Equality (The Important Kind)

My first post on my blog, let’s make it one worthwhile shall we?

Now, what do I mean by the important kind of equality, surely they’re all as important as each other. Well in today’s day and age most of us are equal to each other in many ways, gender, age blah blah blah. That’s old news. But there’s one “group” of people that are still having their rights stolen. A pretty harsh word right, in relation to equality, people usually tip toe around subjects like this.

What I am talking about of course, is Same-Sex Marriage and making homophobism a thing of the past because really, it’s not the Middle Ages anymore. What has spurred this need to blog about this subject is the song Same Love by Macklemore X Ryan Lewis feat. Mary Lambert. Listen to it here.

I love Macklemore because he raps about real things, real problems in the world that need addressing and seem to be overlooked by other artists. The last few lines in the second verse sound like they’re from my own mouth. “When everyone else, is more comfortable, remaining voiceless. Rather than fighting for humans, that have had their rights stolen. I might not be the same. But that’s not important. No freedom ’til we’re equal. Damn right I support it.”

Now if that’s not powerful I don’t know what is. When will everyone finally realise that it doesn’t matter who we love, who we marry. We’re all human, end of. Loving the same gender doesn’t make you any less of a person just like having different coloured skin to the man sitting next to you on the bus does.

My generation are lucky, we’ve grown up seeing people protesting for Gay Rights and have made our own minds up on it. Most have decided to support them, like myself, as we have unbiased views. Older generations have listened to propaganda by the Church, or by older members of their families and were led to believe in the stereotypes, that homosexuality was wrong and not natural.

I support Same-Sex Marriage, just like any “normal” human being should. We are all equal.