thingstoremember

likelava:

i’ll probably take this down soon, i rarely post things of this nature but i’ve been seeing a lot of talk around here on the matter. and most of what i’ve seen just makes me sort of sad. i support all forms of love, and i usually just quietly disagree with the general opinions i’ve heard on the subject. but i don’t think attacking people on any basis is legitimate, especially not something as trivial and tedious as having a belief that differs from them. i think it’s sad that we live in a world where we have to call people “homosexual” if they are attracted to the same sex - that we have to separate them into their own category. like i don’t eat or drink or sleep or love or hurt the same because i’m attracted to the opposite gender. i think it’s sad that a social argument is so often argued on a religious front (i.e. the argument that “only a male and a female can reproduce” which refers mostly to christian like religions which deem it only right to marry if the two intend to breed - but animals show homosexual behaviors and so do an array of people existing outside of religion. not to mention we don’t deny males or females the right to marry if either are infertile and therefore cannot reproduce.) there are a lot of concepts practiced today which breach this belief that only males and females should have sexual relations. i think it’s sad because the concept can never be debated correctly. to even begin to form an opinion on homosexuality it first needs to be seen for what it is - a social occurrence, not a religious problem. i think it’s sad when i see shirts like “legalize gay” because i feel like that’s the wrong fight. you’re only feeding the inequality. why not legalize love, why not legalize the freedom to be who you are without dangerous consequences and rejection from society. i think all of these things are sad, and i feel the same as most of you. i would never attack any of you because of your opposing beliefs. but where what i feel differs from what i mostly see here is that i would also never think that anyone has the right to do so just because their theory doesn’t match my own or anyone else’s. i would never call you wrong or my own right, because which of us is to say? there are so many blurred lines that the best we can do is say we feel differently - and yet that rarely occurs. and maybe that’s why we can’t legalize love. our country is a vast group of people who believe in the same ideals of freedom and individuality but only when it applies to our own perspective - otherwise, we believe we are endowed by these freedoms with the right to attack if disagreed with. and i find something exponentially even more sad in that.

(Source: ashliwood)