Don't Ask, Don't Tell unfair and should be disbanded
Oppression is the word I think of when hearing the debates on gay marriage, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and any other policy that removes human rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.
Even if one disagrees with this community, they are people and deserve the rights of all human beings.
We are all created equal.
We cannot allow the will of the majority to decide on civil rights issues.
People and leaders in government have been raised with prejudices, different moral backgrounds and many different religious beliefs.
This causes the problem.
If we cannot look at each other and respect our differences, along with the understanding that it will depend on us to see past the prejudices we all have, how did America survive the past civil rights issues?
This is the greatness of America — we have these debates and the country can grow and move forward from it.
However, the time for this debate is over. The “phrase inalienable rights” inserted by Thomas Jefferson into the Declaration of Independence was not just for an effective use of language.
Taking away the rights of any human being because it does not conform to another person’s belief is wrong and oppressive.
And when this happens in America, it tears at the very fabric of the U.S. Constitution.
It was simple language used: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Why should the LGBT community be excluded?
LGBT Americans who wish to serve this country should be allowed to do so.
Why does America repay patriotism of serving in the military with the request to lie about who you are?
It is disgusting to think we ask brethren to do such a thing.
The LGBT community should be able to legally marry in America.
The argument that the sanctity of marriage will be ruined if same sex couples are allowed to marry holds no water with me.
If the sanctity of marriage is so important, then divorce would be illegal and adultery would be punishable.
It is time to end this “us against them” mentality.
When California voted to stop gay marriage, the people in that state sent a message of discrimination.
How does a majority have the right to vote on the civil rights of a minority?
Human rights are the rights a person has simply because he or she is a human being.
Human rights are inalienable — you cannot lose these rights any more than you can cease being human.
When our government is involved in this type of institutional oppression, it is placing an undue burden on a group of people who deserve equality.
It is time for the American government and the people to end the oppression of the LGBT community.
Separate but equal does not work.
It is inhuman.
