Who is right? Who is wrong?

Topic: Human Rights v. Majority Rule

What the majority thinks has always been an issue with me. What if what I feel is not what the majority feels? Am I wrong? Who is to say that what I feel is right or wrong. Each one of us thinks differently and acts differently about things so that we are not all robots. Some people say that you should not do things because God does not want you to, but God gave me a brain so that I could think for myself.

The first issue that comes up for me is the idea of living with someone before you get married. I have always believed that you should get to know a person inside and out before you are going to spend the rest of your life with them. You can love someone unconditionally but you may not be able to live under the same roof as them. You will not know that until you test it out. Outsiders would say that you are sinning against God, but only you know what goes on in your own relationship. I believe that once you are an adult that your parents can give you advice, but they should not be able to tell you what to do anymore. It is your decision.

As for homosexuality, I have quite a few friends that are of the gay community and I don’t look at them any different than I would of a heterosexual person. What you choose to do with your own life is your business and I am not about to judge anyone. Members of the gay community should have the same opportunities as everyone else. What if they didn’t tell you that they were gay? Some gays have no flamboyant tendencies and you would never know that they liked the opposite sex. They are judged based on their sexual preference? We are in 2007, that kind of stuff is portrayed on television now, why haven’t we gotten past it? Just because a person is gay, it does not mean that they are going to impose there values and beliefs about homosexuality on anyone. They will not try to force themselves on to you. There are just like heterosexuals, they just like the same sex.

I was raised that if you are to say that you are gay, then you are condemned to hell. As I have grown up and established my own beliefs, I now know that being gay is not to spite anyone, it’s a way of life for some people. Just because someone does something that is against the majority rule does not mean that they are scarred for life. The may be just different that others. Once again, we are not robots. We are individuals making decisions based on what we believe and trying not to follow the crowd.

I believe that there is a time and a place for everything. Gays should not hoot and holler at every restaurant, every concert they go to, or every class that they attend. But when you want to get your point across, you do it.