President Obama was so brave to
give his personal opinion on same-sex marriage, one of the great moral and
human rights crusades of our age. It especially was a brave thing to do, given
the upcoming presidential elections.
Cameron, Britain’s
Prime Minister, has legalised gay marriage by 2015. But, despite that, Cameron
still opposes to heterosexual civil
partnership. Gay couples seek full equality, so also a civil partnership. To
have separate laws for gay and straight people is a form of sexual apartheid.
In a poll, held in March 2012, 65% of the public in England agreed to gay
people having equal rights, thus also civil partnership.
Small things to
some, are sometimes very big things to others. I mean, I do not mind at all
that gay people get married. I don’t even feel I have the right to be for or
against it. Why should I have something to say about someone else’s choices concerning this? I’m happy for every
man or woman who wants to get married. And we, here in the Netherlands, can
lean backward, because we have sorted it
out already. But I can understand that it is a big issue in a lot of other
countries. A man like Obama of course, and his opinions, can have a great ,
positive, influence on a matter like the legislation of gay-marriage. The trend towards equality is inevitable and
belongs to our developing society, but it still is brave for a president, to
speak his mind on a moral topic, just before the elections.
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