An
article in Time Magazine by blogger and author Andrew Sullivan talks about “Why
the M Word Matters to Me.” Sullivan grew up in a traditional home Catholic,
conservative, and middle class. His life was relatively simple: education,
work, family, and aim high in life even though his parents hadn’t gone to
college. He believed that marriage was
very important more important than graduation from college, a first day of
work, or even his first home. Sullivan never had the idea of what homosexuality
was. Growing up he didn’t have the same feelings for girls the way his friends
had. Sullivan’s emotional bonds to other
boys were one-sided; each time he felt himself falling in love, they sensed it
and pushed it away. The love he had inside him was not the type of love he grew
up to know; by his parents and the way of the Catholics. Sullivan believes that
everyone should be equal to marriage, regardless of sexual orientation.
Growing up in a Catholic household like Sullivan did, I can
understand the expectations that he has to live up to. I was raised in the
Catholic environment; I was baptized, made my first communion, and conformation.
The Catholic religion is very strict with their rules. For example, homosexuality
is looked down on as being a sin.
I don’t fully agree with Sullivan about how marriage is
more important than graduating from a college, or your first house. I believe
those are just as important, but again everyone is entitled to his/her opinion.
I do however; agree that everyone should be entitled to equal rights to marriage
regardless of sexual orientation.
In today society even though others may not like seeing
it , but homosexual people are more comfortable than ever about showing their love for one another in public just as heterosexuals
show their affection.
Lesson to be learn is we often hide who we really are
to make other happy but in the end it is the individual who is happy.