open. They can accept their brothers and sisters and everything in between, and have the potential to be more compassionate than those not included. All the same, small groups around the country feel that approving more gay rights will have the opposite effect of kindness and peace.
Many people who stand opposed to the gay rights are afraid that the LGBT+ community’s flamboyance, size, and popularity may transform the people around them should they be given the chance. They may do something such as force their sexuality on other people, or subject them to various activities they may not be comfortable with. Not only that but they fear they could be made uncomfortable by their activities or public displays if any at all. At the same time, many people can be disturbed by anything in public, but that is why there is the difference between the public and private life, and what makes someone uncomfortable or not should not really come to terms if people obtain their rights or not. Besides being more lively in spaces, when other groups obtained more rights they did not flaunt it. The fear however is still reasonable and understandable, especially coming to play of religious
beliefs. With religious beliefs comes the idea of emotion dictating the actions of what people do. Emotions do not define a person down to a ‘T’, and they certainly should not be used as an effective way to dismiss someone from being equal to another, not in circumstances of who you love. A girl who loves american culture does not have any more rights then a girl who loves foreign culture, or someone who loves a millionaire does not have any more rights than someone who loves a person in poverty and debt. Emotion does not determine what makes us citizens but rather our economical and living status. LGBT+ people cannot be denied rights purely because they love someone of their same gender. Beyond that, many argue to marry the same religion or the same age, same nationality and even more similar things, yet two people of the same gender cannot love each other and if they do they should not be treated the same? In some cultures however, as mentioned earlier, there are religious reasons as to why some people either do not want equal rights or cannot partake in these equal rights, is something else entirely. In some religious cultures there are laws against homosexual romance and those who are infatuated with the same gender will not be allowed to the next positive stage of life. Some religions will even punish whomever seems to be LGBT+ for breaking the laws set by the equivalent to the commandments or the bible for that religion. Many countries tend to link religion with citizenship, especially places like the middle east or even the United States, it can play a rather large role and even stereotypes. Because of this importance to religion, LGBT+ can be out of the question for an abundance of people. Regardless, there is a reason government and religion should stay separated, as when the prospect of God or various deities can intervene, it becomes unbalanced and unjust just like in the case of rights of all people, especially now LGBT+ people.