Here's a copy/paste of a discussion I recently had for leaving comments for a video on youtube. I decided to share that with everyone because I believe it is an important subject to discuss these days.
So here's the link to the video about gay marriage and the long reply I sent to someone's comments on my initial comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u95a3Kp8lkg
(My initial comment)
Very bright and courageous boy! I admire that! I'm from Canada and here gay marriage is already legal and I think the US should really give up their conservative and outdated views and start going forward a bit...
(His reply)
dasenuff
you need to go back and look at your own argument..clearly you dont knowwhat you even write. gays do NOT deserve a special right. the right to marry is given to all...but not the right to pervert it.idiot boy!
dasenuff
'outdated views"... gays have always been in world culture..that pervers behavior is not "new" i dont think its 'out dated' to guard against gay perverse behavior.
(My following replies)
You said it, gays have always been there eversince humanity began. Therefore, it is a NATURAL thing. You're the one who should go back in history and you'd see that in some eras, homosexuality was considered as the ideal lifestyle. It only depends on what we decide is right or wrong as a society. Love, in any form, will never be wrong and will never hurt anyone, but homophobia does cause harm and goes against initial universal rights.
And that kind of discrimation came with the creation of religion. Religion means wanting everyone to be the same or "standardized" and that's very discriminating as we all have a side of ourselves or more that doesn't fit these standards. Reality is: everyone is different and diversity makes the world complete and balanced. We don't need religion to know what's wrong or good. Morals are guides, not obligations and they adapt every situation.
Bottom line is: be happy and follow your heart as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Being gay is personal and doesn't hurt anyone as we share it with other people who need that to be happy. That doen't take anything away from anyone who don't belong in that community. Religion does hurt, creates wars and hate and discriminates people's rights.
I don't agree with gay marriage for religious reasons, but because we should all have the same rights regardless of our gender, race, economical situation, religous beliefs and morals or sexual orientation, etc.
Our modern society and goverrnment is still based a bit on religious values but we're slowly getting out of that "dark" era that's been very "strictly religious" and "religiously strict" in the past decades and few centuries. We're slowly detaching from it and going BACK to normal. Life was good before religion came and we focused on it too much after its creation. Obviously this is not working and many people are wise enough to see that now. But many are still "brainwashed" too.
When you fit in all these standards you think it's the only way to be because you don't see that there are other possibilities since they're not part of you. But wanting everyone to be like you just because we have decided as a society that it was the "ideal" is a very self-centered thing. But who is society for real? It is each and every one of us individually. There aren't two people who are the same but we're all equal in our diversity and rights no matter how we try to standardize our society as if it was one unique entity. That way, we're only creating an unreal concept that hurts and discriminates many. We are hurting ourselves, each individual with such a society.
And when it comes to raising a child, there are a lot of bad heterosexual parents and disfunctionnal families and gay parents can be good too. Parental skills have nothing to do with sexual orientation as long as they can provide the child with affection and protection, and everything else they need.