Sample:Accepting Homosexuality
While the western media abounds in images of same sex marriages with men or women tying the knot legally with all the paraphernalia of the normal nuptials, some lingering doubts remain. How and why did it all begin? The first response of most would be that homosexuality is against religious values which the Bible confirms too through the Sodom and Gomorrah destruction story because the men were practicing homosexuality.
At face value, homosexuals and lesbians do seem to be perverted individuals under the influence of the devil perhaps. Of course the sexual orientation of devils is hardly known but witches were supposed to consort with devils. Sex was the instrument of repression it seems like during the Salem witch-hunt.
The desire for the same sex existed eternally and figures in the animal world too. Should we officially accept that scientifically and rationally? Many countries now legally accept same sex marriages but what about the many cultures opposed to such a procedure. What about the conservative Islamic culture that would rather put the homosexuals to death or the many cultures that would be too horrified at the mere mention?
Somehow LGBTs appear quite unnatural, freaks of nature like babies born with two heads or conjoined twins. Yet they are children of god too and deserve the rights as guaranteed by the constitution and deserving of the same favors of the community. We can hardly put them as specimens in the zoo though the ...