by none288

Created on: September 11, 2009

The fact that women in heterosexual relationships still in some cases seem like the weakest link bothers me. The fact that homosexuality, a form of love just as legitimate as heterosexuality, could be deemed unnatural also bothers me.

Homosexuals do not need the "privilege" of being normal because they are already normal, were always normal, and will always be normal. Heterosexuals and most homosexuals need to see that and stop branding homosexuality as abnormal or unnatural. The search for human love and matrimony is legitimate and it should be recognized regardless of sexuality.

A homosexual's sexuality does not define who they are or make them abnormal or unnatural. There's more to people than their sexuality. Also, you can not love the homosexual and hate homosexuality. Homosexuality, like heterosexuality for heterosexuals, is a key part of who they are, essential to their core, their psyche, their peace of mind, their dreams of love in the present, past, and future.

Wherever there is inequality, whichever group that holds power, majority or not, will do anything to hold on to that power, the power to benefit from a system they feel entitled to rule at the disadvantage of those who differ from them. The group that holds power will justify their supposed right by labeling those that differ, those they fear might gain some semblance of power, with every negative (or pseudo-negative) label they can imagine. This is bigotry.

Trying to convert, bully or stifle a person's sexuality is trying to alter who that person really is, to change and destroy a part of who they are, to hurt them. I am sure that no matter how you define the word "unnatural" (in all the ways it can be defined) it is a derogatory label. No one deserves the label "unnatural" to be placed on their desire to love a fellow human being.
End of story.

Proposition 8 may have passed. Homosexuals can no longer marry in the wonderful state of California. Yet despite my doubts and cynicism, I have the audacity to hope that in the coming years such bigotry will be reversed and equality shall reign. In a country that went from Jim Crow to Barack Obama, I believe that such a triumph, such a change, is possible. Gays and their allies will come together in 2012 and put an end to the marital double standard. It's as simple as that.

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