Burning Rainbow Flags

Topic: Human Rights v. Majority Rule

Is homosexuality or heterosexuality wrong? I question that has been asked for many years. I have no problem with it, but many Americans see homosexuality and heterosexuality as the skid mark on the underpants of society. Because of that reason, America has, for several years now, attempted to “legally abolish in public employment discrimination based on sexual preference”. Not only do I find this decision to be wrong, I find this kind of ridiculous and ignorant on all surfaces of the issue.

An individual’s sexual preference should not effect their employment for many reasons. It shouldn’t matter what they do behind closed doors anyways. What they do or who they do isn’t anyone’s business. That factor does not affect someone’s performance in the workplace nor should it make them look different in the workplace. Like the example used in the prompt—an elementary school teacher. I young child sees a teacher as a mentor, an educator who is the key to their success in life; young children don’t see a homosexual or heterosexual. At the end of the day, a teacher is a teacher as long as you do the job to the best of your ability, there is no gay or straight.

Homosexuals and heterosexuals are no different from straight individuals. Most Americans think of gays as aliens or forbidden territory when in all actuality they just like everyone else except for their sexual preference. For example, most men think that other gay men will hit on them or, in other words, try to get in someone’s pants. I have a friend who is gay and he is the most interesting individual I have ever met. I think most Americans should get over the fact that homosexuals and heterosexuals are abnormal sex machines.

This issue, in my eyes, is all based on one problem that most Americans have—closed mindedness. People need to open their eyes and understand the other side of the issue; put the other persons shoe on your foot. Everyone should just have a personal conversation with a homosexual or heterosexual. Ask them about their ideas, beliefs, how they see the world as a whole today. Only then will most individuals understand that they are just like everyone else.