What is Human Rights? According to Merriam Webster, “human rights regarded as belonging fundamentally to all persons.” Can one tell individuals of the same sex they cannot be together? Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgenders (LGBT) are normal just like us. Heterosexuals are not entitled to judge them. Everybody wants to be loved by someone and love someone. Personally, I do support gay marriages, not just because I live this life but it is something I am happy with and because it’s a human right.
Of course some people may not agree with this or support it, but everyone has the right to be happy and everyone has their own opinion. Gay people fall in love just like heterosexuals couples do. They are humans and have feelings also. The existing hatred toward homosexuals is outrageous.
This hatred has caused some LGBT to feel like they have to hide who they really are. This should not be the case. Because they are LGBT should their human rights be taken away from them? Aren’t LGBT included in all persons? Of course, it should not but you will see in a small sense some of their human rights have been taken away from them.
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Some say LGBT rights are not considered human rights. People, regardless of their sexual preferences or sexual identity, should be able to enjoy their human rights like any other American citizen. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights does not flat out mention sexual gender or sexual identity, but it does include broad range of interpretation to include the rights and protection of LGBT around the nation.
Whether a human is heterosexual, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or even a transgender, they are still a human. In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 2 it states; “Everyone is entitled to all rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration, without distinction of any kind.”
Not only do LGBT deserve their human rights just like everyone else, they deserve to be treated fairly. There have been various violent acts against LGBT due to their gender identity or gender preferences. We must understand we are moving into a new generation, and we cannot treat people different because they choose to express themselves in a way that we find different or we disagree with.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- Moon says it best, “Some say sexual orientation and gender identity are sensitive issues. I understand. Like many of my generation, I did not grow up talking about these issues. But I learned to speak out because lives are at stake, and because it is our duty under the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to protect the rights of everyone, everywhere.”
Many people have homophobic and transphobic attitudes that have probably been passed down from their parents, and they treat LGBT accordingly. As Mr. Ban Ki-Moon said many lives are at stake. Our world is continuously changing and with the world changing, our people are too. LGBT are being discriminated in the job market, schools, and hospitals even sometimes by their own families. When discriminating against anybody, you are taking away their human rights which they were born with.
At Southwest High School where 900 plus students walk down the crowded halls everyday couples hold hands whether it is a guy and a girl or just two girls. When I see a heterosexual couple holding hands it is nothing new to me. Just as seeing two people of the same gender holding hands is nothing new to me. In high school we are restricted to show public display of affection or PDA, which is understandable in high school.
The question is why some LGBT feel like the world is like high school and they are trapped and they cannot display their affections in public. We deserve to be treated better because we all have the right to equality to heterosexuals. I may cannot change the whole world but I can change the world one person at a time. I can make a difference in someone’s life by treating everyone how I would like to be treated.
There have been violent acts of hate toward lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders. These hate crimes have gotten out of hand. Violence will not solve problems, instead it create more. Romney says, “The National coalition of Anti-Violence program report says violence crimes against people in the LGBT community rose 13% in 2010. Minorities and transgendered women were more likely to be targeted.”
At the University of Wyoming in 1988, a guy was beaten and pistol whipped to death because he was gay. Criminals did not solve anything by killing this innocent guy. In the Los Angeles Times, there was a couple of hate crimes that stood out to me they are was followed: an 18 year old gay man from Texas was slain by a classmate who feared a sexual advance. Also, a 31 year old woman from Pennsylvania was found dead with pillowcase around her head.
As you see predators don’t target a certain type. It varies from male to female and also from teenagers to young adults. Another instance, a guy named Brian was riding the bus here he was jumped because they assumed he was a gay male. He ended up in the hospital not knowing if he would walk again. Another guy by the name of Mickey was brutally attacked. Mickey was dancing on the floor with his girlfriend when he was hit in the back on the neck by a pick. Once again they assumed he was gay because he was a good dancer and he wore dangling earrings. Even after 36 stitches that it took to close the wound it was still a blessing that the blow did not damage his spinal cord. The pick used to hit him in the neck was millimeters from his spinal cord.
Can we honestly say we know why homosexuals choose his lifestyle? Nobody wants to get looked at different or talked about nor judged. Not all homosexuals wake up one day and said I think I want to be gay. Some people have had hard times in their life and thought the best solution to their problem is to be with the same gender. For instance, a girl in my church was homosexual. She was pretty, nice, and all the guys wanted to talk to her. One day when we had a youth bonding together, we all told each other one thing that bother us. When it came to her she said she felt uncomfortable around guys and did not trust them. She never told us why but later on that evening she called to talk to me. She had been raped by her older cousin. She did not want to like girls, but she only felt comfortable around girls and she knew they could never hurt her in the way she had already been hurt.
The bible basically says a man is meant to be with woman and a woman is meant to be with a man. The bible did not straight out say a man is meant to be a man but it referred to homosexual acts in the book of Deuteronomy, 1 Kings and 2 Kings. God gives the verdicts that matters. Our judgment is irrelevant. Everybody has sinned and came short of his glory. We sin daily. No sin is greater than the other. Heterosexuals, homosexuals, Christians, Non- Christians all sin. There is no way we can sit here and point fingers at each other. No one is better than the other. We are all equal. We are all God’s children.
My whole childhood I was always taught to tell how I feel and I knew at the end of the day my mama would love me no matter what. She would love me whether I chose to be with a girl, made a bad decision, or go down the wrong path. I feel people in this world should love like a mother. Love them unconditional. Love the in the midst of their flaws.
Most importantly know that every person is not the same. We come in different shapes and forms. At the end of the day, everybody is their own person and we just have to take the person as they are.
In conclusion, human rights are rights regarded as belonging fundamentally to all persons. The question is why LGBT are being treated so different when they are entitled to their human rights. They are all persons. They have been discriminated against and also tortured mentally and physically. As a whole, we must remember America is forever changing. We are the land of the freedom, and with freedom comes a new perspective on how we look at things.
