Gay Rights.

My heart jumped this morning when I heard about the Supreme Court hearings on same-sex marriage. Of course, like I always do, I broke out the handy dandy Google and did some reading. I am beyond excited at the possibility of equal rights for everyone, but at the same time, I'm tired of these rights being debated. It should be common sense. Those who oppose same-sex marriage are stuck in the past, pulling out excuses like "Marriage is for procreation!" and "Children can't be raised properly without a woman and a man!" God, it makes me sick.

Yeah, marriage used to be for procreation, but seeing as how overpopulated planet Earth is today, it seems irresponsible to get married for the soul purpose of making more babies. There are tons and tons of poor, parent-less children in the world, wishing and hoping for someone to take care of them and love them. Why the hell do people think its a smart idea to just leave these children in orphanages and on the streets and make more instead. Why would you leave a child hungry and alone like that? I'm completely at a loss to some people's thought processes. They're too selfish to comprehend.

Another factor playing a part in the fluctuation of the purpose of marriage is women's rights. Women aren't property anymore like they used to be considered. They don't live with their parents until they're woo'd by some dude who takes her to his place so she can clean his house and have a ton of kids. Women play huge parts in the workplace, politics, you name it. Women aren't cattle, women aren't to be bought and sold, and women aren't for making children. Therefore, neither is marriage. Once men and women reached equal rights, it was all over. Marriage was no longer a business deal between a man and the girls dad, it was no longer the guy going shopping for a girl to have his kids. It became a partnership between two people made out of the love that they shared, it became a commitment to each other, it was a sign of the bond that they shared, not a contract for baby making.

And why do opposers think that a child needs a man and a woman to raise them in order for them to grow up to be a good person? Take a look at how many traditional couples fuck their kids up. They beat them, they steal their medication, they sexually, physically, and mentally abuse them, they neglect them, the list goes on and on. How can you say that a gay couple would make bad parents when you aren't even good parents yourselves. I bet they would be just as loving and caring and give just as much attention to the wants and needs of their children as a heterosexual, traditional couple would. God, society is filled to the brim with hypocrites.

Why are our eyes still closed? Why is same-sex marriage even being debated? Love is love is love is love. Let two people love each other! How does it even effect you! If you don't like it, marry someone of the opposite sex, but don't ruin someone else's happiness because it conflicts with your closed minded, hypocritical, old fashioned views. Have we forgotten the civil rights movement? Have we not learned from the past? In the words of the musician Macklemore, "No freedom till we're equal, damn right that's important." I completely support my own and everyone's right to love and marry whomever we want to. No one should be discriminated against because of who they love. No one. Mutual respect and compassion, people, lets get on it.