by Kimberly Stevens

Created on: April 05, 2009

People judge gays and lesbians because they are different. A lot of people are afraid of people that aren't just like them or didn't grow up like them and they believe that gives them cause to judge. Even the most close-minded person could meet an individual gay man/lesbian in public and view them as just a regular or "normal" person but if that same individual is seen with their partner, they are suddenly "wrong." Too many people believe that being "that way" is a choice and don't understand why or how you can't just "get over it" and, again with, be "normal," if there is such a thing.

So many people in the world are quick to point fingers and, when they can't think of anything else to say, start using Bible verses as weapons. The vast majority of heterosexual people don't understand that homosexual people can love each other just as deeply and passionately if not more so than any other couple. I have never heard one lesbian or gay man say that they chose their lifestyle just as no heterosexual man or woman would say they chose that lifestyle. When people start to judge the way others are whether it be something as small as how they dress or fix their hair or something as big as how they raise their children or their lifestyle, generations of hate start to form and that's where the crime and violence stems from.

Just because you don't approve with the way someone lives their life doesn't mean that you should judge them or hate them because that isn't going to change anything. Homosexuality was once viewed as a disease, today we know better, but some people still look at it this way and believe that homosexuals can be "fixed." If it wasn't viewed as homosexual and heterosexual but just as one human being and another, don't we all deserve love? Don't we all deserve to have a family with the one we love, if we so choose? Don't we all deserve to marry and live happily ever after with the one we love? Isn't that the "American Dream?"

Life is hard enough as it is. Judging people just because you don't like them or don't agree with something they do makes life harder for everybody. Wouldn't it be easier to just let people live the lives they are going to live anyway and be happy and TRY to live harmoniously? Everybody is "different" in one way or another. That's what makes the world more interesting. "Normal," on the other hand, is relative. I'm not so sure that it applies to anyone. Or maybe it applies to everyone. Who are we to decide?

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