Same-Sex Marriage Foes Need to See Past Stereotypes

I listen to the ignorant, rampant anti-gay sentiment everyday and encounter it regularly at Windham High School. It angers me to see people making claims that gay marriage is going to alter the minds of children and corrupt the standards of Christianity.

As for the people who make those claims, over the radio, on the television: Do you think that they have ever, in their lives, seen past the negative (and stupid) stereotypes spread by the media and ignorant fools? Stereotypes such as all gay people have lisps and like fashion and dress up like girls or that all gays are irresponsible with sex and go to gay orgies and get AIDS and spread AIDS.

In fact, high school girls are just as irresponsible as some gay men. Straight males have sex just as stupidly. Gays probably have just as explicit fantasies and desires as straight men do. But gays are different, and so they are portrayed in some media and in some churches in the ”gay man stereotype.” You know, the feminine, let’s go shopping and get our nails done stereotype that some gays fall into. I even feed the fire daily when I call things ”gay” casually talking to friends.

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