Why I support LGBT equality and marriage:

This is becoming a hot topic currently on social media. With rainbow pictures coming out left, right, and center. 

Firstly, I would like to address the articles stating that this is a media distraction; isn't it all? Aren't we always masking what is happening around us? Yes there are many issues we need to address. 

We as the future generations are solely responsible for it. If we pretend that tha inequality faced by the LGBT community is not a real one, we are basically returning to our sad stone ages. I assume I do not have to remind everyone that this community consists of folks of all ethnicities. We can't pretend that we know that everyone deserves the right to a free life. If we didn't crave freedom as human beings, the whole world would be similar to North Korea. 

Unfortunately, this debate comes up time and time again, with the same old stale argument on the opposing side; "oh can someone please think about the children" (cue in Maude Flanders voice). There's going to be a drop in births? Wait, we didn't think about this when women got the right to an education in most developed nations and were having less children? Has this even put a tiny dent in the over population problem? How about we focus less on who the parents are of a child and focus more on the upbringing a child receives? How can we have a heterosexual parent duo with issues all the way to the moon and around the sun twice, but argue that a same sex couple with less issues are worse parents? Your sexual orientation doesn't make you a bad parent. You are a bad parent if you're already deciding you are a homophobe. We do not know who our children are going to be. Another stale argument I've heard over the past few day: "we are letting our children think it's okay to 'be gay'". Of course it's okay to be gay. Who are you to decide who someone else is? Did someone tell you who you are? 

Homosexuality has been around for as long as the world has been around. There is homosexuality & asexuality in nature with animals and other living things. We have to understand that if there is a God who created Adam and Eve, he also created Steve, Anne, and the rest of the world. (If you so choose to believe in Abrahamic religions). 

Let's choose to be fair and equal. We all deserve the right to a happy and free life. Who the hell are you to decide what that is for someone else? Who are you to judge? Remember, when you point a finger at someone, you point the rest towards yourself. Be fair to others and be kind. You are not a god, you are no one to decide. Live and fucking let live.