I have always found the LGBT marriage debate to be quite baffling. Why is somebody in a different area of the country getting married having an affect on you? Why would you try to tell someone that they are not deserving of showing love through the ultimate commitment of marriage. With the divorce rate hovering around fifty percent, it is clear that not all individuals that get married are right for it. Yet we allow any type of consensual heterosexual marriage, assuming each person is of a certain age.

People then say, well why can you not marry your dog or cat, a spoon, or even a baby? That is because none of these three had the ability to consent to a relationship, let alone a marriage. People will always do their best to reach the ultimate goal of a happy life. When we take a potentially beautiful love and take away all hope of manifesting that love in marriage, we are preventing the parties involved from achieving their ultimate goal of happiness.

The last thing I want is for people to intrude on my ability to make what I want for my life. I always go back to my golden rule: Do whatever you like as long as it does not a) hurt someone and b) prevent others from doing what they like to do. Therefore, if you want are trying to create a world where the option for gay marriage is absent, you are taking away somebody else’s (LGBT people) ability to do what they would like to do (get married).

I am glad to see, however, that ground is being made in various areas of the country. Even family values are beginning to change in various ways. I come from a fairly conservative family. I struggle being one of the few who likes to look at all different points of view. However, no matter when, how, or why anybody in my family would choose to come out of the closet, it has been made clear that this does not change anything when it comes to family. I like to see us moving further in this direction.

I found this to be a very interesting video, and a good idea is being promoted. The artist does very well to visualize the thoughts and theories and making it an effective teaching aid. Going into the subject matter, I don’t think it was quite all there. Maybe I’m playing devil’s advocate, after all I don’t believe any one person has a right to a satisfying life over any other person, but It seemed to be a bit too simple. The progression goes, empathy with in bloodlines, then in religion, then by national identity, so the next logical step is the entire human race, all caring for each other as if one big family. Would be nice, but a bit idealistic, I think. First, he seemed not to mention race empathy in our human history. There has been a great deal of divide amongst races around the world, especially in the United States, where racial inequality is ever-present. Hopefully in the near future, this level of progression can be eliminated, leaving racial tensions behind. Yet as result, there has been empathic races. Also, this video makes it seem as if family was obsolete once religion came along, and that religion went obsolete with the rise of nations, and that nations will be obsolete when we all care for each other. Even as most of us identify with a nation, we still protect those more carefully in our social organizations, and more so within our families. I believe that instead of this ladder image that comes to mind with this theory, I believe it is more like a snowball effect. When we solidify healthy lifestyles for our family and relatives, we can more easily influence the solutions to larger problems that exist within our social/other organizations, which can then go on to influence more and more people on larger levels, so that hopefully, someday, we can fix the poverty problems in the U.S. Then, if this ever occurs, we as a country along with other well off countries who may possibly fix their internal problems, can all work together to a common, peaceful end.