In his infamous Letter from the Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. brings to light the fact that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. He blatantly states that inequality towards minorities prevents the equality of everyone. Yet in this modern day and age, so many people still cannot bring it to themselves to just accept diversity. In fact, many promote and commit violence towards minorities. In particular, the LGBTQ community. This is not acceptable. Any and all forms of discrimination need to be stopped now. No one deserves to be hated because of who they love. Basic human rights are being denied because of people’s sexual orientations and this should not have been happening in the first place, let alone now. To give a specific instance, a man living in Georgia was fired from his job mere days after coming out as gay to his coworkers. Not only this, but while he …show more content…
They claim that their religion does not condone homosexuality in any form. Many religions do not approve of this community, as it has been called “a detestable sin” according to Leviticus 18:22 in the Roman Catholic Bible. It even goes as far as to say that those who commit acts of homosexuality are “guilty of a capital offense” and must be “put to death” in Leviticus 20:13. Yet even with these reasons, they are explanations, not excuses. It could be easily proven that religions never accept the use of violence as a solution. They actually resent it. In Psalm 11 and Proverbs 3 and 10, the Bible claims violence and abuse to be “detestable to the Lord”. In Ecclesiastes 3:17, the Bible states that “God will bring into judgment the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed”, meaning that it is nowhere in our rights to decide the fate of other people. Whether they are decided to be detestable or praiseable is up to God, not us