With a reputation of “the land of the free,” you would think that America would be the last nation to disapprove and prohibit gay marriage. Well unfortunately, this is far from reality and the truth is we’re probably the first to act so strongly against it. Up to this day, nearly sixty percent of the states in America have banned gay marriage. These twenty-nine out of fifty states range from coast to coast with a few gaps in between. The more I think about it, the more I get confused with they way our political system has evolved.
We might have won many wars overseas and at our borders, but within the thick walls of our nation, we are losing the most crucial one of all, prejudice. It seems like no matter how hard we fight and run, prejudice is always just around the corner. People are always judging, and others are always listening. With a just a pinch of ignorance and an extra teaspoon of gullible adolescent minds, the perfect recipe for prejudice is instilled back into history. I guess most politicians and half of the residing citizens can’t make the connection with the similar incidences in our recent past. It took many mistakes for us to finally realize that discrimination against African-Americans was unjust and simply immoral. Now, we are falling back to old habits, and discriminating against another group, homosexuals. Although they might not be a race of their own, they are a group of people, with hearts, families, and lives just like the rest of us. They are born no different than any other human being on this earth and deserve the right to happiness, freedom, and even struggle by their own will, not by ours. It makes no sense to create these barriers on gay marriage, when yet other states and even other parts of the world tolerate it. By passing these ludicrous laws, we are only diminishing the true meaning of what this country was initially founded on, freedom and peace.
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