The LGBT community in America seems to officially be on its way to becoming recognized as a minority group. In California a new bill (SB 48) is being introduced to correct what is seen as an over sight in the education system. SB 48 is aimed at including the role and contributions of the LGBT community to American history in the text books. Move over Black History month here comes Gay history month. As if our parades where you see one of everything wasn’t enough.
The Los Angeles Times records Sen. Leno as saying: “In light of the ongoing and ever-threatening phenomenon of bullying and the tragic result of suicides,’ ‘it seems to me that better informed students might be more welcoming in their approach to differences among their classmates. Students would better understand that we are talking about a civil rights movement.’” Opponents of the bill say it is legislating morality Craig DeLuz, a parent, says: “It is requiring taxpayers to foot the bill to promote a lifestyle to which they may or may not be morally opposed.”
I personally believe the truth, as always, is somewhere in the middle. Preventing bullying and teen suicide is everyone’s concern whether they are gay or straight. Labeling it as a civil rights issue is not accurate because kids unfortunately are always going to be teased and tormented because they are different. That is why campaigns like It Gets Better exist. Also, schools should be more concerned with teaching coping techniques not teaching which gay person did this or that. As far as legislating morality that never works. Theocracies put so many limitations on people that citizens are going to naturally want to go after what they can’t have or they going to be so repressed that they will revolt. Iraq and Iran are classic examples of that. Besides saying government is making some one support gay people is over kill.
I do support gay people being treated equally and not being attacked because they are gay. However, I do not see the need to start making ourselves a specific people group. We exist in every nationality in existence. Dividing the human race even further does not make sense to me. I would rather be judged by the content of my character just like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said than on who I like to have sex with, which is my private business and no one else’s. Also, there is more to me than my sexuality. What needs to be remembered is we are all human and people’s monumental contributions to history should be remember for the contribution itself not because the person was gay.
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