Same-Sex Marriage: How Can Love Be Wrong?

It isn't easy to be gay in America. In truth, it isn't easy to be gay in any country. If you are gay, in any country, than you are definitely in the minority. I should know this because I have just come to terms with my own homosexuality. It is not a conscience decision to be gay and that should be more than obvious since the one who always turns out gay always has to wrestle with it.

As stated, if you are gay you are in the minority. Love isn't waiting just around the corner for you. You can't sneak a peak at someone good looking because the reprisal if caught could be far worse than just a blow off. Most of your friends will turn their back on you initially and then when they think about what you are more deeply they may never contact you again. It just isn't easy being gay in this world.

You can spend a long time finding someone that you love. I'm not talking about someone to have sex with, but somebody to actually love. The straight community just assumes that homosexuality is all about sex and pleasure and ignores the fact that gay people are people who want to love and be loved. There are those small numbers who care only about pleasure, but if you ask the majority of gay people, you will find that they are put off by those kinds of actions as well. Yet, love will finally come and because it is so elusive to begin with, the love is deep.

You court this person as two straight people would court. You share your life stories, you laugh, and you smile. You have petty arguments and you have bad arguments. The point is you begin to share your life with this person and the thought of them not being part of your life is unbearable. You decide that you're so in love that you want to marry this person.

Unfortunately, in the United States of America, you cannot marry this person; a civil union still isn't possible in some states in the union. When you ask why you can't marry the person you love you are told it is a sin to love the person. A sin? We have kids killing each other on the school grounds all the time these days, but its loving someone of the same sex that is the true sin.

How can love be morally wrong? I understand when people talk about fear of divorce rates rising because gay couples find it hard to live with each other long, but it seems neither can straight people since divorce rates are already reaching peak levels. Love is love whether it is between a man and a woman, a man and a man or a woman and a woman. It's love and it won't lead to bestiality as (the rightfully voted out of office) Senator Rick Santorum put it. I ask that in the United States, a country that prides itself on its moral superiority to others in the world, stop morally objecting to true love.