They are considered evil, morally wrong, are stripped of rights, and have been historically some of our most radical brightest thinkers. So why are they evil, morally wrong and stripped of their rights because they do not fit the ideals of our society. Many times in our world's past we criticize and haze our most innovative minds because we did not like what we where hearing. Think of Michelangelo, Socrates, Jane Addams, and Joan of Arc. What else did these people have in common other than their radical thinking, they where all homosexuals.
This issue today is everywhere, and I keep think back to the current upcoming elections. Proposition 8 concerns marriage and who is allowed to or not. Voting yes on prop 8 would take away the rights of gay , lesbian, and transgendered people to marry. Something that for decades we have been so close minded about for the past centuries. This prop is relevant to the film because one of the main concerns raised in both the film and today is the "spreading" of gay and lesbianism. In the film it quotes a psychiatrist claiming that prolonged exposure to gays and lesbians will "pervert" the youth. And in one of the campaign commercials for prop 8, it has a child which has been "perverted" who says to her mother that she had been taught in school that she can marry a girl. How outrageous to think that being gay can be caught like the a sickness, or the flu.
How long will it be before this country realizes that we cannot be so bias. We live in a country where we should have equal rights and freedom but this is yet to be completely true, the freedom of thought, freedom of action and freedom from false persecution is not enjoyed by everyone because we have yet to let them.
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