Every human being deserves love

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Whether you’re so pale you’re pink like me, or you’re turquoise like a Smurf, it doesn’t matter if you love someone of the same gender or someone of the opposite; you’re entitled to the love only Hollywood can portray. We all know what I am talking about: sappy, corny and really hot. The other two columns I have written for this paper have been politically based and very standoffish; this time that all can be pushed to the side for a minute. Let’s talk about love, the fuel of the human cycle.

“When everything’s made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am…” It’s one of the most recognizable lines from a song ever, if not the most (from “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls). Why mention this song? Besides the fact that I am a cheesy ‘90s baby who loved “City of Angels” with Nicholas Cage as a kid, this line embodies love so thoroughly and so completely it’s hard to overlook when discussing this topic. It describes an emotion, not a moral standard, pure and simple.

What more could a person ask for than a companion on the road of life, a witness to each trial and triumph in our short life? We aren’t meant to go unseen. It’s not just this song; every genre of music puts its best foot forward because love is the most common topic, though the topic of hard core partying is catching up. But why music and why love? Is there a reason to be writing an entire article on romance and lust and passion? If you watch the news, you know there is.

Laws on love are apparently where we are in humanity now. When did we come to this? Granted, before now there was no need for laws about what was supposedly “right” in many countries because people who were different than the majority hid themselves for fear that they would be exiled and forgotten. Our sense of beauty and appreciation for the rarity that is love is getting lost in our worry of what is morally right. But what isn’t morally right about real love? So, maybe you don’t want to see two people of the same sex kissing and holding hands, but why not look away instead? Why is there a need to persecute and believe that your brand of relationship has superiority?

There’s no way to hide behind a Christian God on this one either, so before this becomes a religious argument, let’s nip that in the bud. This is about a real issue in the world where we are shaming our fellow brothers and sisters for who they fall in love with.

Some of the best Catholics I have ever known are homosexual and they are the kindest, most giving people I have met. Their only sin was in human eyes, with other people assuming that they loved in a way that was supposedly not right.

News flash: If there is a God who is all-powerful and all-knowing, do you think he’s ever really surprised that someone is gay? You don’t “come out” to God and it doesn’t seem logical that he would hate something that he created and knows so thoroughly.

What about Jesus? No to standing behind him on this one, as there is nowhere in the Bible that says Jesus condemned anyone for who they felt was their soul mate. In fact, the best quote you can get from Jesus is “Don’t point out the splinter in your neighbor’s eye where there is a plank in your own!”

This isn’t an article to change your opinion even if it may seem that way, and it almost feels like it should on my end. This piece is to remind about and highlight the idea of what love is supposed to mean: it’s an innocent, shapeless, formless soul that lives in us all. Your soul is as unique as your fingerprints are, and so is your love.

I’m not standing on a soapbox for you to hear; that’s not important. I just feel like in the midst of all these legal battles it should be asked, who are we to say no to the one thing that saves lives and gives strength? Who died and gave us the ability to say no to passion and yes to bans on rights?

Remember The Beatles: “Love is all you need”. Keep that in mind the next time the topic comes up.