A Start on my Personal Philosophy

DISCLAIMER: I'm getting a little sick and just took some drowsy inducing medicine so please excuse all grammatical, spelling and syntactical errors. Trust me, it bothers me just as much as it bothers you...I'm an English major.

So one of the things that's obviously been in the news lately has been gay rights. This morning I was talking to my dad about this and because writing something out helps me firm up my opinions, I thought I would try expressing them here.

Let me start off by putting it out there that generally I am liberal. Although it can be argued otherwise, I consider myself to have been raised in a liberal fashion and I say this because my family has always fostered an extremely accepting stance towards others regardless of their race, sexual orientation or religion. It seems natural that we should accept other humans for what they are and judge people based only on whether or not they are good.

This becomes tricky because I start sounding like an absolutist but I really consider myself more of a moral relativist. This stems from the fact that I have accepted that as humans, we don't really know which religion or belief system is "right" and therefore should not be able to pass judgment on others who believe differently from us. It should be up to each individual to choose his own values and the only time that I have a problem with these choices is when they involve going out of a persons way to ridicule and point out the flaws in another person's decisions simply because they think differently.

 If you haven't guessed, I support gay marriage mostly becaus I don't think that it needs tone as big of a deal as people make it out to be. If you don't want to have a gay marriage, then marry a girl if you're a guy. And hey, if you're a guy who wants to marry another guy because you love them and care about them, who am I to tell you you're wrong?

I don't see it as the end of the world for some conservatives to continue to think that having a gay marriage is a ticket to hell, but I strongly believe that it isn't their place to jam that philosophy down everyone's throats. I think that by taking the time to just focus on ourselves and doing what we think is correct while giving others the breathing room to also focus on what they believe, we envelop ourselves in the true essence of what it means to be a tolerant melting pot of a country.

Love,

Ranjini