Same Sex Marriage

I recently watched the 'Take Me to Church' music video this week and it honestly I was overcome with emotions. This song plays on the radio all the time, in fact that is actually how I found this song, however watching the music video made me sick and want to cry. The storyline of the video is about two guys in a happy relationship that abruptly gets interrupted when a gang finds out about the two and tries to kill one of them. If you haven't watched the video I'll post the link here. It ends with one of the men who was in the relationship being beat up by the other group of men.

It wasn't the guy-on-guy contact that truly disgusted me, it was the fact that the gang of other men didn't want them to be together. The happy gay couple did absolutely nothing to those other guys, and yet one of them were beat up. I know it's just a music video but I can guarantee you that things like this happen all the time in different parts of the United States, as well as in other countries but they just aren't publicized. 

Beating up someone for something they can't help but feel is wrong. The United States is known for having the opportunity to be "free" however people are still not free to love who they love unless it's opposite gender love. It may be just me, but that does not sound like freedom to me. I know a lot of gay people from working at my job and they are just like any one of my friends- funny, sarcastic, and loving. Having those people be ashamed of what they feel is wrong. They shouldn't have the need to have this stigma of being gay sitting on their shoulder. I'm all for equality between sexual orientations. I hope someday all 50 states in America will legalize same-sex marriage so we can maybe influence other countries to do the same.

There are only 33 states that have same-sex marriage law however more than half of them were just recently passed this year. To tie this into my blog, I'm proud to say that California was one of the first ten states to allow gay marriage. I am all for same-sex marriage because people can help who they like, and I believe it is morally wrong to try to have a gay person "act straight". If you try to switch the roles and have a straight person to act gay, they would most likely say that it's gross or they would plain out just ignore the suggestion. However what straight people don't understand is that it is the same concept to them.