Monday 14 May 2012

Gay Rights are Human Rights

Over 80 countries around the world currently have sodomy laws or other laws criminalizing homosexuality. Apart from the essential violation of criminalizing this sexual conduct, these laws empower police and other authorities to abuse, harass, estort, imprison and execute people whose sexual orientation, gender identity or expression differs from the dominant "normal". eliminating sodomy laws is fundamental in passing on a universal vision of human rights and decriminalizing homosexuality.

It is everyones responsibility to understand that all human beings are born into this society with rights that give us power, they give us the ability to control the outcomes of our lives and we as a society are not giving this specific group of people the oppertunity to grasp these rights rendered to them at birth.

The sooner we as a society accept and promote LGBTQ rights, is the sooner we will be on the way to decriminalizing homosexuality and providing this group of people with the rights they deserve as       human beings.