Wednesday, November 6, 2013
LGBT rights is a touchy subject to a lot of people because some feel uncomfortable discussing it due to their religion and some feel uncomfortable talking about it because they feel misunderstood. I do not think this is an issue that should be brushed aside because it is the next step in civil rights. Back in the 50's and 60's the African Americans attained their justice from peaceful demonstrations and now in the 2000's the LGBT community is peacefully protesting in Washington to gain their full rights as a normal citizen. With the striking down of DOMA, the LGBT crowd made significant improvements in their rights and I believe that it will only progress forward from this point. In 50 years I'm sure we will look back and won't understand how the times have changed just as we do now with black rights
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The post is agreeable and shows foresight. It is a general consensus that after a good length of time people will look back and think that LGBT rights were fundamental and will act confused at why such a measure caused such division. Indeed, the LGBT issue can be seen holistically as a recurring meme that repeats endlessly in a ludicrous circle: a new measure to equalize a group of people normally marginalized in society is brought up due to increasing general prosperity and sophistication; attention is raised, causing a reactionary counter-movement to flare up from a larger group that never engaged in significant prejudicial violence beforehand; sectarian violence ensues; after being embroidered in a tense battle, the relatively recalcitrant middle class majority adopts and adapts the measure; finally, the originally ostracized group enjoys theoretical equality. Of course, true equality, demonstrably via history and statistics, phased in rather than an instantaneous reform. However, what is most troubling is that some extremist sects survive. Examples can be pointed out even in contemporary society, like people who believe that women should be inferior in societal hierarchy to that of a man, those who believe that their color ordains a natural and immutable superiority, and those, in this case, who believe that gays and lesbians should not be allowed to assume traditionally equal marriage rights in terms of formal law. Regardless of the original issue, there exists ghastly, ever-present reminders of a bygone era and of human nature overall. Technically, society should therefore be incredibly liberal by relative standards as traditional values have a way of losing popularity. But the question that eventually arises is what stops humanity from doing so. Such a thought is sobering no matter what era one lives in and shows how humanity paradoxically moves forward and backward at the same time, a trait that calls into question the future of the world.
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