Comments | waya3k: Gay Rights

waya3k

Gay Rights

Oct 04, 2006 11:41

I have been seeing a lot of these little blurbs about gay rights come up. What two consenting adults choose to do in the privacy of their own home I have no problem with. However, I do fail to see why people who make a certain choice need or even deserve special rights in the realm of the governmental law.

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kellamaste October 4 2006, 20:25:32 UTC

They aren't really special rights. They are the same rights as herterosexual couples.

kellamaste October 4 2006, 20:27:26 UTC

Oh and it is definitely questionable whether or not it is a "choice" to be heterosexual. I tend to say no. Likely there will never be anything definitive (unless we manage to figure out what every little gene does and how it all really interacts), but I doubt it is a choice.

ex_sleek838 October 4 2006, 22:49:04 UTC

it's not special rights.

waya3k October 4 2006, 22:50:07 UTC

Then explain it to me in detail. Maybe I am missing something.

hwynym October 4 2006, 23:06:47 UTC

If you want to go out and marry the person you love and she agrees - you can do that - you have the right. If a gay person wants to marry the person that they love, the government says they don't have that right - except here in MA.

All the arguments against same-sex marriage have proven to be unfounded and yet the religious right is still lobbying government to essentially persecute those who are gay.

That's just one example. There are many other things, such as tax and inheritance laws that deny the same rights that straight people have to gay people.

GLBT folks are just looking for the SAME rights that anyone else has.

ex_sleek838 October 5 2006, 00:22:08 UTC

i couldn't have said it better, thank you.

kishpa October 5 2006, 01:00:39 UTC

I'm not certain which "special rights" you're referring to. Sure, there are some out there that want "special rights" - there are womens groups that want more rights than men, mens groups that want more rights that women, heterosexual groups that want more rights than non-heterosexuals and vice versa... whites that want more rights than other races, blacks that want more rights than whites, etc. Which are you referring to? Which rights is it that gay people seem to want that bother you or make you think they're extra special? And....are you sure that homosexuality is really a choice? And if it is, then isn't being a heterosexual a choice? ITs one or the other, right?