Why Gay Rights Matter
For most of my life, I saw homosexuals as 'deviant' from the norm, but I never honestly considered that they were somehow sub-human because of this. I would hear stories about Gay Rights activists not always being gay, and I accepted this reality - I didn't fully understand what it meant, however. What it means to me is this: It is completely acceptable to advocate equality for a cause, even when it has absolutely no direct impact on you personally. Something is either justifiable or it is not. There is absolutely no justification for treating individuals who have a different sexual orientation as 'inferior' and thus less deserving of basic human rights. It doesn't help, of course, that so many people and organizations over the years have flat-out lied to the public about homosexuality. Statistics have been skewed and tortured to support ridiculous conclusions, though these tactics seem to have failed so utterly that they are few and far between in this...