There's not too much worth talking about right now. All I've been doing for the last few days is some homework here and there, like finishing off genetics labs and working on my extra credit poster for immunology, but it's not like I've been trying really hard on anything.

My last big thing left is my grant. That I REALLY need to work on this weekend. I don't know why, but I just cannot bring myself to work on it. Maybe it's the semestrial exhaustion.

I have to say that I was particularly bothered tonight by my dad's actions. He was watching Grey's Anatomy with my mom and there was this scene where there's this soldier who has brain cancer and another soldier is in the room with him. Well, I guess they were boyfriends or something like that, because they started kissing in a romantic manner, and throughout it, my dad's making all these disgusted noises.

What bothered me is that it reminded me of my attitudes towards gays maybe five years ago. Suffice it to say, I was one of those people who was all "it's unnatural" and calling it a genetic fallacy of nature. Crap like that. Nowadays, I am embarrassed by that position that I had, because frankly, it's not right. It's not right politically, it's not right legally, and it's not right morally.

Those attitudes are ones of discrimination, blatant and obvious, to anyone with a clear mind. Since then, my position has changed to the opposite. Now, I am in favor of laws banning discrimination against people for their sexual orientation. I don't care if religious institutions don't like it, it's a moral wrong. They should be the first ones to be accepting. This isn't a matter of religion, it's a matter of right and wrong. Furthermore, I am in favor of adding anti-gay motivated actions, especially those in high schools, where the problem is worst, as a hate crime, punishable by prison sentences in extreme case. Education though is the best way. Rather than punishing people for anti-homosexual behaviour, which will only make them more resentful, these persons should be put into some kind of program that will promote understanding.

I am also in favor of homosexuals adopting children. Children first of all need people who love and care for them. It does not matter what the sex of the parents are if they love them and can provide for them the kind of education and raising that every child deserves.

I am in favor of homosexual marriage and civil unions. Because marriage is a religious/political thing, churches may refuse to allow the marriages in their buildings, but they have NO jurisdiction over the law. The law of this country dictates principally that all people are equal before the law and entitled to the same rights and privledges entitled by the constitution of this great nation. Discrimination of homosexuals from these rights does not enhance the rights of those of us who are not gay, but rather diminishes it. When others are excluded from the same rights that we enjoy, we do not live in an egalitarian society, but rather, one that proports to dictate rather than protect.

The argument that permitting gay marriage will lead to the destruction of the family is a fallacy. I see no evidence in countries with gay marriage that families are no longer existing. The integrity of family is dictated not by society, but by the mutual commitment of two consenting adults and the decisions they make through love. Gay marriage does not relate in any way to bestiality or polygamy or pedophilia. These are instances where there is not consent on the part of some party (the first being an animal, the second being the consent of normally a woman in the face of the law [all consequential marriages after a first without divorce means she has no rights], and the last being a child). Homosexuality is not the same as these and the permissiveness of gay marriage will not lead to a landslide of these aggregious behaviors.

The purpose of the United Stats is to ensure the rights of others and not to discriminate because people live differently. The legacy of minorities in this country has been to fight for equal representation and rights. The previous generations were concerned about the rights of women and of racial minorities. Now, it is time for those of good conscience of the equal rights of all humans before the law to stand for the rights of homosexuals. That is the morally right thing to do.