Dear Editor
I’m writing this to you today because I have been witnessing a lot of homophobic comments and discrimination in this town as well as in this school and even in my own household. I myself am a firm believer in same sex marriage, but I do not focus on gay marriage itself but more the idea that everyone should have the right to marry who they choose, no matter what genitalia they have.
Just imagine that one day you found someone you were attracted to, you spend quite a bit of time with them and you realise that you begin to like them in a way that so many members of your family and society as a whole frown upon. After telling a few close friends and even a few of your family members, youre ready to take this friendship to the next level, you ask the person you like out, they say yes. As your relationship advances you take it to a higher level and propose to your partner, they yet again accept, that night is one of the happiest, most joyful experiences in your existence. You and your partner set off planning the rest of your lives together, the dresses or the suits youre going to wear, flowers or no flowers, the guests and the seating plan, to realise that you can’t, by law, marry the one you are so deeply in love with. How wrong is that, that there is a simple piece of discriminating paper that stops YOU being able to lawfully start the rest of your lives together, a piece of paper that slaps YOU in the face and says in one way or another that YOU as a person, as a human being, do not have the other rights as someone who loves a straight person.
Just to sum it all up, what is the point of a law preventing same sex marriage; we are all human beings, if straight people can marry why is it so wrong to think that the same right belongs to homosexual people too. Homophobia as a whole needs to be eradicated, it is nothing but a futile attempt to hurt others that do not comply with “gods view” on how this world should live.
- Grace King of Darwin, NT, Australia
