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Homosexuality is the sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one’s own sex. Heterosexuality is the sexual feeling or desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex. Love means a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. Love does not specify who we can or cannot or even should love, it states “another person.” If love does not judge the sex of the other person then why should we? Just because one female choose to love another female, and a male chooses to love another male then that should not make a difference. No one judges heterosexuals just because they like the opposite sex, so why should we judge others because they like the same sex? What is really the big difference? We do not know that persons’ life on the daily basis, that person could have gone through a lot of hard times in his/her life which caused them to be a certain way. There are many factors that can contribute to the way a person chooses to live their life. Those factors can include traumatic experiences in their childhood, the way men or women are perceived in their life, the way that the child is brought up, and also different things that the child is exposed to. In the late 1950’s early 1960’s when homosexuality became an issue, doctors believed that it was a mental illness. Doctors believed that there was something in a homosexual’s brain to make them homosexuals, they also believed that a homosexuals brain was suppose to be worse than a “normal” person’s. As time went by doctors would run test and come up empty handed consistently. They could never prove or figure it out so therefore it was no longer considered an illness. In other words, to most it means homosexuals are equal to heterosexuals, so why do we CHOOSE to steady discriminate, and make judgments on homosexuals in everyday life. According to freelibrary.com “Los Angeles launched the nation’s first gay magazine. Gays and lesbians were thought to be dangerous and sneaky as communists.” Communists? Homosexuals are compared to a group of people who destroyed parts of the world through the government and etc., just because who they are homosexuals are placed in the same group with these people and that is not right. People see homosexuality as being a problem, others disagree. I am one of the one’s that disagree and I am here to argue my point.
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Homosexuality is the sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one’s own sex. Heterosexuality is the sexual feeling or desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex. Love means a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. Love does not specify who we can or cannot or even should love, it states “another person.” If love does not judge the sex of the other person then why should we? Just because one female choose to love another female, and a male chooses to love another male then that should not make a difference. No one judges heterosexuals just because they like the opposite sex, so why should we judge others because they like the same sex? What is really the big difference? We do not know that persons’ life on the daily basis, that person could have gone through a lot of hard times in his/her life which caused them to be a certain way. There are many factors that can contribute to the way a person chooses to live their life. Those factors can include traumatic experiences in their childhood, the way men or women are perceived in their life, the way that the child is brought up, and also different things that the child is exposed to. In the late 1950’s early 1960’s when homosexuality became an issue, doctors believed that it was a mental illness. Doctors believed that there was something in a homosexual’s brain to make them homosexuals, they also believed that a homosexuals brain was suppose to be worse than a “normal” person’s. As time went by doctors would run test and come up empty handed consistently. They could never prove or figure it out so therefore it was no longer considered an illness. In other words, to most it means homosexuals are equal to heterosexuals, so why do we CHOOSE to steady discriminate, and make judgments on homosexuals in everyday life. According to freelibrary.com “Los Angeles launched the nation’s first gay magazine. Gays and lesbians were thought to be dangerous and sneaky as communists.” Communists? Homosexuals are compared to a group of people who destroyed parts of the world through the government and etc., just because who they are homosexuals are placed in the same group with these people and that is not right. People see homosexuality as being a problem, others disagree. I am one of the one’s that disagree and I am here to argue my point.2
The first issue about homosexuality I would like to discuss would be discrimination in the workplace. When you are at work, it should not matter who you choose to be with or love at home. Work is work and only that. The news at softpedia.com states that “25-66% of lesbian or gay workers are discriminated, 37% only by the fact that the others ‘sniffed’ out that they were gay or lesbian. Over 10% were physically harassed, over 22% were verbally harassed and about 31% had to abandon or were fired from their jobs due to discrimination.” If a homosexual can do just as much work or produce the same output and put in as much input as a heterosexual, what should it matter who they like or love? Some might argue the fact that having a homosexual in the workplace could be distracting, though I could agree with this statement to a degree. That could be if the certain homosexual is just being all out flamboyant with their lifestyle, but we can not judge all homosexuals just because of one or two people. This situation could be with anyone though because a heterosexual can also be distracting to others whether they choose to like the other sex or not. For instance in several people’s eyes a homosexual being flamboyant is just like a heterosexual being flamboyant, not that big of a deal, it can go both ways. To a heterosexual who has a problem with this, if a homosexual came in talking about his/her sex life or personal life it would probably bother them; but sometimes if not most it is the same for homosexuals, if a heterosexual were to come in and talk about his/her personal and/or sex life then they could be bothered. So just because one chooses to love the same sex does not make them incapable of doing the same work. Another argument that some might use to justify the discrimination in the workplace would be the company’s “image.” They believe that having a homosexual as an employee would hurt the company’s image. A company supervisor that I recently interview by the name of Mark Williams works at a computer company in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. I recently asked him how does he feel about having homosexuals in the workplace and he disagrees with the idea 100%. I asked Mr. Williams why and he stated “Why would I want a ‘gay’ person to represent my company? That’s like giving a baby a script for a movie and expecting them to know it the next day.” Mr. Williams compared having a homosexual as an employee to a baby trying to read a script. No where in my eyes do I see that as that could even be a comparison. What happens if you do not that the person is a homosexual then what would happen? They would still be representing you the same way. Back to the point I was making earlier, homosexuals are just as capable of representing a company and working just like heterosexuals, so why discriminate?
The first issue about homosexuality I would like to discuss would be discrimination in the workplace. When you are at work, it should not matter who you choose to be with or love at home. Work is work and only that. The news at softpedia.com states that “25-66% of lesbian or gay workers are discriminated, 37% only by the fact that the others ‘sniffed’ out that they were gay or lesbian. Over 10% were physically harassed, over 22% were verbally harassed and about 31% had to abandon or were fired from their jobs due to discrimination.” If a homosexual can do just as much work or produce the same output and put in as much input as a heterosexual, what should it matter who they like or love? Some might argue the fact that having a homosexual in the workplace could be distracting, though I could agree with this statement to a degree. That could be if the certain homosexual is just being all out flamboyant with their lifestyle, but we can not judge all homosexuals just because of one or two people. This situation could be with anyone though because a heterosexual can also be distracting to others whether they choose to like the other sex or not. For instance in several people’s eyes a homosexual being flamboyant is just like a heterosexual being flamboyant, not that big of a deal, it can go both ways. To a heterosexual who has a problem with this, if a homosexual came in talking about his/her sex life or personal life it would probably bother them; but sometimes if not most it is the same for homosexuals, if a heterosexual were to come in and talk about his/her personal and/or sex life then they could be bothered. So just because one chooses to love the same sex does not make them incapable of doing the same work. Another argument that some might use to justify the discrimination in the workplace would be the company’s “image.” They believe that having a homosexual as an employee would hurt the company’s image. A company supervisor that I recently interview by the name of Mark Williams works at a computer company in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. I recently asked him how does he feel about having homosexuals in the workplace and he disagrees with the idea 100%. I asked Mr. Williams why and he stated “Why would I want a ‘gay’ person to represent my company? That’s like giving a baby a script for a movie and expecting them to know it the next day.” Mr. Williams compared having a homosexual as an employee to a baby trying to read a script. No where in my eyes do I see that as that could even be a comparison. What happens if you do not that the person is a homosexual then what would happen? They would still be representing you the same way. Back to the point I was making earlier, homosexuals are just as capable of representing a company and working just like heterosexuals, so why discriminate?3
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Another argument that I would like to address would be the factors that can contribute to a person being a homosexual. People believe that a homosexual just wakes up one day and decide that they would like the same sex, but that is not the case. The whole idea about being “born gay” is possible. Yes some people can and will choose how they will live their lifestyle but it is also possible to be born gay. My best friend’s little brother was, as you say, born gay. From the time that he took his first step he would play in his sister’s make-up and play dress up in her clothes. He would get extremely frustrated and upset when he was made to put on his own clothes, which were boy clothes. Some people are just not comfortable in their own body, and it is possible to know that from the time that you are born. This argument could go hand in hand with the factors that can contribute to a person being homosexual. After interviewing several people about this subject most seem to believe that not many factors can make a difference, I beg to differ. Because some everyday situations can be the cause, for example males growing up with no father figure. I have a friend named Anthony and Anthony never knew his father. Anthony had three sisters and his mother and that’s all he had. He always grew up around the woman figure. Anthony was so accustomed to this lifestyle because that’s how he grew up his whole life. He never had a father figure to teach him how to play basketball or play football, and his mother could not teach him because that’s not how she lived her life, around sports. He grew up learning how to cook, clean, and other feminine qualities. Many might just think why cant he go out and find him some guys friends, some might even be mad because his mother did not provide a father figure or conduct masculine things, but its not easy raising a boy and three daughters so they had to do the best they could. Anthony is a homosexual because that is what he is most comfortable with, his feminine side, the way he grew up. The other factors that would/could contribute would be how men and women are perceived in that person’s life. So don’t judge one homosexual because the other, that’s unfair. Everyone is equal and yes though some do wake up and decide they want to be homosexual because of their friend, or a they think it is a fad or whatever they case may be not all are like that. Just like heterosexuals see each other with equal rights homosexuals should be treated the same way.
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Another argument that I would like to address would be the factors that can contribute to a person being a homosexual. People believe that a homosexual just wakes up one day and decide that they would like the same sex, but that is not the case. The whole idea about being “born gay” is possible. Yes some people can and will choose how they will live their lifestyle but it is also possible to be born gay. My best friend’s little brother was, as you say, born gay. From the time that he took his first step he would play in his sister’s make-up and play dress up in her clothes. He would get extremely frustrated and upset when he was made to put on his own clothes, which were boy clothes. Some people are just not comfortable in their own body, and it is possible to know that from the time that you are born. This argument could go hand in hand with the factors that can contribute to a person being homosexual. After interviewing several people about this subject most seem to believe that not many factors can make a difference, I beg to differ. Because some everyday situations can be the cause, for example males growing up with no father figure. I have a friend named Anthony and Anthony never knew his father. Anthony had three sisters and his mother and that’s all he had. He always grew up around the woman figure. Anthony was so accustomed to this lifestyle because that’s how he grew up his whole life. He never had a father figure to teach him how to play basketball or play football, and his mother could not teach him because that’s not how she lived her life, around sports. He grew up learning how to cook, clean, and other feminine qualities. Many might just think why cant he go out and find him some guys friends, some might even be mad because his mother did not provide a father figure or conduct masculine things, but its not easy raising a boy and three daughters so they had to do the best they could. Anthony is a homosexual because that is what he is most comfortable with, his feminine side, the way he grew up. The other factors that would/could contribute would be how men and women are perceived in that person’s life. So don’t judge one homosexual because the other, that’s unfair. Everyone is equal and yes though some do wake up and decide they want to be homosexual because of their friend, or a they think it is a fad or whatever they case may be not all are like that. Just like heterosexuals see each other with equal rights homosexuals should be treated the same way.
you paper sounds really good but i think you are tryin to put too much information in one pargraph so i reccomend you break them up
Try to find a way to hook the reader more, throw something in there that will make the reader want to stay around an read the entire thing.
I like the way your paper is written, you make alot of good points. I do not agree with your argument but everyone is enititled to their own opinion right? But I also feel that you have too much reseach, I think you can get your point across without it being so long.
A lot of religious people will try to attack what you said, “What is really the big difference?” the bible.
Homo’s and Hetero’s are not equal. To judge is when you know it is the truth, but you cannot judge if it is an assumption.
Make sure after a quote, you put who or where you got it from.
I would explain more on being born gay.
You really need to cite the information you use like in the quotes. Also it seems like one of your paragraphs is full of information, you might want to lessen it because it more of what someone else is saying but not your own opinion. Overall it is a really good paper.