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Voting on people’s rights just ain’t right. You would think that America learned it’s lesson on picking an choosing who had what rights. However, that does not seem to be the case today as homosexual men and women fight for the “right” to get married. Personally, I do not need a piece of paper to tell me or anyone around me that I love the one I am with. I do not need to wear a ring to signify my endless love to that person either. I only need them to know that I am there. With that said, many people do not feel that way so they want to be able to “legally” wear that ring or to be able to hang that certificate on the wall in a great frame.

For many years, Americans thought that a woman’s place was six steps behind her husband and she never was to voice her opinion. Personally, I know some men that needed to have the same thing done to them. Since that time, we have had many great women grace us. I just wonder what we missed in the past. It just goes to show you the ignorance of some men. With this being the case for all the women, it appalls me that some women thought that it was right to ban “gay marriage”. You should be appalled as you know what your gender had to endure over the years. If you don’t then maybe you need to sit down and talk to your mother, grandmother, or even great grandmother and hear what your gender had to overcome.

Between the years of 1955 and 1968, the African-American Civil Rights movement transpired. If it were not for people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., we would not have the opportunity to witness a great man like Barack Obama sitting in the White House today. Rosa refused to be ushered to the back of the bus, Martin had a dream, and Barack finally got to realize his dream. Not only is he riding in the front of the bus, he is driving it. The “BUS” is our country for you who cannot figure that out. Once again, the white man thought that he was the only one that mattered and others were not meant to be seen or heard. With that said, I am once again appalled at a race that knows what it is like to be persecuted and treated unfairly; a race that had no rights when they really should have had every right. Your race should be able to recognize a similar struggle for equality and essentially get it.

Now, today we stand here once again; a country divided over equality. Come to America, the land of the free, the home of the Brave, where straight men and women have the right to marry and divorce at the drop of a hat, but homosexual men and women have to just live together because we are “playa haters”. This my friends should be the new slogan for American.

I leave you with this thought. What will you do when the day comes that something you want so bad is put to a vote and is not allowed because of your sexuality, race, or religion? HMMMM, sounds like discrimination to me.