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Monday 5/14/2012  

Gay Marriage 
The public opinion question for the day in a small conservative town where I grew up in Nebraska is "Where do you stand on gay marriage?" As of now 49% oppose it.

 I am a straight transwoman who has the the legal right to get married to a man. Gay people have more rights than trans people but this is one right trans people have that the Gays do not. Non the less I support everyone's happiness and I support my friends and family in the gay community and have a few things I want to say.

 1) Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve, if your going to spout off the Bible take the time to read it, Adam and Eve where never married and in the book of Deuteronomy is says God only considers a marriage valid if the wife is a virgin. Well that makes me laugh because there aren't very many women that should be walking down the aisle in white, so why are we recognizing these marriages? Didn't God create everyone in his own image? Well I hate to tell you but God created Steve too. 

2) Gay marriage will destroy the sanctity of marriage! It has all ready been destroyed and it was straight people that did it with a high divorce rate and the average marriage only lasting two years. As a whole, straight people value marriage less than gay people so why do we fight them on it? Statistics go against the stereotype and gay relationships statistically last longer than straight relationships. By the way isn't divorce a sin?

 3) Straight people are making this a religious issue, well I hate to inform those who are naive but there are LGBT Churches in almost every denomination in most all of the major cities in this country. Gay people have been exchanging vows in front of God and getting married in Church's for decades now. It is just not recognized by the government so just because you try to make it illegal doesn't mean your stopping anyone from getting married in front of God. It is two separate issues, the Gays don't care about getting married in a Church because they already do. It is the over 1100 federal human rights that come along with the government recognizing their marriage that they want. The rights straight people have but take for granted because their daily lives are not effected by not having them.

 4) Don't people have better things to do than fight against other peoples happiness and love. Tell me how another persons happiness effects marriage or life negatively?
 
5)Not everyone is religious or a Christian in this country so stop taking rights away from and suppressing other cultures of people by forcing your religious rhetoric in to our countries government. The thing about human rights is that they are not suppose to be voted on, that's why we call them "rights". There are third world countries more socially evolved than the United States. Last but not least- One culture of people should not decide how another culture of people are suppose to live, because that to me in ungodly...!

All the Best

Kinley Preston


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