NOM (National Organization for Marriage) DOESN'T Speak For Me!
I come from a small town, where the idea of Homosexual is still condemnable as the idea of being Black. Every day, I'd hear banter, degradation, and cruelty towards the very few open homosexuals and bisexuals in our community, and I would be to the point of tears almost every day I went home, feeling helpless in my lack of power over the situation. As an adult, I listen to this banter, and find, that my hometown, is just one of many, one of hundreds of towns in America that condemn and hate based on who a person loves. What is the most striking to me is, our Unalienable Rights: Life, Liberty, The Pursuit of Happiness. Yet homosexuals everywhere are having their lives ruined (and for may taken away out of desperation to escape the harassment), their Liberty denied, and aren't even permitted to pursue happiness. This goes far beyond a Civil Rights movement, because in past Civil Rights Movements, those fighting, weren't even considered CITIZENS of our country. These people being condemned, they are citizens, and they are seeing first hand how free the Land of the Free is.
I as a citizen, am appalled, horrified, sad, and at times speechless at the hate that our country is so explicitly showing. As a person, I claim neither "striaght" or "Gay", "Bisexual" or "Transgender." As a person, I believe in love, I believe that love and the attraction that comes with love will dictate who I am with, be that a man or a woman. And so when I watch, listen, hear, the idea of love being so savagely brutalized, I am filled with immense grief. All people who think like I do, or who are Homosexual, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgendered, or Gender Queer are being denied their rights, those unalienable rights as people, as citizens of America to be free, to have happiness, to have liberty and justice.
It is despicable to me that the country is willingly weighing the value of love. An idea that is as old as mankind itself. To decide that two men or two women are not able to love each other as any heterosexual man and woman would. Its deplorable, and, there is no basis, none. We are people, all of us. Our blood is red, our hearts beat, we all cry, and feel despair, we all feel loss, we all feel sorrow, and we should all be allowed to feel happiness. To feel acceptance, to feel like we live in a country that stands for what we stand for. America is supposed to be "The Land of the Free" where citizens can love, where citizens can prosper, where citizens can bask in the revelry of what it is to be American. Yet for many of us, that is an unattainable dream, an unattainable quest, until everyone learns, that love doesn't follow all the rules, it doesn't stay within the guidelines of Man and Woman. Another man can love a man, another woman can love a woman, a man physically who is a woman can love another man or woman, or a woman physically who is a man can love another man or woman. Love should not be subjective.
As we have proven in the past, there comes a time where we have to look passed the hatred. Like we did with Black Rights and Woman Rights and Immigration Rights, now it's time to move forward with Homosexual Rights. Where Love is not amounted to a single, biased propaganda, where love is recognized for what love is. This is why NOM doesn't speak for me. NOM doesn't understand the quintessential meaning of marriage, doesn't understand what it is that is actually love. If they did, they would be NOME - National Organization for Marriage Equality.
This is a petition I wrote against NOM, and I wanted to share it all with you.
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