The world has been going up in flames with governments deciding to take a stand about homosexuality and the legality or the illegality of such an act, and in some instances about the validity of a marital alliance between same-sex couples. I too have an opinion about the issue, and I will lay it down here.
Social media has influenced our lives to a very extreme degree, much to the point that we have opinions about everything and anything even if it is something we have never come in contact with or known or will ever do. Do not get me wrong, I do not have a single thing against social media. But the way of the world is that bad news/stigma/insults/misleading and highly opinionated articles tend to travel much faster than any good/unadulterated/un-opinionated news. The social media just made it infinitely quick. So now, we have to have an opinion the moment we see something, and we have a desperate need for labels (right/wrong, crime/not a crime). We fail to understand, we were not born to judge or be judged, but to live and let live.
To put it bluntly, No person, and certainly No government has any place in an individuals bedroom. Sex between adults is an act of consent, and should always remain so, no matter how bizarre the act itself is. But to force someone into such an act, or coerce someone into it, or taking advantage of one's age or situation to do so is wrong and should be punished accordingly. So, there are laws against rape, blackmail, pedophiles, and quite rightly so because the weak need to be protected and that is why governments exist. And I also agree that, whether same-sex marriage is legal or not should be left to the local governing agencies to decide, because marriage is a social ritual to stay obligated and to stay true to the norms of the society and the benefits bestowed upon a married couple come from the resources of such a society(in terms of insurance benefits, property benefits, ownership rights upon spouse's death and so on and so forth).
Criminalizing homosexuality itself, I do not know how that is going to do anything. How often do you know how your colleague at work handles his bedroom business? Its not nature's way to do so? What is nature's way anyway? and what do we care about nature's way? We kill and eat indiscriminately, we pump up chickens with antibiotics and fatten them up fast , which I am pretty sure is not nature's way. Do we walk everywhere we go? Is that not what nature gave us legs for? We give growth hormones to cows to make them give more milk, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Forget about making thousands of animal and plant species going extinct, polluting the environment, deforestation, genetic modification, test tube babies, surrogate mothers, milk powders, nuclear wars, plastic.... phew let me take a breath here and stop. Because I know the list will never end. And say what???? Nature's way?? Don't make me laugh.
So don't give me that nonsense about nature's way. Do not use it as an excuse to just do whatever you want. Rape is a crime in India, but whoever listens to a poor raped woman's tale? Instead of being protected and rehabilitated, she is jeered at and shunned by the society. She is not going to get married. She is the slutty one cos she was raped and it makes a lot of sense to say a victim was the mastermind behind it all. What about domestic abuse? Will anyone sit quiet if someone pummells them in the market because they had a difference of opinion? So how is it ok, to do the same to your wife and get away with it? Marital Rape... don't even get me started on that. Child abuse. So you are saying you will do what you like even it is a crime, but what you do not like, even if it does not concern you in the least, should be a crime?????? Give me a freaking break you insolent hypocrite.
It is not the government's place to decide if one's sexual orientation is a crime. It is the government's duty to protect the weak and the bullied and that is the end of it. And those imbeciles in the government do not safeguard laws which are already present, so why do they need to add more to it for? Its just to pull wool over the normal citizens eyes so nobody will look at the actual corruption going on in the country in the name of administration...What a load of bull..
Social media has influenced our lives to a very extreme degree, much to the point that we have opinions about everything and anything even if it is something we have never come in contact with or known or will ever do. Do not get me wrong, I do not have a single thing against social media. But the way of the world is that bad news/stigma/insults/misleading and highly opinionated articles tend to travel much faster than any good/unadulterated/un-opinionated news. The social media just made it infinitely quick. So now, we have to have an opinion the moment we see something, and we have a desperate need for labels (right/wrong, crime/not a crime). We fail to understand, we were not born to judge or be judged, but to live and let live.
To put it bluntly, No person, and certainly No government has any place in an individuals bedroom. Sex between adults is an act of consent, and should always remain so, no matter how bizarre the act itself is. But to force someone into such an act, or coerce someone into it, or taking advantage of one's age or situation to do so is wrong and should be punished accordingly. So, there are laws against rape, blackmail, pedophiles, and quite rightly so because the weak need to be protected and that is why governments exist. And I also agree that, whether same-sex marriage is legal or not should be left to the local governing agencies to decide, because marriage is a social ritual to stay obligated and to stay true to the norms of the society and the benefits bestowed upon a married couple come from the resources of such a society(in terms of insurance benefits, property benefits, ownership rights upon spouse's death and so on and so forth).
Criminalizing homosexuality itself, I do not know how that is going to do anything. How often do you know how your colleague at work handles his bedroom business? Its not nature's way to do so? What is nature's way anyway? and what do we care about nature's way? We kill and eat indiscriminately, we pump up chickens with antibiotics and fatten them up fast , which I am pretty sure is not nature's way. Do we walk everywhere we go? Is that not what nature gave us legs for? We give growth hormones to cows to make them give more milk, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Forget about making thousands of animal and plant species going extinct, polluting the environment, deforestation, genetic modification, test tube babies, surrogate mothers, milk powders, nuclear wars, plastic.... phew let me take a breath here and stop. Because I know the list will never end. And say what???? Nature's way?? Don't make me laugh.
So don't give me that nonsense about nature's way. Do not use it as an excuse to just do whatever you want. Rape is a crime in India, but whoever listens to a poor raped woman's tale? Instead of being protected and rehabilitated, she is jeered at and shunned by the society. She is not going to get married. She is the slutty one cos she was raped and it makes a lot of sense to say a victim was the mastermind behind it all. What about domestic abuse? Will anyone sit quiet if someone pummells them in the market because they had a difference of opinion? So how is it ok, to do the same to your wife and get away with it? Marital Rape... don't even get me started on that. Child abuse. So you are saying you will do what you like even it is a crime, but what you do not like, even if it does not concern you in the least, should be a crime?????? Give me a freaking break you insolent hypocrite.
It is not the government's place to decide if one's sexual orientation is a crime. It is the government's duty to protect the weak and the bullied and that is the end of it. And those imbeciles in the government do not safeguard laws which are already present, so why do they need to add more to it for? Its just to pull wool over the normal citizens eyes so nobody will look at the actual corruption going on in the country in the name of administration...What a load of bull..
