FREEDOM FOUNDATION

DO you hear that? That sound bellowing over the crowd of the indignant hoards of people screaming "NO". Do you hear it?

I hear it! It's the sound of a thousand homosexuals all demanding the right to choose. The rights not necessarily to choose who they want to spend their lives with, but at least the right to choose how they choose spend their lives with the one that they love and what they call their union. It's a right that the masses seem to want to take away from them. Me, personally I ain't having it, and I don't think my fellow homosexuals are going to take it lying down either. "No pun intended" Their choosing to be equal despite who they sleep with. Something the masses have determined to make the cause of our separate but equal classifications.

Something is happening in America today; something that directly affects Lesbian and Gay men living in America trying to build families and lives. That affects me as a gay black man living in America and at some point will affect choices that I may or may not make in my future. It's at a crucial point in the time line of American History where if we don’t stand soon, there is no doubt that we are going to fall. If you haven’t figured out what I am talking about by now let me be clear.

Amendment #1 is a state constitutional ban on gay marriages on The Georgia Law books today. The amendment is clearly a blatant disregard for our first amendment rights. Which give us the freedom to exercise our beliefs, weather they be religious or in love. But Lets take this one step further it is a blatant disregard for separation of church and state. Is it not the Religious masses that seem to think we don’t deserve the title of marriage? Clearly it makes no sense that LGBT men and women should not be allowed such a title as husband and wife, especially not if it means saying Husband and Husband, or Wife and Wife. In my opinion, and this is my opinion, this new brand of persecution is tearing into the foundation of which this country was initially established, Freedom.

Is this not the reason why the Pilgrams fled from England; to escape the religious persecution of the English. Is Freedom of choice not what they were in persuit of? So what pray tell gives the whore government it’s religious pimps the right to tell us What freedom is, what our choices should, or should not be? Who are they to tell us who we can and can not spend our life with?

Honestly, is it truly fare that my lover of fifteen years lay dying in a hospital bed, while I debate the validity of our relationship with a night nurse. Is it truly right that our child sit in some school nurses office petulant, stomach seething with pain, and sickly while I try to explain to the admissions office why I came to pick he/she up from school instead of his working father, whom I have been building a life with for the last seven years, and loving his son as if he were my own. Was it not I who packs his lunch every day? Was it not I who drops him off at school everyday, takes him to his Tae-kwon-do class everyday, washes those dirty things he calls sock EVERYDAY! I MEAN REALLY EVERYDAY! Is that not apart of parenthood?

Let’s get real Life here ends, that is what makes it so special. The relationships we build, the people you love; are they not all that much more special because you realize one day that they will be gone? I May not have a special someone now, hell, you may not have a special someone now, but do we not all aspire to have that? The white picket fence, the 3 bedroom house with the 2.5 bedrooms, with the amazing kitchen, the two bad ass kids with ADD, and lets not forget Snickers the dog. I do, I so want that. But who gives the government the right to tell me what foundation that should be built on and what foundation is solid. Marriage is a word, the love, the connection, the rights are what we’re fighting for. Keep your word, but give us our rights…