Basic rights are just that. They are
basic. I don't see why they are debated. To me, the most basic of
all rights is equality. It is the right to be treated the same with
the treatment being based on your actions and not any inherent trait
you can't control.
For the 2012 voting cycle, my biggest
issue is equality in all senses of the word. I want there to be no
gay hate. I want people to get the same amount of money for the
same job. People are just people. They aren't any different than
the ones we are the most comfortable with. To me, that gives a truly
great country that we were once proud of.
That really only leaves me with one
candidate that I would vote for in the presidential candidate. The
only person I would really ever consider in this race is Barack
Obama. His outspoken view about gay marriage is something that makes
me feel safe in the way that nothing else really does.
He has other qualities that make me
really happy. I just think that within the republican candidacy
there is just no good that comes out of it. I see people backsliding
into the past when all we should be doing is looking to the future.
The future where equality and diversity is not something that seems
strange or weird but seems delightfully normal. I've always thought
that it seemed weird that more people don't have a worldview that
appreciates diversity, but I need it. It makes life more
interesting. The way to encourage that is to make it easier to be
different, to be equal.
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