The Republican Party of Montana is seeking to make homosexuality a crime, according to the Associated Press. The party claimed Saturday that it supports “the clear will of the people of Montana expressed by legislation to keep homosexual acts illegal.”
An attempt to pass a law criminalizing acts of homosexuality seems so ridiculous and unlikely to pass at this point in the civil rights game. So, you wouldn’t be wrong if you didn’t take these people seriously.
But alas, an attempt is being made and therefore I shall write for my beloved gays. Come on now though. Gays? Again?
The haters, homophobes, right-wingers, evangelicals, whatever box you want to assume these people are coming out of, are just wasting their breath as it is unnecessary and insulting to gays and supporters of the gay movement to add another hurdle to their track.
Unless you’ve been grossly uninformed for the last few years, the LGBT community has been making substantial headway in its fight for equal, God-given rights. Yet, ignorant, selfish f—s like the members of the Republican Party of Montana insist on holding onto the reigns of power.
Look, our country has been through this before. Thankfully the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Texas’ sodomy law in 2003. See Lawrence v. Texas. A similar law criminalizing acts of homosexuality in Montana was turned over in the Gryczan v. Montana decision of 1997. So the chances the GOP of Montana actually have of pulling this off are nonexistent.
The problem with the Montana thing, and others of the like, is that light is shed once again upon the fact that America cannot, and never will be a government that is by the people, of the people and for the people.
Five states and Washington D.C. have legalized gay marriage, while other states apparently are still attempting to punish people for mere acts of homosexuality.
Yes, power should be vested within the states to make their own decisions, but how does that speak for the United States, the so-called melting pot for our bullshit white picket fence American Dream. If we are unable to make a cohesive decision as a nation-state on a civil rights issue so pertinent to today’s and the future’s society, how can we call ourselves a democratic?
We cannot be divided on issues that claim such simplicity.
While it would be ignorant to hope that we will all magically see eye-to-eye on every major issue with the flick of a wand, I don’t think it’s too much to ask that we treat all people as equals. Everyone.
That’s right Montana. Homosexuals are people, too.
It’s not about whether or not you support or condone homosexuality. Don’t support it? That’s fine. Well, actually it’s not but that is beside the point. The point is that I didn’t choose to be straight, just like another individual didn’t choose to be gay. We are the way we are and no one person is more valuable than another.
It’s not like the LGBT community even wants to hold the proverbial reigns of power, either. They just want to be able to ride on the same damn carriage that everyone else gets to ride on.
It’s not politics; it’s about morality. So take the politics out of it all and give the gays some civil liberties already.
Jessica Wood is a senior biology major and a columnist for the Daily 49er.
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