Analyzing Macklemore's Song 'Same Love'

Song Analysis: Same Love – Macklemore
“What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality.” Alex Sanchez provides a perfect quote for the opening of this paper. Macklemore’s song and Sanchez’s quote fit hand in hand without flaw. Thus, this song is basically trying to make a statement to all people that discrimination against homosexuality is truly sickening. It doesn’t matter what religion you are or what belief you might have; sending hate to someone who is just being themselves is wrong all the way around. You don’t have to like it, you don’t have to believe in it, but like anything else, you have to respect it. Whatever morals you may have are not always the same as
Looking at the lyrics, it seems that he’s always known homosexuality to be a sin. So when he considers the fact that he might be gay, he cries to his mother. Something interesting I noticed, however, was the fact that Ben was only in third grade when he introduced this thought to himself and his mother. Why is a third grade boy crying, let alone worrying, about his sexuality? How does he even know that it’s such a huge controversy going on in this world? But then you look back at the third line and notice he said his uncle was gay. I’m assuming that someone in his family has made that simple characteristic of his uncle to be something more outrageous than it really is, causing Ben to constantly look out for people like so and also to be terrified to become someone like his uncle. Coming to the end of the first part of the intro, he presents a few stereotypes that give him comfort that he, in fact, is not a homosexual like the fact “he’s loved girls since before pre-k” and “he’s good in little
According to the specific religion Macklemore is rapping about, since the very beginning, God made it clear that homosexuality is a sin. In the third line of the second intro, he says “The right wing conservatives think it's a decision and you can be cured with some treatment and religion”. I believe he is stating that if you are gay or think you might be, turn yourself to God and you’ll be cured. You’ll be normal. You’ll be accepted.
However, the bible clearly teaches love, and that “God loves all his children”. That quote definitely contradicts every bit of targeting homosexuality. If God loved all of his children, then why are gays the only exception? In the last couple of lines, he comes to a good point. The earliest bibles were written nearly 3500 years ago. Throughout time, we have paraphrased and interpreted the message numerously. So does that mean that we took God’s message out of context and manipulated it into something