LGBTQ Discrimination 49 People dead and 53 wounded. That information was probably on 90% of people's T.V.s in 2016. The problem is that so many people are against the LGBTQ community. Therefore they do stupid things like the Orlando shooting. All the LGBTQ community can do is keep going to congress to get same-sex marriage legalized and their pride parades. People need to accept the LGBTQ community so they aren't rejected from their religion, they don't have to live in fear of being shot, and security will help during their beautiful events. Some of the LGBTQ community can't or don't tell anyone because of what religion they are. If you have read the Bible does it say that to be part of the LGBTQ community is to commit a sin? I don't think so! The guy who shot all of those people was a muslim, so maybe he was doing it out of religion, but that doesn't make it okay. But because of that people are holding all muslims responsible. What most don't know is that there are LGBTQ muslims and they want revenge but also too pay their respects, so holding muslims responsible isn't fair. One particular muslim named Qais Munhazim decided to create a religious pride parade. Almost all of the LGBTQ people in Minnesota walked. Still after that brave action there are still muslims that look down on the LGBTQ community, even if it is their own family, because they are different. The Orlando shootings took many lives but the LGBTQ community still try to stand tall. But most are now hiding from the haters. The pride parades now have a section for the people who want to have pictures or memories of the people who got killed by the gay nightclub shooting. David Cordona said, “the lesbian, gay ,bisexual, transgender, and queer community still have a long way to go before being fully accepted by society.” The Portland pride parade was normally filled with happy faces and floats in 2016 there were floats in black and when those went by many went into tears. The parade was still a time to celebrate so when the rain started the cheers only got louder. The shootings did take it's toll but the LGBTQ community only got bigger and braver. After the Orlando shooting, the organizers of the pride parades started meeting with police to get more security. You could see a police car at every corner and “police were wishing people ‘Happy Pride’ it was an unusual sight”Amy Ariel of St. Paul stated. At the past pride parades police weren't there and so sometimes people got hurt. “Safety is always a top priority” Steve Romero said. The Orlando shooting did cause some good to happen. The police also walked in the parade and talked to people. From now on parades will have security. Death, destruction, and misery. These three things have affected millions of families and it is all because people are discriminating against the LGBTQ community. The LGBTQ community is all of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer, or questioning, people out there. The LGBTQ community has been discriminated against for years and it is time to stop. When someone hears that something is being discriminated against, they normally think that it is about rights, but with this community it is far more. People are attacking these people at places that they are supposed to be safe. That brings up the terrorism that has been happening by cynic people. The Orlando shooting two years ago proved that people will actually try to kill people if they are part of this community. The Westboro baptist church was a christian group that threatened a hotel that was hosting a same-sex marriage. Say that someone was looking in the Bible to see if it says that to be part of the LGBTQ community is to commit a sin. That person will not find anything because the bible says nothing about that. There are no laws that say that people can be rude to these people.“Title VII is silent: No matter how many times you read Title VII, you will not find the words "sexual orientation," "gender identity" or any other terms that expressly include LGBTQ individuals”(Hyman, Jon). Then with the fact that some religions had asked if there could be special laws so they could discriminate. President Trump had tried to pass a law to make it so that transgender people can't be in the military, and that was a bad idea, because a lot of people would try to get him out of the president position. Then the matter of that no one has really tried to make a law to protect them. This is the first thing that should happen. We should also try to convince the people that are using religion to discriminate against them that they can't do that and that the bible doesn't even say anything about the LGBTQ community. The police need to stop being rude and not caring and actually do their job and protect them. “The truth is that the legalisation of gay marriage will lead to the legalisation of gay marriage.”(Wakefield) Some people think that if gay marriage is legalisation of gay marriage will lead to the legalisation of besteality and incest but like Jason Wakefield said it will only lead to the legalization of gay marriage. People should be supporting them not hurt them. Some think that “we need to protect marriage.”(Wakefield) But, “The word “protect” implies that gay people are a threat to the institution of marriage. To imply that including same-sex couples within the definition of marriage will somehow be detrimental or even destructive for the institution is to suggest gay people must be inherently poisonous. It also implies a nefarious gay mafia that is out to wreck marriage for straight people. Naturally if such a mafia existed I would be bound by a code of honour to deny its existence. However, it doesn’t exist.”(Wakefield) Marriage is a beautiful thing, it combines a party with the celebration of two people and cake! “Marriage has always been a bond between one man and one woman.”(Wakefield) This statement would be true in the 1900’s but not anymore. “This declaration ignores the legally married gay couples in Canada, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Belgium, Netherlands, and South Africa. It conveniently forgets the 48 countries where polygamy is still practised. It also omits from history the married gay couples of ancient China and Rome, Mormon polygamy, and the ancient Egyptians who could marry their sisters. The assertion is obviously false.”(Wakefield) “Marriage has always been a bond between one man and one woman. This declaration ignores the legally married gay couples in Canada, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Belgium, Netherlands, and South Africa. It conveniently forgets the 48 countries where polygamy is still practised. It also omits from history the married gay couples of ancient China and Rome, Mormon polygamy, and the ancient Egyptians who could marry their sisters. The assertion is obviously false.”(Wakefield) “Gay marriage will confuse gender roles. This hinges on the idea that gender roles are or should be fixed, as dictated by scripture, most often cited for the sake of healthy child development. The love and care homosexual couples routinely provide children are, it would seem, irrelevant. Perhaps it would help to reiterate that gay people are not confused about gender, they are just gay. It is the churches who are deeply confused about gender and sexuality. I would ask them to stop focusing on my genitals, and start paying attention to my humanity”(Wakefield) “Gay people cannot have children and so should not be allowed to marry.”The Archbishop of York John Sentamu used a barely disguised version of this argument in a piece for the Guardian when he referred to “the complementary nature of men and women”. He is insinuating, of course, that homosexual relationships are not complementary by nature because they cannot produce offspring, and therefore they are unnatural and undeserving of the word “marriage”.May I refer him to the elderly or infertile straight couples who cannot produce children? If a complementary relationship hinges on procreative sex, are these relationships unnatural? Should they be allowed to marry?”(Wakefield) “But studies have shown heterosexual parents are better for children. No, they have not. Dozens of studies have shown gay people to be entirely capable of raising children. While it is true that many reputable studies have shown two-parent families tend to be most beneficial, the gender of the parents has never been shown to matter.The studies cited by actively homophobic organisations like the Coalition for Marriage were funded by anti-gay organisations, or have basic methodology flaws – for example, they would compare married straight couples with unwed gay couples, or they would take a person who may have had a single curious experience with the same sex and define them as exclusively homosexual. Sometimes, the even more disingenuous will reference studies which do not even acknowledge gay parents. Same-sex parents are simply presumed by biased researchers to be equivalent to single parents and step-parents, and therefore use the data interchangeably, which as anyone with an ounce of scientific literacy knows is not the way such studies work.Arguments based on “traditional family” will always be insulting, not just to the healthy, well-adjusted children of gay couples, but to the children raised by single parents, step-parents, grandparents, godparents, foster parents, and siblings.”(Wakefield) “Public opinion polls show most people are against gay marriage.”A petition by the Coalition for Marriage claimed to have 600,000 signatures in opposition to gay marriage in the UK. It should come as no surprise that the directors of the organisation are religious and manipulation of the results was easy. A single person could submit their signature online multiple times providing they used different email addresses (which were not verified). Programs that allow for anonymity of IP addresses also enabled anyone around the world to add their signature.The majority of UK polls demonstrate a majority in favour of gay marriage. These include a 2004 Gallup poll, a 2008 ICM Research poll, a 2009 Populus poll, a 2010 Angus Reid poll, a 2010 Scottish Social Attitudes survey, a 2011 Angus Reid Public Opinion survey, and a 2012 YouGov survey. Even if most people were against gay marriage, which polls consistently show is not the case, majority will is no justification for the exclusion of a minority.”(Wakefield) “Gay marriage is immoral.” If there is something immoral about legally acknowledging the love between two consenting adults, it would help the argument to state precisely what that is. “God says so” is not an argument. And this article, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, is the real “grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right”.(Wakefield) “Gay people should not be allowed to marry because they are more likely to be promiscuous.” This claim is based on the degrading preconception that gay people do not feel true love and just have sex with as many people as possible. It is also beside the point - straight couples are not precluded from marriage on the basis they may be unfaithful, so why should gay people?”(Wakefield) This is why we need to accept and embrace the LGBTQ community, so they aren't outcast in religion, so they don't have to worry about being shot, and so security will be at their beautiful events. It would make everyone happy. They have already gotten same-sex marriage legalized. Stand up for LGBTQ pride. Now consider accepting them. This is proof that the LGBTQ community has been discriminarted. Sometimes people just need a little push to do the right thing. 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