Prop 8.
I know a lot of people have been talking about it lately, but it's all I can think about lately. I'm not gay or considering marriage at this point in time, and yet I'm finding myself to be truly outraged by the fact that 51% of Californians voted to eliminate rights from their fellow citizens.

I just don't understand why certain religions have to impose THEIR morals onto someone else and decide for THEM on how they live their life. I'm aware that homosexuality is not okay in the Bible... but you know what? Slavery is alright. Discrimination is NEVER right, no matter who or what you believe in. As an American, believe in equality or else we have nothing to believe in anymore. We are no longer united as a country, and divided we fall.

Schools and gay marriage. Well, I'm a senior in high school and I have never been taught a thing about gay or straight marriage besides it's for "two people who love each other very much." And living in California and our modern society, meeting a gay person is not that rare. We're teaching the future of America to discriminate and be intolerant of others. I thought we got rid of most discrimination a long time ago... and we have more pressing issues like our plunging economy to be fixed. Why is America regressing?

I won't say that people who believe that homosexuality is wrong are ignorant, because that's what they believe and they have all the rights in the world to believe that. But can they believe it's wrong and still be tolerant? Sure. I think smoking weed is wrong but I don't try to eliminate the rights of someone who chooses to do so.

I just find it strange that Barack Obama, an African-American man whose race we formerly enslaved, was overwhelmingly elected as President of the United States and yet Californians passed a proposition that made gays into second-class citizens.