First Post

So I suppose I should start off with saying hi! You can call me Wally. I decided to start this blog after keeping the majority of my thoughts on Gay Rights to myself and wishing I could do something. That's how this blog was born. I'm not sure if anyone is, or will ever be, reading this post or any others, but I do hope someone one day will.

During my high school years was when I realized how I truly felt about Gay Rights. It wasn't a subject that came up much growing up simply because it didn't relate to our family like it did to others. However, in high school, I started realizing how I felt about the subject. Thinking people should be able to love and marry who they want to regardless of gender wasn't an idea that should be thought about and fought over in my young adolescent mind, nor was it hard for me to understand that being gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender isn't something you CHOOSE to be, its predetermined before birth when your DNA is being formed. Why is that so hard for some people to get? It has nothing to do with choice or religion!

Sadly, I, myself, am straight, no question about it. My DNA makeup was uncool like that. Because, although the world today can be full of bigotry and hate, there is a reason it is called gay PRIDE, am I right? I know I am very proud to be friends with the few LGBT members that I'm friends with. I admire them and think they are the most wonderful, awesome people. Not saying my straight friends aren't!

So besides my obvious love and respect for LGBT in general, what caused me to finally start a blog was what happened in North Carolina this evening on May 8, 2012. The NC Government voted to BAN gay marriage in the state with their Amendment One. This state already was 1 of 30 states of ban gay marriage, but this amendment makes it so their civil unions and other types of domestic partnerships will no longer be recognized as legal to the state. What kind of crap is this?! This country will allow a man and a woman to get married and divorced in a span of a few hours AND let a man marry a woman then cheat on her, sometimes multiple times, or beat the crap out of her and possibly kill her, but it won't allow two people that JUST HAPPEN to be the same gender, who are in a committed, adult relationship get married?! They can open a business together, own a home together, and live together for 20+ years or more then buy side-by-side burial plots and spend eternity next to each other, just, you know, not actually be ACKNOWLEDGED as a legitimate couple by the GOVERNMENT! You know, the people we trust to look after our country and keep us safe. You know 60 years ago, it was also believed the people from two different religions or races couldn't be married. Before that it was two people from different social classes. Isn't it time America be truly equal to ALL?

People fall in love with people, not genders.