by Marvin J. Ramirez
Marvin J. Ramirez
The news of gays getting married has been heard by now in most community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within the Latino community is widely in most cases is something that can’t be accepted, although most Latinos have become more tolerant.
A latest California Supreme Court ruling allows gay and lesbians to marry. It has become law, and will take effect next week.
Like alcohol in the time of Prohibition, liquor not only was against the law, but those who considered themselves, law-abiding citizens, abhorred those who were involved with its use. Today is the most normal thing in the world to do.
Marihuana is now illegal, although in some instances doctors can prescribe the drug to their patients. Now it’s use has become more tolerant by many.
When some acts in society fare labeled illegal from a legal point of view, their practitioners face a moral condemnation by all means. They are viewed with despise and rejection, and sometimes treated like criminals, and less than people.
Many gay people we see walking on the street in our every-day life are monogamous and are respectful people. However, because they are gays, our societal perception is that they are bed people, not deserving our respect and love.
By the rejection from society, we condemn them to live like sub-humans and be treated without respect. This behavior or ours creates the grounds for a subculture, making them live a life as anti-socials.
At the end, if this law that will allow them to get married will provide them the same opportunity heterosexual enjoy, which is to allow them to choose a monogamous relation with their partners in a more responsible way with commitment, let’s accept it.
As human beings, they deserve to live with respect and dignity within their own sexual preferences, and if a marriage certificate will provide that opportunity to them, so be it.
I bet no one will notice whether a gay couple walking on the street with their spouse Ð as they do now Ð is married or not.
We are not God to judge or deny rights to others based on our own beliefs and moral standards.
