People deserve to get married. People outside the traditional nuclear family have rights. The Biblical definition of marriage shouldn’t be the only way marriage is valid.
Unfortunately for those in the queer community, this right is under attack.
According to a recent article in the Washington Post, groups in Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Michigan and Montana have filed suit to have the court case which granted the right to marriage to all people, Obergefell vs. Hodges, overturned.
The reviewing of the court case Obergefell vs. Hodges is much more than a legal issue. To reconsider the validity in the ruling of this case is to reconsider if people in the LGBTQ+ community deserve rights.
The right to marriage equality should not be political. Time after time, the people who usually vote for Republicans told me not to worry, and that right would never be taken away from the queer community, but that is exactly what is happening.
This feels like the first step into something more. How deep of cuts will he get away with making before someone steps in to stop this?
Surrounding himself with little girls, President Trump signed an executive order banning trans athletes from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity. He has threatened take away funding if schools did not obey this order.
This only further deepens the isolation transgender and gender non-conforming students already face.
This order is not achieving anything that will better the schools and sports divisions affected, nor the country as a whole. The reason this order was signed is because we have someone in office who is completely focused on people who are already marginalized.
We have seen marginalized people being targeted time and time again, both on the campaign trail and currently.
Actions like cutting back on D.E.I doesn’t only hurt people in the LGBTQ+ community, though. The DEI act allowed for people to be hired based on credentials, and prevented companies from turning someone down due to race, age, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability or other aspects of social identity.
A large majority of the United States falls into at least one of those categories, and taking that away results in a very regressive political and social landscape. We can already see this happening.
In comment sections of social media, there has been a large uptick in derogatory language and slurs.
Mark Zuckerburg, owner of META recently came out and said that Facebook and Instagram are no longer taking down content of people who claim homosexuality is a mental disease.
This encourages young people online to discriminate against those who are different or who they don’t agree with, further dividing our country. All of these things are detrimental to the well being of queer people; especially those under 18.
Having to worry about being tormented for simply expressing yourself or being yourself is not an easy thing to deal with.
Adults in my life often tell me it is much easier to be queer than it was when they were young and I accept.
If these rights are taken away, then we are going back to the old days when being gay or alternative could get you arrested.
