First off are my thoughts on abortion. I am strongly against it. But here's the thing. Unfortunately, there are people out there who participate in its execution for whatever reason. If I had to pick someone to take a stand against on this issue, it would be the doctors who do it. Not only do many of them do it just for the money, but I've heard of doctors who suggest abortions to women who would never have considered it and did not give any indication that it was an option for them. (I have a lot of things against doctors, by the way, but we can save that for another day.) As for the women who get abortions, yes, there are some who just use it as a way out of their inconvenience. However, I don't think that's the majority of them. I think most of them feel like it's their only option, and there are some whose parents (or boyfriends, etc.) force them to do it (shouldn't that be illegal?!!). My thought is that most of the people who are for abortion are those who have never had unplanned pregnancies personally. I think those who deal with unplanned pregnancies should be educated about their options and offered support because there are a lot of young women who get abortions and feel horrible about it or who see abortion as a better alternative than adoption (because they wouldn't know whom their babies were going to live with for the rest of their lives).
But now to the issue: whether or not to keep abortion legal. The thing is that abortion has been legal for several years now. Before it was legal, people were doing it anyway, and it was done in very unsafe ways. Abortions nowadays are safer for women than they were before, but there are still women who die from infections resulting from them. So should we go back to the old ways and have many more women die from improperly done abortions? If we don't want one person to die, we definitely shouldn't want it to happen to two.
Now on to the next topic--gay marriage. I'm also against this because my belief is that homosexual activity is wrong. But you can't change people's thoughts and morality by making them illegal. It's like if the government made church congregation illegal. There would still be Christians. There won't be any more gay people just because we make it legal for them to get married, and there won't be any fewer if this issue is put to rest by making it illegal all over the country.
But here's the legal issue I'm concerned about. If gay marriage is legalized, will the government force churches to hold wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples? Now comes in the issue of separation of church and state. People bring that up when there's talk about wanting gay marriage to be illegal because, according to the major religions, homosexual activity is wrong. People that are for gay marriage say that the church can't force its morality on the government because the two entities are separate. But it works the other way too. According to separation of church and state, if the government decides to follow that rule, it cannot make it illegal for a church to turn down gay couples who want to get married. But I do think that the government will hold on to that rule and will not force churches to marry gay couples. Besides, there's the courthouse, there are nonreligious weddings, and there are even churches who would do it.
So the moral of the story is that if you're against these two issues, you need to be more concerned about the people than you are the law. People need to be loved more than anything else. And once love is established there comes education. People will make their own decisions. It's not your job to make them to it. It's just your job to try to help them get there. Lovingly. Gently. Without anger.
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