Homosexuality in today's society

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The change in our views of homosexuality has effected everyone. In todays society homosexuality is viewed as a sin and is thought to be wrong. Homosexuals are thought to be different. but are they really? we are all people. they are thought to have something wrong with them. do they really? how do we know what the norm is in todays society? is their a norm? who is right? who is wrong? we view these people as lessors. how do they view us? are we lessors to them or do they not worry them selfs with our sexuality? Do they care what others are? why should we worry about what other people believe is right and worry our selfs about them? its their choice to do what they want with their lives. not ours. we have no right to tell them that they cant get married. they are all people and all people have the same rights. we cant say that only some people can get married and that others cant because they don’t live the same way that you do. thats like saying that a heterosexual couple cant get married because one weighs more than the other. no one is ever going to complain that these two shouldn’t be married because of the fat that they aren’t the same as you. do they lose rights because they don’t believe what you believe? Do people who believe differently than you deserve to be punished for it. In Saudi Arabia people who are not Islamic are punished, in the US we are supposed to have freedom, but people who are not the “average” American stereotype (Christian with a tutor style house, a white picket fence, and 2.5 kids) are looked at differently. why in a country that is supposed to be filled with happy people do we prevent people from doing what would make them happy? if we feel awkward around them them, we don't have to look. They are people too, just like you and me, they have a families, they are part of a larger community, they have parents, and they have people
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