Thoreau, after spending a night in jail and seeing the truth hidden behind the propaganda of the majority, became convinced that he could no longer accept his government's behavior of passing laws that benefit the majority with degrading the minority. It's quite ironic that by the government imprisoning Thoreau he became freer then ever before. He was able to see how the government turned peaceably inclined men into controllable machines. Thoreau saw how the government dealt with its citizens as only a body, while completely disregarding the sense, intellect, and moral beliefs of its people.

In his essay "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau stated that "a government ruled by majority in all cases cannot be based on justice." He further believed that "under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also prison." This point made by Thoreau can be seen as the truth throughout history. A just man never sits by

Clearly the laws set against homosexuals are morally wrong and unjust. Because of these laws, countless beatings and deaths, financial loss, and overall degrading of the human personality have occurred. As King once said, "we have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people." We cannot stand in the shadows letting the majority degrade and damage the personality of the minority. Instead we must come together and voice our opinions as one. Only together will we be able to open the eyes of the majority and show them what must happen in order to completely end segregation. As with any matter in life we have a choice to stand with the morally right or wrong. Where do you stand?

quietly watching the majority degrade the minority to suit their own immoral purposes.

The majority of Americans today oppose same-sex marriage and adoption by gay couples, insisting that sexual orientation "can be changed through will power, therapy, or religious convictions." But mainstream medical and psychiatric professional organizations have concluded that sexual orientation is innate and cannot be changed, and have strongly opposed attempts to "convert" gay people to heterosexuality as misguided and harmful.

As for the affects of all this on gay people its even worse. It's estimated that somewhere between six and ten percent of the United States population is gay. Yet as much as thirty percent of teenage suicides are those of homosexuals. In 1997, my sister was one of those victims, and although my parents deeply mourn her loss, they still insist that she would have been saved had she continued therapy to convert her into being heterosexual. But the truth is had they loved her and supported her sexual orientation instead

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