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No, You Cannot MAG
It is a new nation,
a nation that proudly proclaims:
“Yes we can.”
But what power holds “yes we can,”
when America has told many of our
brothers and sisters
“no, you cannot”?
You cannot follow your heart.
You cannot move forward.
You cannot take a hand.
You cannot break the mold.
“Marriage is a holy bond
for a man and a woman
it is not yours to taint,” they say.
Where is the future?
Relentlessly we must
keep striving for a better day.
We must stop this hatred
and bring about change in the
wake of defeat.
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i agree
i mean c'mon i understand you shouldn't have sex unless you're married...FINE
but refusing to marry them?
they're just living by Catholic rules
I don't like this idea of equality without the same rights, it makes no sense
and i'm a catholic...
right on kayla b!
yeah okay, god made Adam and Eve, but not everyone believes in God. America is a place where religion is free and so saying ""God made Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve" should not take away the rights of gay marrages. and really that statement only talks about gay guys. whout about lesbians? Are gay guys not allowed but lesbians are?
In my opinion sexual prefferance shouldn't matter. If you don't like some because they are gay, you might as well not like someone because of their skin color.
Okay, well, although I realize that ellyn-bo-bellyn-2014 is right, I won't state my agreement the same way. I believe that a man and a woman were meant to be together-- no other combinations. That's it.
But if what Jamie Rose said was correct, then I also agree with the author of this poem. America is full of hypocrosy in the way they teach. All of the "popular" beliefs trip over and contradict themselves.
God's Word is the Truth.
Also, did you know that more than 450 species of animals have shown gay behavior? Some even say that as much as 1500 species exhibit this. And do animals have a choice about their homosexuality? Are they trying to make their parents mad? I don't think so.
Now about why gays "become straight" -- they don't. I have a friend who was so ashamed of being lesbian because people were bigoted towards her that she tried to dismiss her identity and got married to a man. She fought it and fought it and fought it until the emotional strain was too much and she divorced, accepting her true self. That's what this prejudice is putting people through. It's so bad, that it makes them lie to themselves, just so people won't hate them and, quote, "believe that it is wrong."
And some people only become gay / lesbian / bisexual to show rebellion and make their parents mad. They clearly are not genetically predisposed to be that way. It is their choice.
