But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah
Madness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all
People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practise what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek
Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love
Black Eyed Peas, Where is the Love
The title is a portmanteau of intersex and intersection. This is from isna.org: "Though we speak of intersex as an inborn condition, intersex anatomy doesn’t always show up at birth. Sometimes a person isn’t found to have intersex anatomy until she or he reaches the age of puberty, or finds himself an infertile adult, or dies of old age and is autopsied. Some people live and die with intersex anatomy without anyone (including themselves) ever knowing."
Think about the implications for a moment. This says that it is a medical fact that it is hard to define the male and female spectrum when genetics can blend the two seamlessly. A person may have male genitalia and be heterosexual, only to find out at the age of fifty when they were X-rayed that they have a female aspect in their anatomy.
In a world with biology such as this, who can really argue that same sex marriage and LGBTI communities should be outlawed? Shouldn't we demand that they be x-rayed to verify that they are the "gender" that they claim is as "nature intended?" If they are going to make such arrogant and ignorant judgments on people, they should have something to back it up, but medical science tells us that biological gender falls on a spectrum, not into two neat holes. How do they even know that they are the actual gender that they make themselves out to be? This medical fact throws EVERYTHING into question. Some might say these are abominations that never should have been born, but they were born, and in great numbers. Add to this the spectrum of gender identity, and it becomes very difficult to tell where one gender ends the other begins.
Wikipedia says that 1971 is when the first anti-same sex marriage bill was passed and got a ruling from the US supreme court saying it didn't violate the constitution. Before this was passed, there was no restriction on gender in any marriage statute in the U.S. We have been fighting this battle for almost 43 years. The people who say they are trying to save our traditions are frankly full of shit, because the laws only started 42 years ago. You can't claim that it's traditional because it's biologically difficult to say where one gender ends and the other begins, remember? DOMA was only passed in 1996. The legal definition of "spouse" as the opposite sex throughout the entire population is only 17 years old. People have somehow forgotten that they didn't always think like this. The government made us think like this, like ignorant bigoted people with no conscience or sense of compassion. This hate against the LGBTI is the same hate that fuels racism, sexism, and all the other isms of oppression. It's all artificial and only recently been made official in the greater scheme of things. State after state in the union are reversing their positions on saying that same-sex marriage is not legally recognized, the dominoes are already falling.
This is a concept that even children can grasp, why is it so hard for adults? The kids spell it out for us plainly: using religion as an excuse to discriminate against LGBTI people is using their own religion against someone else. These are basic, basic rights that are being oppressed. Are you really going to sit there and claim to know better than these children who can and can't be married? They are our future leaders. You aging dying bigots are shrinking in number. The number of people who are supporting same-sex marriage is blossoming. You've lost the fight, you just don't know it yet.
If you just make it legal across the board, you'll save yourselves a lot of time and energy. Time and energy that could be spent improving the quality of life, not devaluing it. You can't make a modern society and claim it's "enlightened" when such outright persecution exists. That's a fascist dictatorship claiming to be something else. The government only has this much power over this modern society because they've duped gullible Americans into believing them.
Wake up America! Wake the fuck up! Your tired old philosophies are on the way out. Don't be a sissy, take it like a "man." Admit you are defeated. The people are better and stronger and more numerous than you. We are the majority, we have the power and the obligation to demand equal rights for everyone.
It's the same hate that's caused wars from religion
Gender to skin color, the complexion of your pigment
The same fight that led people to walk-outs and sit-ins
It's human rights for everybody, there is no difference
Live on! And be yourself!
When I was in church they taught me something else
If you preach hate at the service, those words aren't anointed
That Holy Water that you soak in has been poisoned
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
Macklemore, Ryan Lewis & Mary Lambert - Same Love
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