Gay Nation Armentor

For a country that claims to be the shining light of civil rights, The United States has had, and still harbors a dubious record of evaluating humanity on an unequal scale. From our long struggle with slavery, to making restrictive laws on Asians, horrible treatment of Native Americans, and women's and black rights only becoming tangible in the 20th century, one wonders where's the basis behind this American moral exceptionalism. I have heard prideful Americans argue that these injustices are a thing of the past, that in 2010, the United States government envokes the strongest sense of civil liberties for all its denizens. I am here to say that this is far from reality; that still, in this day and age, the United States still isolates some of its population.

I'm talking about gay people. While advancing generations of Americans have no doubt developed an unprecedented acceptance of gay culture, the United States government is still far off the mark on where it should be on gay rights. For example, if me, a male, was madly in love with someone who just so happens to be named Larry, 98% of the states in this country won't allow me to share my love with him, just because we're a gay couple. You will see gay couples not getting appropriate health benefeits. Of the highest atrocities that the gay community has to deal with (this one thankfully isnt federally supported) is the aggressiveness of certain hate groups. I can't imagine what it must feel like to be a gay couple hassled by some ignorant bafoons from the Westboro Baptist church; blind hatred based purely on someone's life descision.

So my Jeremiad is a call to arms. A supporting arm in the fight to grant our gay brothers and sisters the social liberties that everyone is supposed to have in our nation. If we ebb any further into the future with this social burden still on our shoulders, Americans can forget about any notion of liberty and justice for all.