Persuasive Speech On Lgbt Rights
The issue of LGBT rights has always been an issue since the beginning of time. Since society sees members from the LGBT community as different and not normal, they are constantly discriminated against. America is supposed to be a country of freedom, but it seems as though whenever we discover something that we don’t like we figure out a way to try and make it disappear. However, I believe it is wrong to discriminate against the LGBT community. In the Constitution it states all men have equal rights, and I believe that should include everyone not just certain people. To discriminate on someone because of their sexual preference should become an illegal thing to do in the United States as stated by ACLU. America has been through multiple stages of discrimination, but it seems we can’t get past the fact that there
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I understand that people are not very accepting to change, but there comes a time where you need to suck up your feelings and move on. It is the twenty first century, and we should be way past the stages of discriminating against people. Our lesson should have been learned when it was the fifties and sixties, and we were fighting for the rights of the African Americans and as well as women. How is it possible that we go from claiming we are a free country and treat everyone equal to cutting off the rights of others? That is not right and it contradicts who we are as a country. It is not right and we know that, but we continue to snatch people’s rights away from them. I believe that the major contributor to this discrimination is when the Supreme Court decided to legalize same-sex marriage. On June 26, 201, the Supreme Court ruled on the decision that the US Constitution guarantee the right of same-sex marriage. This one ruling is what changed America forever. As you can expect many people were excited for the ruling because finally a decision had been made that helped out the LGBT community.
I understand that people are not very accepting to change, but there comes a time where you need to suck up your feelings and move on. It is the twenty first century, and we should be way past the stages of discriminating against people. Our lesson should have been learned when it was the fifties and sixties, and we were fighting for the rights of the African Americans and as well as women. How is it possible that we go from claiming we are a free country and treat everyone equal to cutting off the rights of others? That is not right and it contradicts who we are as a country. It is not right and we know that, but we continue to snatch people’s rights away from them. I believe that the major contributor to this discrimination is when the Supreme Court decided to legalize same-sex marriage. On June 26, 201, the Supreme Court ruled on the decision that the US Constitution guarantee the right of same-sex marriage. This one ruling is what changed America forever. As you can expect many people were excited for the ruling because finally a decision had been made that helped out the LGBT community.