There is a big debate in this country about what rights gays have, but why the debate?

Although I am straight, I am FOR gay rights.  I have not always felt this way, but after meeting a few gay people and finding out that they really are no different from you or me, I realized that I was being a bigot, so I adjusted my attitude. 

I use the term "we" loosely in this hub.  I do not want to appear as though I was not once guilty of negative thoughts and feeling fo my own.

ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL...

This statement has been one of the foundations that we want our country built on. Then why is it that every time we come across an individual or group of individuals that are different in any form that we make a point in making a stand against it?

Gay people are just people. Their sexual orientation is a part of who they are; not who they are. It's just like singling out a person who is black (or overweight or white or Hispanic or poor or rich). Is it right to do that?

There was a time in this country that I would not have been allowed to vote because of my skin color. There was a time when I would have been refused certain jobs because of my gender, Leaders in our community took a stand to change that because they felt that my rights were being unjustly taken. How is this any different? Aren't we doing the same to gays?

Then there is that. Why are we constantly referring to them as "gay people". They are just people that happen to be gay. They are not some sub-species that was placed here by some alien source. These are people with lives and feelings who deserve to be treated as individuals. They should be looked upon according to their individual personalities rather than according to their sexual preference. Will that matter if they go into a store to spend their money? Will that matter when they pay their taxes? Will it matter when they are cooking food in restaurants or defending someone against a capital murder charge? As long as they do their jobs and do them well, who cares, right?

Why should the subject of them getting married be treated any different. We Americans are just so intolerant of the differences of others. It is time for us to stop judging people because of their differences and take into account how they behave as a person.

...ANDTHE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

I know that I am constantly looking for love and happiness in my life. While I realize that all that has to start from within me, I also know that life becomes more meaningful when you have someone to share it with.

Those of us who are romantics believe that love has no boundaries. Yet we are trying to set boundaries on a group of people who all have their own reasons for living the lives that they live. Is someone going to tell me that I canot marry because I am black? Will any of you ever be told that you cannot marry because you have Caucasian? An ex-con? An alcoholic? An atheist? Catholic?

I think that you are getting my point. Why deny a whole big portion of our nation that cannot pursue their happiness and live their lives in matrimony to those they love? That's what's happening?

Gay people are just people. They have the same rights as all others- or at least they should.

Is a same-sex marriage an abomination against the BIBLE. There are two ways to look at this. While it is true that GOD made Adam and Eve. HE made a man and a woman and put them here on earth to procreate. No where in the BIBLE does it say that two men or two women are to marry, but try looking at it this way.

GOD created man. HE knows every life and every heart. HE has a plan for everyone that he created. HE knows what we do even before we do it. If you look at it from this point of view, would it not be easy to see that we have progressed from what HE originally created.

HE didn't create us to fly, but airplanes were invented. HE didn't create us with artificial limbs, but there are so many that have benefited from prosthetic legs and arms and such.

What am I saying? I am saying that gay people are just people. Our reluctance to allow them to marry and live their lives as they chose is just wrong. We are just using the BIBLE as a crutch to force our narrow-minded view on people who only want to live share their lives with the people that they love.

Let's not do that. When judgement day comes, let GOD make the choice of who was right and who was wrong. We were a country founded on the belief that ALL MEN were created equal. We should follow the path that our forefathers set before us. Don't persecute this group of PEOPLE just for the sake of a religion that many of us already take for granted. We sin everyday, but we are not being constantly persecuted because of it. Why do it to someone else?

I am not a professional in this field. I am just a person who believes that we should treat others the way that we want to be treated no matter what their sexual preferences may be. We have no right to judge them or to take away their rights.

Tootles!!