The legalization of gay marriage in the United States carries the same stigma as previous civil rights issues, and as such should be proposed as an issue of the utmost importance and to be given careful consideration. If our government, as it claims, is secular in nature, then it would be wrong to base the treatment of individuals outside the confines of what is naturally understood as the right of every man, woman and child to pursue a way of life that is fulfilling. Likewise, white people, black people, homosexual people, etc., must not violate the same rights as others who might describe their differences as depraved, based or dishonorable, based on a separate set of religious or cultural values. standard. If we therefore legitimately recognize gay marriage as an age-old belief of our political culture, we may begin to realize the negative effect such pompous ignorance has on a group of people based predominantly on their sexual preference. Acceptable ideologies that become laws and, or freedoms are sometimes based on a less popular opinion that gains wide visibility in an attempt to show how certain injustices affect a particular subculture. Often, such ideals have been oppressed by those who courageously uphold the American value of equality while promoting laws that undermine the inalienable rights of other human beings. It cannot be concealed that in the past the United States Government has deemed the participation of some large minority in certain common liberties to be illicit, while the favored minority profits from the freedom to practice the same activity. When hindsight becomes foresight, we can develop understanding and acceptance where we once walked with disdain, bridled by fear of the unknown. These fears in the case of gay marriage... middle of paper... a boring precept. Jesus may also have warned against the natural shortage of immorality, but did he stone the sinner or tell them that what they were doing was wrong? No, he said, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more” (Quoted in John 8:11, NKJV). Gay men with righteous motives and proven character within our afflicted society are being robbed of their equal rights and related abilities to legally marry and raise children, based on unconstitutional rules. grounds of discrimination, and it is having a devastating effect. We are openly inciting bigotry and farassic propaganda while stifling another's right to embody their own sense of self-worth. We commit ourselves to a false and dangerous claim to infallibility, designating homosexuals as less than human, standing proudly, if only for a moment, on shaky ground that we have seen crumble in our history.