Gay Marriage

Commentary on "Why just a man and a woman?!" by Miriam Yarber

It is very sad that here in America, here in the land of “freedom” not everyone has the same rights. Homosexual people still cannot get married in the majority of the states.
I don’t see why the government can’t grant this right to everyone, we all deserve to have the same rights, homosexual people also deserve to be happy and have a normal life.
They did not choose to have the sexual preference they have, neither heterosexual people nor bisexual people. The government should not uphold traditional values. Societies change, people change. It is not the government business to decide who gets married and who does not or what social values we should follow. We should have freedom to do whatever we want as long as we don’t hurt other people or ourselves. Marriage has to be a right for everyone. I just can’t believe that this is happening in the year 2008 in this country. I could have understood if this situation was happening 100 years ago or in other countries where people don’t even have the right to marry the person they want to marry.
But here in America? Year 2008? It is unbelievable. We all should wake up and realize how ridiculous it is that some people cannot get married and that discrimination still exists and not everybody has the same rights.
We have to understand that diversity exists, and we should tolerate each other in order to stand united as a society and to move forward.