Gay Rights: All Men Are Created Equal

Gay rights have been an issue for many years now. Many People believe they should have their rights and many people believe they should not have their rights. Gays need their rights because they are like every other human being; gays have two legs, two arms, two eyes, etc. The only difference about gays is their interests, but other than that they are like every other person. What happened to “All Men Are Created Equal”? This is stated in the constitution. Gays have been around for a very long time, and they’re not going anywhere any time soon.

Gays have been around for a very long time, they have always been here and they will always be here no matter what. According to Aldrich’s study, “’homosexuality’ as a term did not emerge until the 19th century” (14). Homosexuality may not have emerged until the 19th

century but around 2400 BCE, during the 5th dynasty in Egypt, two men known as Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum were said to have a relationship of some kind.

In 1964 an archeologist discovered an unexplored tomb which was the burial site of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. There were many carvings on the wall of the two men together doing different activities like fowling and fishing, and in the company of their wives and children. There was one that caught the archeologists’ eye which was one of the two men staring into each other’s eyes and holding each other. No one is sure whether they had an intimate relationship or if they simply just had a very close friendship and wanted to continue their friendship in the afterlife. “One historian, Greg Reeder, points out that the pose of the two men gazing into each other’s eyes was uncommon in the iconography of the time; that their embrace is particularly intimate; and that the gestures the two men use follow the artistic convention that generally unite a husband and wife” (Aldrich 14). There could be a chance Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum did have an intimate relationship,

but then again maybe not and it was simply just a friendship. In the Bible gays aren’t even accepted, as stated in a revision of the Living Bible, “If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act. They must both be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense" (NLT). It was a “desitable” sin for a man to have sex with another man as with other women. So what if another man is with another man or a woman with another woman, it does not have an effect on another person. People have their opinions, they’re opinions just aren’t as important when it comes to gay rights.
Times are changing and gays have become more comfortable with showing who they really are.
Everyone has their rights and freedom, but do they really? Gays have the right to get married, but in the United States not all states have legalized gay marriage. Only 33 states out of 50 states have legalized gay marriage leaving 17 states that have not legalized gay marriage. Marriage may have been legalized in some states but there are still rights gays do not have.