Persuasive Essay On Gay Rights

In the last century we have made great progress in human rights, women?s rights and African American rights. In the past 30 years the LGBT community has blossomed. The task of ?coming out? is most difficult for some. There are the tenacious, who can stand up for their rights, and there are the fearful, who have been ostracized and deemed unworthy for who they are. What is love? Can we see it, or can we physically feel it? These questions go unanswered when it comes to the subject of two people. If these two people are of the same sex, they should have no boundaries on gender. If a man and another man are in love, why shouldn?t they have the right to marry? Their rights as humans should be equal as to any other human on earth.

Fifty years ago African Americans were segregated, denied their rights and treated unjustly. It took an honorable man, Martin Luther King Jr., riots, marches and sufferable acts to challenge the people of the world that they had just the same rights as the white man. Being gay is no different. The mere question that a person of a non-conventional sexual orientation as heterosexual, should never be a question. A human born in this world should have their rights as everyone else. Going back to the 1970?s gay right activists were just beginning to protest their stance on their liberation. At this time one of the first gay rights movement had taken place in New York from backlash of a rain on a gay bar. Later on in 1979 was the first National March on Washington for gay and lesbian rights. This movement was prompted by the assassination of our first openly gay politician in California, Harvey Milk.[footnoteRef:1] Milk was shot several times by Dan White, who was troubled by the realization that there was a gay official among him and in the community. [1:

Gay marriage is legal in all fifty states. Supreme Court Justice, Anthony M. Kennedy is one of the advocating judges that supported same sex marriage.[footnoteRef:4] The ruling came down to the 5 to 4 vote from the Supreme Court. Through all the picketing, rallies and marches they won victoriously. They are now able to marry one another, to take sacred vows and pronounce their love. The ruling as anticipated has brought many opposing views and beliefs, especially among the conservatives and the Christian communities. They are entitled to their beliefs, the LGBT communities aren?t asking for their consent or for their service of marrying. For many who have been brought up in a religious home, with belief that marriage is between a man and a woman is their opinion. We can all coincide together and put our lifestyles aside to coexist in our world. Pope Francis has been one of the first Pope?s in history to not completely condemn same sex marriage, although he doesn?t give his full approbation either.[footnoteRef:5] He does respond with, we must consider the person, even if we can?t conceive of their actions. [4: Adam Liptak, ?Supreme Court Ruling Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide?, The New York Times, last modified September 28, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com] [5: ?Same-Sex Marriage debate?, The Irish Catholic, accessed April, 14, 2016,