A Country Divided Will Fall

Now a days it seems that America is no longer United. It seems that instead we're more concerned with a War on Terror and using up limited fuel sources than surviving as humans. Forget about your bank account, clothes, and social status and look in the mirror. Will you see a person? What if you look at someone on the bus, or in the city, or even next door? Will you still see a person? Or will you see an "Iraqi" or a "Mexican" or even a "Gay"? Will you see a label instead of the person that you ignore? Maybe you wont, but the sad fact is that most people do. These people include our representatives in the political field.

As a 20 year old gay man from a small town in Maryland, I know how hard it is to be different in a town where difference is frowned upon. In my high school, we had very little diversity in either ethnic backgrounds or sexual orientation. Everyone was straight and white, save maybe 10 of us. Our school wouldn't even condone us having a GSA for the few that were brave enough to be out and proud. But despite this, I found comfort in thinking that it was just my town, and the world was a better place. Several years after graduating from high school, I realize that the same narrow minded ideas carried out in small towns, are being conveyed in the battlegrounds of politics. Right wing conservatives blast homosexuals for being against God, and living a life style in which their book doesn't condone. But no one bothers to ask why God just doesn't love everyone? Since when did God become so discriminating that he would make people in order to not love them. And as for those who venomously quote the bible, why do you stop reading? The bible passages also say not to mix fibers, and eat meat on certain days. I guess its easy to live your life if you only use the bible for your personal weapons. But another sad fact remains that we have homosexuals who are going to personality camps. They want to change who they are to be someone different and "better" in the eyes of the judgmental communities.

Recently other members of the LGBT Community have changed and "came out" of homosexuality into heterosexuality, and in turn blasted the homosexuals for being lecherous, pornographically centered, and addicted to drugs and alcohol. We're often compared to pedophiles and those with a fond affection for animals, but we're never seen as people. I can't remark for the drugs or parties that homo and heterosexuals alike go to, because thats not me. But the point here isn't to prove that I'm better or worse, bur rather that we're people. If a straight member of any community is addicted to a drug, or has sexual relations with a child, isn't it the same as if a homosexual member does? Sometimes I'm not so sure.

I guess I'm ultimately preaching the same thing that others have before me. Peace doesn't exist anymore, and we're no longer United. We are now segregated into small war-like factions. Its the lefts against the rights and we'll fight until we die to rule. Neither half wants the other to get power, and they'll destroy anyone caught in the middle with their political power. Our president commands the troops like pawns to be slaughtered, while we destroy each other. Do people exist anymore? Can I, or anyone else, be seen as just a person and not a title? I doubt it, and the sad fact is that people younger than I do have a cynical view on life. Give peace a chance or it might just the be last mistake we make.