Chapter Two- Rights.

          So my cousin is a teacher at a Catholic School. She is young, and she is finding herself more and more every day. She’s my closest family member. She contacted me today, news circulating through text on my cell phone. She got me thinking…we started texting about going to see the Broadway musical Rent in the next upcoming months and I immediately agreed if I could come up with the money. Currently she is texting me while she works in parent teacher conferences. So in her complete and utter boredom, she asks me to go to pridefest. My reply: Omg!! Yes please!!  This is a gay fair and to show support for the gay community. I can’t wait. The people who attend can buy t-shirts and things. Anyway, she did not know the days this festivity occurs. Her response: I’d look it up on the computer but the school is blocking the site due to “gay and lesbian issues” on the Catholic school web blocker. That is utterly pathetic. Why is it so wrong to be gay or support gay issues? Or even look at “gay pride” sites? I respect the Catholic religion and all that, but it can be quite irritating sometimes. Gay movements are rising and on the verge of breaking through. The military has cracked under pressure (don’t ask, don’t tell) and the movement slowly progresses. I mean, can anyone seriously ban being gay? In the military troops fight, live and die by their comrades. Wouldn’t the squad want to know their comrade for who they really are inside instead of dying and living a forceful lie among good men and women? That is a disgrace and disrespectful to the men and women in the unit as well as to that individual that they cannot come outright and say who they are and what they stand for. Yet those individuals defend this country every day. And what about equality? If the inferior is not that of race, such as the time during the Holocaust when Japanese Americans were inferior and taken into internment camps or the times of African American struggles to gain their rights and their freedoms? It is the same concept except now it is that of the homosexual when we, too, are a people. Is it not equality when we are discriminated against? After all, this is America. So I ask where is the equality? We are human beings except this time the issue goes deeper than skin color, for being gay can be of any color, religion, or being, and is not a disease or curse but a different way of living in the same world. We love like heteros love; it’s just the same gender. We, as a human race, should be able to love anybody and be able to have a loving relationship. Love has no boundaries and no limits. Love is endless and eternal. Love doesn’t discriminate against genders. Love is universal. Is that so hard to accept? Should we not be allowed to love and be happy? I believe the American declaration of freedom describes life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and I, for one, would passionately love to follow my pursuit of happiness.  I am a human being and this is my pursuit of happiness.

          Signed,

                   Yours truly.