A lot has been said lately about rights without any consideration as to what is right.
The “rights” of humans on this planet has been given so much attention it is obvious man is just moving around in circles. This is due to the simple reason that where one person’s rights end is where the next person’s begin.
All over the world we have civil rights, constitutional rights, child’s rights, women’s rights, human rights, animal rights. Is anyone missing? Men’s rights? No such thing. Men already have ALL the rights embedded in their genes they don’t need advocates. In fact they happen to be the ones dishing up all the rights and making us all feel worthy of being heard.
Talking of rights did I mention the one making waves now? Gay rights?
Gone are the days that you can describe your child as gay with a smile on your face. Then, Gay was synonymous with happiness. I am gay, we’re all gay meant we are all of us happy.
Not so today.
The word gay has taken on a new meaning. To be gay now means to be homosexual. The change of meaning to me is the beginning of the infringement on my rights. I don’t think it’s fair that people give me an odd look when I say “I am gay today” just because some people hijacked the word and gave it their own meaning and our learned friends decided to accord them the rights to do so.
While still reeling from the infringement on my rights to use the word having in mind it’s original meaning, another of my rights’ being infringed! Now I am being forced to accept something which I only tolerated. There’s a big difference between tolerating and accepting as right. I believe I have a right to tell my child “I don’t want to see you hanging out with so and so”, for whatever reason I have. It could be because the person is not of good character and I don’t want the person’s character flaw to rub off on my son. It could also be because I know the person is homosexual and I don’t want my son to wake up tomorrow and tell me I gave birth to him with an inborn tendency to be homosexual.
Anyone who wants to be gay can go ahead and do so for all I care, as far as the person was not birthed by me. And I would definitely not say I won’t talk to you because you chose to be something I view to be wrong outright. But there is a limit to the kind of acquaintanceship I would form with a homosexual.
I believe that I have RIGHTS to choose who I do business with, who I work for, etc.And it is a huge infringement on my rights if I am prosecuted for saying I don’t like what you are doing.
Your rights end where my rights begin.
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