IS IT --- NAY --- TO GAY

IS IT-- NAY ---TO GAY 

   Even though there are many disadvantages in being gay, there are some advantages.  One major advantage is the ability to see things differently, and to recognize that there is more than one successful lifestyle. Many straight people can only see things in a straight line with no curves or bends within their thinking process. Modern global societies prove that there is more than one approach to successful living.

   The purported statistic that 10% of the population is gay is well underestimated.  The good Lord himself might be surprised to know just how many closet queens there are in the industrial nations of the world. It is a proven fact that the gay population greatly increases in countries that do not frown upon the gay lifestyle. 

   To bring about social change has always been a slow and difficult process. Modification of social behavior does not come as a prince in shining armor or as easy as wearing the glass slipper. Gays, as well as other oppressed groups, have paid a high price in obtaining basic civil rights. For decades gays have been slandered, humiliated, beaten, and murdered for a lifestyle that some consider offensive. It is common practice to see in the news or read in the newspapers people in important positions making offensive racial and homophobic remarks.  Even today there are political and religious leaders who are publicly advocating harm to gays.

   However, times are changing and the meanings of the words “diversity” and “tolerance” are being taught in most American schools. Recent polls show that a majority of Americans are willing to accept alternative lifestyles. Common intelligence says that tolerance is a much better alterative than hate.

    If you’re gay, you’re gay, if you’re straight, you’re straight, and there’s nothing you can do about it because sexuality is determined at birth. You’re either a male or female, gay or straight, and you have no choice in the matter.  So the sensible thing to do is allow people to be themselves and live in a peaceful world.