I know this is belated to say the least, but hey, everyone needs their own pace to gather their thoughts on a subject, right? And you know, it's my opinon that as long as prop' 8 is in effect the subject is very much a hot topic.
It made me so sad to see that a state that I looked up to for being the first to allow same-sex marriage suddenly made a 180 and gave a slap to the face of all those who had their dreams granted just a while ago. Just a while ago. You know, some barely had the time to get married before that marriage was suddenly and without their consent cancelled. How could this happen?
So what made me finally decide to put my feelings on this subject into words? It was
this video posted by AntiquityDreams on youtube.
She knows as well as anyone can what effects this has on, despite what some people like to think, a large part of the population. A large part, I say? Yes, a large, and uneniable part of the human population.
To around ten percent of the human population, loving someone of the same sex comes as natural as loving someone of the opposite sex comes to the rest.
That means, and try to follow me here while I do the math, if you have 30 co-workers, that means you work with around three people who are gay. If you live in a family of ten and vote yes on prop. 8, not only do you have a large family, there's also a chance you're denying the right of one of those family members to marry whoever they happen to love.
If you CARE from the bottom of your soul about 50 people, by having voted yes you SPAT on the rights of about 5 of the people you profess to care so deeply for.
Okay, I'mma calm down. I made up my mind to not be confrontational in this, which was one of the reasons why I waited to write it.
I'm from Sweden, so maybe this doesn't affect me, at least not now, but still... it tears at my heart to know that there are so many people out there who are having their rights denied because of the personal beliefs of others. And yes, who should have the right to marry is very much a personal belief. As long as something doesn't affect or hurt anyone else it will always be classified as personal.
And don't anyone dare come and say it affects others.
Supporters of the prop' justify this discrimination by saying that "if we allow this, soon we'll even have people marrying their dogs," but really? how, HOW can they even think about saying that? This is a choice between two consenting human beings who love each other to the point of knowing they want to spend their lives together. There is NOTHING sick about that. Nothing abnormal or twisted.
(If you want to you can stop reading now. I'll just be venturing into my thoughts on religion and other, more far-fetched, subjects. If not; glad you're still reading)What's twisted is the way some people walk around pairing up all females with males in their heads, as if that is the only acceptable way. Like animals, to be paired up and bred according to what some think is best. "All boys should be with girls, and vice versa. All else is an abomination."
Abomination... I hate that word so much. Hate the very meaning of it. Hate its use. Almost even hate the people that use it.
Mostly I hate the way it has the ability of putting one person above the other. Make one holier than the other.
Ugh, that "holier than thou art"-attitude kills me inside everytime I run across it. Oh religion and its way of justifying opression with its interpreted view on what an invisible deity demands of its creation.
The thing is, it doesn't matter how you believe you need to live to escape the fires of hell. No matter what, it doesn't give you the right to tell people how to live their lives. As long as what they do doesn't affect or hurt anyone else it will
never give you that right. You have no right to force people to live by your commandments and religious laws.
I'm not going to debate my own views on God, not going to defend them, because it simply doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if God is a vengeful God, a forgiving God, or an all-loving God who loves His people no matter how they are. Even if it was the biggest sin, the one that makes God the most angry, it. doesn't. matter.
Because you have no right to decide who can be a sinner and who can't.
(all of this, of course, I say to the people who voted yes on religious basis. All others, please don't take offence)
Should there be a judgement day at the end of our days, then leave it up to each and everyone to answer for their own choices. At least they were given the chance to make their choice and stand for it. That alone, for me, would be a cause good enough to burn for.
Yes, you heard right; I, Sanna Forsberg, would gladly burn for an eternity and more if I knew that I did it standing up for my right to be me.
I don't buy it when someone tries to pretend they are doing it for the best of others, trying to "save them". It's obvious that the only reason you're doing it is because the thought makes
you uncomfortable. This isn't about "them", is it? It's about YOU. And it always will be. It's all about your own selfish beliefs and preferences, which you wish to push upon others. And yet you accuse the people who just want to be able to marry the love of their lives of being the ones to push their opinions on others? Since when did simply wanting to live life true to yourself become "pushing a lifestyle upon others"? Sure, there are a few gays and lesbians who are like that, who have the same "holier than thou art" attitude -- though in reverse -- that I was ranting about before, but they in no way represent the majority.
Really, there is no more of a "gay agenda" than there is a "religious agenda" or... Idunno, a flippin "pokémans shall rule the earth, lulz
DD"-agenda.
You know, I think all this hate bottoms in the fact that people can't understand what they can't themselves imagine feeling. To some who are straight the thought of having those feelings for someone of the same gender feels foreign. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's when you use that non-understanding to discriminate against people that it becomes wrong. The thought of
you being with someone of the same sex disgusts you, so then you interpret that as
anyone being with someone of the same sex is disgusting? The thought of marrying someone of the same sex feels wrong to you, so then you decide it's wrong for everyone? That's so stupid I can't even begin to tell you. I would never dream of taking away your right to walk down the isle with someone you both love and are attracted to, so don't do that against others.
Let's make this clear once and for all;Giving gays rights does
not diminish your own rights.
Homosexuality becoming accepted will
not make kids who aren't gay become so.
Passing prop' 8 will not cause "gay propaganda" in schools.
The curch does not have a monopoly on marriage.
Wait... what? Did I just say curch doesn't own marriage? Oh my, seems I did.
And I stand by it.
Some religious people like to claim that marriage is a holy institution granted to them by God, and that only the definitions in their holy writings are the ones that can pass. That only a man and a woman should be able to tie the knot.
Marriage has existed, albeit in different forms, in almost all cultures, far far back in time. Marriage is not always related to religion, there are non-religious marriages, so STOP CLAIMING IT IS.
I know someone who defends his view on gay marriage solely with the redundant line "it says so in the bible," and everytime he does I ache to rub what I just wrote in his face. And you know, writing this has just given me the courage to do so the next time. I shouldn't let fear keep me from defending a right that needs standing up for.
It so badly needs standing up for. You know that. To all you people who cared but never voted; where were you when it really mattered? Where were you when you had the chance to help out perhaps a co-worker, or that bartender who always remembers what "the usual" is for you, a friend, or even a family member?
It might not have affected you, but there were thousand upon thousands of people who were counting on your vote to make a difference.
As long as you thought proposition 8 was wrong, that should have been enough to get you out there and voting, no matter if a presidential election was demanding your attention at the moment.
Where were you?
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