Shh! To Your Sexual Preference
A human that expresses their sexual preference should not be discriminated against.
It is horrifying that after so many wars and so many injustices around the world, we are still hurting our own human race in a so called “Free Country.” A country taken away from Natives, to begin with, that was changed and recreated by many immigrants. A country that gave birth to many heroes who fought and still fight for racial, social, and sexual freedom. We live in a country that defends other countries from their own enemies, but yet we are here fighting and dehumanizing each other in the country of the free. Which brings the question of freedom, the freedom for what or for whom?
We are not only facing the reality of a future president, Donald J. Trump, that dehumanizes anyone that is not himself, but now the state of Louisiana wants to use their “power” to harm the LGBT community.
The LGBT, which stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community, are still facing discrimination in the corporate world. The State of Louisiana is rejecting state employee health contracts because of LGBT protections. This means that having health care depends on one’s gender. How can this be, how can people’s health be at risk because of their sexual preference? This is inhumane this is not freedom or protection for a citizen that this country advertises around the world. They already get fired for their sexual preference and now this happens. Is this forcing these victims to be silent about whom they love, to be silent about their happiness, about who they are as human? If you don’t say or express who you are, then you deserve protection and benefits? This is not freedom for all, this is freedom for those oppressors, for those with power (government), those have the freedom to smash any human being. This community has come far, first by expressing themselves, fighting for a marriage, fighting for equal rights, and respect, now their health is at risk. This is intolerable.
Michel Foucault, a French philosopher and author of The History of Sexuality, stated, “If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality… it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost: nothing less than a transgression of laws, a lifting of prohibitions, an irruption of speech, a reinstating of pleasure within reality, and a whole new economy in the mechanisms of power will be required… conditioned by politics.” “We Other Victorians” and “The Repressive Hypothesis”
He believed that government, scientist, and the church reacted to a person’s sexual preference. The government had concerns because it affects population growth, the scientists included doctors, psychologists, and other that studied the behavior and mental ability on a homosexual. The church considers it a sin and not God’s creation to marry a couple of the same sex. If a same sex couple wants to make a life together it is a sin, it is not socially acceptable. We will probably never be liberated from them.
They are human no matter what their sexual preferences are. They are created by the same higher power as heterosexuals are. They have feelings, they are fighters, they want to live happy, we are all the same species. Who they love or who they want to sleep with should not be a reason to consider them less important or unworthy of a happy life. We should not dehumanize anyone because of what they feel for others. We should not dehumanize them. Equal rights must include sexual freedom without having to hush what our preferences are.
This repression will be a continuous fight between the government, scientists and the church, but it does not mean that we will not continue to fight for the sexual freedom. We need to be united as one human race that we are. We will not hush!
