Moral or Immoral

Prompt: Human Rights V. Majority Rule

The Declaration of Independence says “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. Human rights refer to “the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, which often are held to include the right to life, liberty, freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law.” These unalienable rights are considered to be gifts from the creator to the individual and cannot under any circumstances be surrendered or taken and all individual’s are considered to have unalienable rights. If we say the rights are inalienable, it does not mean they are absolute or can never be overridden. To say they are inalienable means that the holder cannot lose it temporarily or permanently by bad conduct or by voluntarily giving these rights up. Some may even say human rights are not inalienable, but they are hard to lose. Human rights were designed to protect all people everywhere from severe political, legal and social abuses.
Many times in our society when we discover that a person is a homosexual we find ourselves wanting to strip them of all rights. People have the right to do whatever makes them happy according to the rights we have been given, as long as these rights do not infringe upon the rights of any one else. I do believe that we have a moral obligation to raise future generations with clear cut, moral beliefs. According to the 19th chapter of Genesis, God destroyed the cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, because of their depravity (men lusting after men). Homosexuality is contrary to the natural laws of God. While in the Garden of Eden God said that it was not good for man to be alone, so he created Eve to be his help meet. As one of the elderly ladies at my church will tell you, God created Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve nor Eve and Eva.
If we then allow people to have the right to live as they desire, (as long as it is within the legal perimeter of our land), to continue to have freedom and to pursue happiness is their right. I believe that we should not discriminate against homosexuals or anyone but I believe certain positions should be even more closely monitored, especially if it is an occupation that involves young impressionable children. Instead of making homosexuals feel they have some type of disease or should be ostracized, we need to treat them with kindness and pray that they will come to the realization that homosexuality is wrong.