Let’s face it, everyone knows it but no one ever talks about it; white people are the best. They are what people should be. They have better morals, better values, and simply are, all around better people. Don’t believe me? Let’s make a list.

• Only white people are what nature intended
• Only white people are stable
• Only white people are not sexual predators
• Only white people have real relationships
• Only white people are religious and can have a relationship with God
• Only white people can raise good families

White people deserve more, simply because they are more, they are whole people. It just makes sense that more opportunity should come their way, and that they should be allowed to do more, and to have more. Simply put, white people are the real people.

Enraged yet? Face red, and sitting ever closer to the screen as your eyes scan faster and faster at the absolute bull sh_t that you cannot believe just crossed your peepers and absorbed into your brain? Good, you should be. Now go back and replace the word ‘white,’ with the word ‘straight’ or ‘heterosexual’ (I went ahead and put them all in bold for you so it will be easier.) and refer back to the post ‘Adoption Website Under Fire.’ Think about the loving couple who passed and completed every stipulation mandated by the state of New York, in order to become adoptive parents, only to be told that they are not enough of a person, either separately, or collectively as a couple, to parent.

This is what makes discrimination so dangerous. This couple is not fighting only for the rights of gay and lesbian people, but for the rights of everyone. For once a company gets an ok from the government to discriminate against one group, it opens the door for them to do what I have done with the above list, replace the name of whom they have chosen to discriminate against with the name of another 'unacceptable' group.  Once it is acceptable for all gay and lesbian people to be told they cannot parent, society will inevitably choose yet another group of people that they do not fully understand, to be deemed unsuitable people.

It is no more right to say that all homosexual people are bad, or unsuitable to parent, than it is to say that all black people are ghetto, all white people are superior, all blondes are stupid, or all trans-racial families are wrong. Not one of those statements is true, yet they are all damaging beliefs, and prejudices that many in America hold. Is it their right, living in America, to hold these beliefs? Yes. Is it their right to go against state law and run business’s based on these beliefs? No. Adoption Media, or the owners I should say, are more than welcome to hate homosexuals in their personal life; they have the freedom, as Americans, to do so. But just because they personally don’t like homosexuals, does not mean that they can go against state law and block homosexuals from doing business with their company. The state of New York says that the couple is eligible to adopt, the owners of Adoption Media do not have the right for their personal beliefs, to infringe upon the legal rights of others.

This first time Adoption Media was sued for discrimination, they were given the option by the government of allowing all people who complied with the laws of the state and were eligible to adopt; the right of posting a profile on their website, or none of the eligible people in the state. The company chose none, and dropped doing business in the state. New York too apparently, has anti- discrimination laws, and if Adoption Media wishes to do business in their state, then just like in California, they should accept everyone who meets the requirements of the law, or get to steppin’. If New York says that a gay couple is eligible to adopt, then Adoption Media needs to let them post a profile, or lose yet another state.

Otherwise, it is only a matter of time before we see less and less people who are eligible to adopt, or marry, or own a home, the list could go on indefinitely. Once it is all right to exclude one group of people from something, simply for being who, or how, they were born, it opens the door to begin doing it do other groups of people as well. Suddenly it becomes just fine to exclude people who are too fat, too tall, too religious, not religious enough, too dark, racially mixed, and so forth.

There is no superior race, religion, sexual preference, or gender. We are all just people.  Once we begin pointing fingers at who is less of a person, it is only a matter of time before fingers begin to be pointed at us.

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