Saturday, June 5, 2010

Gay Marriage

We are taught early on that when you love someone you get married. Who are we as a society to deny that right to gay people? Gender and sex should not matter to other people. Who people love and what they do with their love life is their business. Normally people don't interfere with relationships, unless it's race. Some people are touchy about interracial couples too. I'm not sure why other peoples private lives matter to some people. What do they think society is going down the tubes? Well it is and it's not the gays fault. Look at heterosexual marriages; they don't last as long as they used to. If anything is to blame I think it's the fact that people don't get to know each other that well before they marry. People need to spend more time getting to know each other.

Like Olbermann says they just want a chance like everyone else to be a little less alone in the world. I agree with that statement. Especially since we live in a society that gay marriage and being homosexual is taboo. They must feel so alone and lost; it's their right to chose to be in a marriage, even if only half of marriages actually last. I mean if they want those lousy chances go for it. He also brings up the point that up until the late 60's black people couldn't marry white people. Times change, it's a fact of life. If people still thought that way then blacks couldn't marry whites. The thought of that is just ridiculous and laughable. In the end the only thing that should matter is true love.

1 comment:

  1. It seems like you agree with Olbermann's impassioned argument in this piece. His essay raises the very important question of why the prospect of legalizing gay marriage is so upsetting to some.

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