Gay Marriage

First of all, I'm straight (just to clear the air). I don't understand why people get some up-in-arms about gay marriage, and I never will.

My biggest question I ask people who are so against it is, "What negative impact does it have on you exactly?" Normally, I get responses such as the person just being irritated by the sight of affection between homosexuals. The thing that I can never get through my how this irritates people if they're comfortable with their own sexuality. It simply does not bother me to see two gay people holding hands, because I know what I like and I understand what other people like. At the end of the day, I go home with my own sexual orientation and they go home with theirs.

The major contribution to the anti-gay movie is undoubtably Christianity (along with a few other religions), and I hate to say it, but that will probably never change and end up being the biggest obstacle homosexuals need to overcome. I'm a Christian, and I have no problem with it. I've been in numerous situations where a straight person has told a gay person they are going to hell. In my opinion, under no circumstance should anyone ever be told this. If people are so concerned with the literal translation of the Bible, then they might as well go stone their wives if they commit adultery and tell children they are going to hell for being molested because those are also translations in the Bible. It is a sin just like any other, and I just loathe how many modern Christians love to point the finger at anyone else but themselves.

While I can understand the concept of anti-gay protestors to want to protect the sanctity of marriage, as marriage is a religious ritual rather than being solely a symbol of two human beings loving one another, I frankly just don't care enough whether two homosexuals are married or not. I'm old fashioned in the sense that I believe everyone is on my good side unless proven otherwise, and I have never meet a homosexual that hasn't been nice to me. Nor has any homosexual group ever inflicted upon my rights.

It also comes down to the fact that this is America. It was founded on the principles of freedom to practice whatever lifestyle an individual chooses. How can anyone argue that? And who has the right to tell someone else how to live their life? For anyone to declare a specific sexual orientation unnatural is just plain wrong.

Don't misunderstand me, I believe the other side has good points. However, I refuse to participate in arguments with people who are anti-gay who's opinion has been fueled by hate rather than logic.

The hard fact is that gay marriage will inevitably be legal in the majority of the United States. Six states have already made it legal: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire. Iowa was a huge surprise to me, and leads me to believe that Missouri will someday be in the mix. Whether people agree with it or not, homosexuals will soon have the rights I feel they deserve.