Where does one start.
All over the media these days, there is something about gay marriage or civil unions. At what point does the topic of civil rights come in. Tonight, after a meeting my boyfriend and I attended, I started to think about how I have become part of a group of legal minorities in the country. I pay my taxes, vote, I separate my recycling. However, our not elected by the popular vote President, has decided to make it his passion to try to justify discrimination. I thought it was bad enough that he started a war, after his father couldn’t finish his battles that he started. Now, it has been brought to our attention that his “honorable” military experience is a sham. The point I find most interesting, he tells the nation that he would have gone overseas at the time of war when he was in the Air Guard, except for the fact that he checked a box that he didn’t want to go overseas.
But back to me being a minority. I can’t marry the man I love. We try to live the American dream. We bought a house this past Summer. Since we can not marry, if there was something to happen to me, there is not guarantee that he would keep the house that is ours. Or anything else that belongs to “us”.
This debate isn’t if you agree with the issue of homosexuality. The debate should be, do you feel discrimination is wrong. The founding fathers of this country did, as did Abraham Lincoln. Many other great people who molded this country to what it is today.
I voted for Clinton, not once but twice. He had a torrid past with the obvious, but he also must have had a few homosexual “feelings” since he pretty much fucked the gay community with “DOMA”.
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