up their classmates, or worse, cause them to take their own life. We have preachers and politicians who further spread this hate, and act upon it in legislation. How do you expect our younger generation to act when their leaders are teaching them these so-called facts?
While it is easier for someone to come out of the closet in today's age, their are still many scared individuals who keep their secret hidden. Our soldiers who fight for our country, our teachers who educate our children, and all the others who are afraid to lose the careers they love, because of who they love.
We are a country who has been taught to live in fear. It looms over our head every single day. While our leaders don't seem to afraid of a great economic black hole they continue the spread the message that homosexuality will some how spread like a disease. I'd like to tell them that it doesn't work that way. Go read a Goddamn book, and stop picking out lines that work for your cause. If we wanted to we could pick out some passages where God taught us to love all men, no matter who they are born as.
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