As a college student I live in a very cultured environment, there are different races, religions, and sexual orientations all around me. I am hardly shocked when someone shares that they are gay, or that they are an atheist. If anything I support the LGBTQ more than I stand up for straight people. I'm far from the average Christian female, I'm for same sex marriage and I don't judge others for their choices like many "good" Christians tend to do.
While I was sitting in one of my three diversity classes today we were talking about "heterosexual privilege." Basically heterosexual privilege is the rights heterosexuals come by naturally, but things that homosexual couples get judged on often. As an example, straight couples rarely have trouble adopting or getting a job because of their sexuality. For some reason Gay's have a much more difficult time obtaining the same jobs, and adopting a child who needs a home/family due to the way they identify sexually.
Now this is what PISSES ME OFF!!! I have a hard time understanding how someone could be passed over as a teacher because they are gay when they have the same, if not better, qualifications as other teachers who have obtained the same degrees and now the teaching jobs. The reason many homosexuals get passed over is because society has the view that if a women identifies as a lesbian she will be likely to molest little girls, and the same goes for gay males and little boys.. This is absolutely absurd and IGNORANT!!! Anyone has the ability to be a pedophile, even a straight male who is married. The idea that ones sexual identity would affect how they can function as a professional is one of the most ignorant things anyone could ever assume.
A majority of the time I hear of an issue between a student and a teacher it is almost always a heterosexual experience. There may be some who are homosexual relationships, but the adult committing the crime may have identified as straight. The same goes for when people assume that someone who is gay is more likely to hit on them. For example, if a man came in contact with a gay man, the straight man claims he is afraid of being hit on. Truth is, just because they are gay does not mean they are out for every living breathing male. I'm a straight female, it doesn't mean I am hitting on/flirting with every guy I come in contact with. The same goes for anyone in the LGBTQ community. Trust me, they probably aren't hitting on you, they have standards, and if you assume they want you I can guarantee they don't... you aren't their type. GET OVER YOURSELF.
Plenty of LGBTQ couples are just as fitted as any other family on the block, yet they are unable to foster children or adopt. There are cases when children are removed from the home due to the homosexuality of the parents; even if the child is 100% taken care of, and not abused or neglected. I find this frustrating because there are families who have more kids in order to receive tax deductions/more welfare money, yet they get to keep their child.
No child should sit in a foster home when there are willing couples who can adopt them as their own. No child should be left in a orphanage when there are families that can take those children in, and treat them just as well as a heterosexual couple who can bear their own children.
I told my boyfriend if we ever decided to have a child, after we get married, and we were unable to conceive that I have no problem adopting. I do have one stipulation, if I do adopt (or put a child up for adoption) I will only do so with an agency who works with gay couples. If I was single and wanted to use a sperm bank in order to have a child, I would only do so for a company who provides their product to lesbian couples. If someone is unable to use these agencies then I should not use them; I am equal to someone who identifies as homosexual, and they are equal to me.
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