Another couple just arrived at their little home after a pleasant walk in the neighborhood park. The two are planning to expand their house to include room for a possible third arrival into their family. Obviously thinking about this idea, the woman’s hand shakes a little as she turns the handle of the door, but her excitement boils over before she can push the door open. Laughing, she turns and hugs the love of her life.
It’s not hard to spot the happier of these two couples, but it might be better to hear the whole story. The second couple is actually two women finally married and living a joyous life together after years of discrimination kept them from marrying. Is the second couple still your favorite? Or now do you feel disgusted by even the possibility of two people of the same gender being happily married? To judge a couple on being either straight or gay is a pointless endeavor; merit is something that must be based on the individual situation. If this scenario were reversed, it would be the straight couple who would be the better. I don’t hear any complaints with that situation.
Of course harmless gay couples threaten straight ones. If marriage was made available to everyone, then the good Christian couples would be brought down to the same level as homosexual ones. This might be difficult for anyone who still sees homosexuality as something like a plaque or social disease. And yet, it is not personal preference that should determine what laws our country upholds. Oh no, Equal rights for everyone? What is this country coming to?
As divorce rates rise further and further and instances of domestic violence grow more popular, can the straight community really claim that the institution of marriage can be even further desecrated by in the inclusion of gay couples? Well, they seem to be doing a better job of defiling its purity themselves better than the gay community ever could.
America has constantly battled with discrimination, yet history books seem to be teaching nothing to those politicians who studied them for so long in their prestigious law schools. African Americans, women, and now gays. When we learn that no matter how much radicals want to exclude certain groups from equal rights, the inevitability of American freedom always wins in the end. One day our children or grandchildren will read books about our time and the trials that homosexual couples faced at one time. With their big curious eyes they will look up to grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother and ask, “Did you guys really do that?” And each of us will have to answer to that innocent face with the truth, or simply deny it. As for me, I hope that I can smile to the future generations and say truthfully that I did my best to fight for the side of equality.
