Gay Marriage and the Rest of Us

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by Quinn Bradlee
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

My mother showed me this morning, an article about how gay marriage is now legal in Washington, DC. I always knew that one day it would happen; my mom had always told me that in forty years from now people are going to be thinking to themselves, "what were we thinking," as in not letting gay marriage being allowed. It just so happens that the article this morning was about my fiancé's good friends, who are going to be the first gay couple to get married in Washington, DC.

To me gays and lesbians should get some recognition and if they are different, than we, people with learning disabilities are different. Being gay is something that is part of who you are, whether you knew this from a young age or only realized it much later in life. In a way being learning disabled is very much the same way. Though we have medicines for LD and that can help us a little bit, but for the most part our learning difference is who we are and part of our identity.

I was watching a documentary last night about the first group of astronauts that went to space, and they had footage onboard the spacecraft of one of the astronauts taking the first picture of the earth. When they saw the earth for the first time they realized how small the planet was, and they said that it wasn't the Americans that landed on the people, but it was the people of earth.

If you look at one of the pictures of how small the planet is (or at least when I do), I realize that we are all one species and that our home is actually not that big, it is just a speck of dust; we are a very small and young race. We the people of the earth have a responsibility, and that responsibility is to keep the earth clean, and in order to do that we must learn that we are and are not different from one another, and to work as one.