Why vote No? There are so many reasons for me. My biggest being if this amendment is put into the constitution the LGBTQ community will continue to be seen as second-class, something less than human. I don't want anyone to go through the struggles I went through just to be accepted my own family and to gain the rights that most people already had.
Being a lesbian, when I find that special someone I do want to get married to them, not in a church since I'm Pagan and that would be weird, but I would like that piece of paper that says I'm committed to that person for the rest of my life. I know most people argue that it's only a piece of paper, but if that's true, why should it matter if I have it?
Really it all boils down to the same thing. Equality. How can America claim to treat everyone as equals, to be the land of the free, when a group of people are denied the right to marry just because of who they love? And the only reason for this is based on one groups religion, when America drums home that church and state are separate. Kinda hard to believe when the only argument against gay marriage is religion.
My name is Buttons, I'm 20 and I'm a lesbian. I've been out since the age of 13 and am very active in the LGBT community.
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