R002727
Tuesday, March 26, 2002 2:51 AM
Disrimination of 9/11
I just finished reading an article about the September 11 relief funds that
made me ashamed to be in this country. It sickens me that a person of illegal
status in the country can receive funds, but someone born and raised, who
works each day, pays their taxes, and is a credit to the country, cannot
receive this fund, only because of the sexual preference they have. I do
believe that it is illegal in this country to discriminate against people
because of ones sexuality. I know it's against the law to discriminate
against people because of their religion, if they have HIV/AIDS, if they're
female, or if they have a different skin color, and no one slides on those
rules, they're set in stone. So why is this law able to bend? Why can people
look the other way a gay man or a lesbian women is concerned? Did they not
suffer the same? Was the pain not as real because they came home and cried
with a person of the same sex instead of the opposite? Were their tears not
as frequent? Their heartache not as real? Is a person of less value because
of a choice in their life? And may I add that it is not a choice to be gay,
it is a choice to be open about being gay. So would you rather have people
hide their true selves from the world? To be fake and pretend to be happy
with the wife they don't love and the kids born into a fake relationship? I
think that would constitute much more of a problem then a few people looking
the other way when a male couple walks down the street. This entire ordeal
has made me sick, and more ashamed of my American blood then I ever thought
possible to be. Isn't this the land of freedom? The land when people are free
to be themselves, no matter what anyone else thinks of them. The land of
opportunity. Shouldn't everyone have the opportunity to grieve? To receive
the same treatment as every other person during a time of great sadness? If
this is what the government calls Freedom and Opportunity then someone needs
to hand them a dictionary. Or better yet, put them in the shoes of a gay man,
a person infected with HIV/AIDS, an Atheist, A women, and see how well they
hold up, see how many things are changed.
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