Firefighters harassed

I have chosen that the topic for my research paper is to accept and embrace gays and lesbians and to allow same-sex marriages. This also links with the hope that Proposition 8 will be overturned. In this new article I found titled, Jury: SD firefighters were harassed in gay parade, the discrimination of gays continues. It is almost impossible to say that gays and lesbians will be accepted by everyone. Regardless of the changes that may come over the decades, there will still be people who are "homophobic". If not accepted, however, they should not be taunted. This article touches upon an event where four firefighters were harassed in a gay parade. The firefighters got an attorney to plead for them but were not taken seriously. These firefighters did not volunteer to be in the parade, rather, were forced to participate. After expressing their distress and issue with what had occured, the head of the department apologized and stated that next time they would not force anyone to join the parade. The article closed with a quote from one of the captains of the fire department stating that "there was wrongdoing that day,. We all agreed on it. We felt that unless we stood up for ourselves, it would happen again."

This should not be tolerated. Yes, people can disagree with loving someone of the same sex. Yes, people can be disgusted by it. Yes, people can think that it is wrong. But no, those people do not have the right to subject gays and lesbians to harassment. People will think what they want but as the simple saying goes, "If you do not have something nice to say, then don't say it at all."