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We’ve all heard stories about girls that dress as boys and so forth, and we might know a couple in our lifetimes. These people are true to the feelings they have on the inside, rather than allowing themselves to be held back by what they are born with.

Oh, I know, very few people seem to think this way. These people are labeled gays, fags, freaks, and so forth, but the thing is that they are what they want to be, which very few of us in today’s world can honestly say.

Just because a person is born a male does not mean he automatically lusts for females. Sometimes things just don’t work out the way people want them to, and this is what seems to upset society as a whole.

Now, as for “fags” as some of you would refer to them as, they are no different than anyone else. Just because they enjoy the company of the same sex rather than the opposite sex, should mean nothing to anyone but them. It is their life to live and enjoy as they wish, so I do not believe that anyone’s opinion but their own matters.

Besides the general gay issue at hand, people seem extremely bothered by the fact that many same-sex couples wish to be married. Do the people that not want them to be wed really understand all the things that come along legally when two people become a union? If one is sick, then the other’s insurance should be able to support their partner, no matter what sex they both are. If they wish to be with each other “unto death” then they should have those same legal rights.

Now, now, I understand that many people that are against this because being “gay” is not allowed, because of your religions. If that is what you think and you believe that marriage itself is a union between two people, law, and God—then it is understood that you want no part in them allowed in your churches, to be married in your churches, and to never have them donate money to your churches ever again. That will take care of them and keep them from you and your religion.

Well, there are some churches that are fine and dandy with same-sex couples, and I wonder if they really have so much of a problem with the marriage idea. I do not know from personal experience, so I do not have much to say about them.

Back to same-sex couples having the same legal rights as “normal” couples. If no one wants them to be able to wed, per say, then why not create something new that has the same functionality?

Without allowing them the rights as other individuals, are we not taking away some of their rights as human beings? Are we basically telling them that it is wrong to love, to cherish, to be—just because they managed to fall in love with someone of the same gender?

Perhaps it is time for us to all look around at the situation: There are happy, joyous gay couples in most places now, enjoying themselves the best they can. They can deal with what people say about them and endure the abuse, and still love each other for who they are. Everyone is distinctive in their personalities and I do not see what is wrong for one person to truly love another, no matter what the circumstances may be.

If we do not allow same-sex couples to have at least some of the rights as married couples, then we are holding them back from those rights. Whether or not one’s religion is in the way of that should not matter, because if God is real, then he will love everyone for who they are on the inside and how they lived their lives to the fullest, even if they had to change a few things to get by happily.

There is only one more point that I wish to bring up while I am on this subject: Adoption. Now, why is it that same-sex couples are not supposed to raise children? Is it that people really believe that the children will become “gay” just because they have two mothers or two fathers? If so, they should look around and check the grown children of couples that did raise their children that way. A lot of them are normal in every way, except they have a lot more tolerance than most.

To not allow babies and children that have no one in this world the right to a loving family, just because of the stigma that society has put on same-sex couples is wrong. There are children everywhere that are born that need that love and nurturing family setting, no matter what it consists of.

We once thought that marriage was forever. Some people still think this and will only marry once. Some do not believe in divorce because it’s wrong in their religion. If it is suddenly right for couples to divorce and get remarried as many times as they want in the name of the churches at which they respectively go to, then why is it that we still keep same-sex couples back from the doors? Why are they still not allowed to love in the open like other people are?

Being “gay” is not something you can catch. It is not like the flu that goes around. If you sit on the same toilet seat that a gay person sits on, you’re not going to catch it from them. It’s not something you can just catch: Some people seem to be born like that, while others just fall for that special someone—that just happens to be the same gender as them. Is that really so wrong?

This post was originally from my MySpace blog and the entry can be found here.