Stand Up, Speak Out

The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal, yet people don’t think that everyone should have equal right such as LGBTQ people. It saddens me how people in the world could be so cruel and vile to one another we are all born equal and shouldn’t be treated in any disrespectful manner. Yet there are people who argue of how God made a woman and a man and that its “disgusting” to have a man with a man or woman with a woman. But yet God would not want us to judge one another this way and mistreat each other. In my school there are many people that I’ve seen mistreat LGBTQ people and are homophobic and it sometimes makes me really depressed because I wish they would not say rude comments about them, they are like everybody else. The problem at my school is mostly boys and I’m guessing it’s because they haven’t reached a level where they have to be mature, but my teacher once told me a story about her sister that was lesbian and that they still teased her in college, so maybe age has nothing to do with this sort of discrimination.

I believe adults are a big problem in this whole situation because they are stuck in their old ways and have this fear of change. In the past year there have been a lot of teenage deaths due to the fact that they were always bullied and discriminated against, and their parents did nothing to help them in any way. The people who pass laws are adults who are practically 60 or even older and they too discriminate against LGBTQ. I believe LGBTQ people should be allowed to have equal rights as any other citizen, they should be able to get married an even serve in the military. I’ve heard of this law called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” that was passed in the year 1993 and is barely under the process of being repealed by early 2011. The law made LGBTQ people that joined the army not to speak about their sexual orientation or they would be discharged. Now I ask myself how can people me so mean? But then I find the answer and it is: Fear. People don’t like change they like following the same tradition that have been around hundreds and hundred of years. Why are people afraid of change you ask? Well see when change occurs you really cant tell what the outcome will be, it will either benefit you or not. People don't like not knowing things they like keeping their same routine and order.

This whole topic about discrimination is very hard for me to understand for the reason that I consider myself pan-sexual meaning I really cant tell the difference between gender or race. I'm not completely gender blind like most pan-sexual's claim to be, but I really in honest truth cant tell the difference between a boy or girl. It infuriates me when I see people not treating them with the same respect as everyone else, because I just can not comprehend the difference. Our founding fathers once said that all men are created equal but yet why does not that entitle is to the same rights? LGBTQ people should be given all the same rights any person has such as the right to marry, serve in the military without hiding their sexual orientation. They should have the right to be able to mingle with other people, go to the supermarket, do their laundry, going to eat at restaurants without being looked or judged in a rude manner. I do notice that a couple of kids from the up coming generations are a bit more sympathetic towards LGBTQ people so maybe there is hope for change in todays modern society.