Why are We Behind?

America has always prided itself in being home of the free and the brave, but how is that that we are now behind in what seems like a race for what I consider a human right. What right, well the right to love and marry who you wish. Like I stated in the previous blog, I was raised in a pretty conservative home with parents who are against the gay rights movement but I on the other hand (a heterosexual) think that it should be an inalienable right to marry whoever you want. 

According to this The New York Times   article many Latin American countries around the world are in favor with the gay rights movements, which shocks a lot of people considering the tight religious and traditional values they hold. Political leaders are becoming heroes to their people for making these changes to their constitutions and even overlooking the disapproval of high end religious leaders such as today's pope! I definitely think that these countries have it right considering all that we as Americans have gone though, even in the past two hundred years. The article goes to say that the Mexican ruling was based on a decision on a American interracial marriage case, and noted that "was relevant because the historical disadvantages that homosexuals have suffered create an analogy with the discrimination that interracial couples endured in another era." One word, absolutely!

Slavery, women's rights, all examples of when people do not accept people. Maybe after people start seeing this, they may see that America is maybe losing its place as the "it" county to live in, and perhaps we can move towards keeping, or even regaining that title. Until then this is Political Me.