When I look into my love's eyes, I feel happy. I feel truly happy. I want everyone to know of my happiness, of the joy I feel when I see his smile and taste his lips on mine.
It's a truly wonderful thing to be in love, to have the love of that person who was made just for you. You feel like you're ready to burst with exciting news, and it takes everything out of you not to shout it from the mountaintops for all the world to hear. You want to share that happiness with the world.
In my country, we are as backwards as we come. Bullied by society and their irrational fear of damnation for being sentinent beings, they have created the taboo of homosexuality, transgendered/transvestites, bisexuality- anything other than heterosexuality, it seems. For all of their fears of the so-called 'abominations', they choose to ignore the passages that talk about not judging others, loving all persons as good brothers and sisters should, and only hating the sin they commit, not the person themselves, but instead focus on the ones that call for hatred and division.
This 'proud, black and Christian nation' I call home is content on re-enacting the discrimination and prejudice that we suffered not too long ago as balck slaves upon people whose only crime is that they loved someone outside of the norm. This country DISGUSTS me to no end.
The Right to Love is exactly that- a right. Not a privilege awarded to the fair and many, but a RIGHT awarded to ALL- just as we as human beings are given the right to simply exist as we are. The right to celebrate that love and be officially recognized as a union is just as important, as it is once again treated as an privilege here and in most places in this world. I sincerely hope that others like myself can band together in this backwards, intolerant country, and fix the status quo so that all men and women can be treated as equals as we are made to be treated.
The Right To Love
Posted by L. Braynen at 12:34 AM
Labels: homosexuality, hope, love, right
3 Comments:
I wouldnt call it backwards. To seem forwards is a construct made my the dominant super powers of the time, such as the states and western europe. we're not backwards, we're not progressive or all together completely engaged in humans rights however. im a lesbian bahamian, and though im not happy with the situation. i dont think we're backwards.
be careful how you use that.
ALSO, what is the rights that you seek for? many view things liek gay marriage as, encroaching on religious laws/influence/beliefs. is it only legal that you seek or to make a gay friendly heaven for all? legally it makes sense to give homosexual coupel the same rights as straight ones. but is this really possible in a country that legally lets itself be known as beign christian influenced. is it marriage, legal equality, religious equality or civil partnerships that youre going on about.
hey there claire, fantastic to meet you.
to respond, i think we're backwards in a lot of ways that extend far beyond the way we as a country treat homosexuals... actually i can't even say that anymore, anyone who doesn't seem to fit the cookie-cutter image of the stereotypical bahamian, we seem to have such a problem with acting like civil beings and must resort to some of the grandest forms of ignorance, intolerance and downright idiocy i've witness in my short time alive.
the rights i seek are the basic rights i think should be afforded to any other human being, not just legally but the right of acceptance. i don't have anything legal stopping me like you may be in things like marriage, but i'm treated rather poorly by most people that find out i'm not religious.
i don't think that the definition of 'equality' can be as easily broken down by legal or moral ramifications. whatever i'm able to enjoy and consider a 'right' in this country, i think that everyone should able to enjoy- regardless of whether or not we're a 'christian nation', which i call bullshit on, by the way.
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