So I had to give a speech.
My speech was over gay marriage and gay rights.
My speech was awesome.
But I want to point out a couple of important things.
Yes I am for gay marriage.
I have a couple of gay and lesbian friends.
I got asked today was I straight because of my speech.
Just because I give a speech supporting them doesn't mean I am one.
White people supported Martin Luther King and they weren't black.
So straight people can support the LBGT community.
I don't like how gay marriage isn't allowed in all states and is illegal in some parts of the world.
I'm just going to talk about the USA though for right now.
Marriage isn't dealing with the church.
Seriously it's not. If it was it ended a long time ago.
Marriage is dealing with the law.
And it's against the constitution to deny and citizen the right to marry.
There is nothing wrong with what they are doing.
Americans just don't like the unknown and the different.
They don't like the people who don't come out all cookie cutter and shxt.
Americans don't like weird.
And gay people are considered weird even if they aren't.
They are just trying to be themselves.
Everyone knows that saying... Just be yourself .
How can you in such a judging society?
Americans are so judgmental.
I mean there is nothing wrong with them. Quit judging them just because of who they are or whom they love.
They are just trying to be themselves and not hide it.
They are showing the world their colors and the world is trying to make everything black and white.
We need the color...
We need the weird...
We need to be different...
Yeah this stopped being just about gay marriage and stuff. This is just for everyone.
That saying just be yourself and everything will be okay?
Yeah it's a LIE.
Because yeah you should be yourself, don't ever let people change you.
But the world may not accept who you are.
But don't give up.
Fight for what you want. Be who YOU are. Don't be someone you aren't.
Don't be an American cookie cutter.
When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay
‘Cause I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight
I told my mom tears rushing down my face
She’s like “Ben you've loved girls since before pre-k tripping,”
Yeah, I guess she had a point, didn’t she?
Bunch of stereotypes all in my head.
I remember doing the math like, “Yeah, I’m good at little league”
A preconceived idea of what it all meant
For those that liked the same sex
Had the characteristics
The right wing conservatives think it’s a decision
And you can be cured with some treatment and religion
Man made rewiring of a predisposition
Playing god, aw nah here we go
America the brave still fears what we don’t know
And god loves all his children, is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five-hundred years ago
I don’t know
And I can’t change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
I can't change
Even if I try
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
Have you read the YouTube comments lately
"Man, that’s gay" gets dropped on the daily
We become so numb to what we’re saying
A culture founded from oppression
Yet we don’t have acceptance for ‘em
Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board
A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it
Gay is synonymous with the lesser
It’s the same hate that’s caused wars from religion
Gender to skin color, the complexion of your pigment
The same fight that led people to walk outs and sit ins
It’s human rights for everybody, there is no difference!
Live on and be yourself
When I was at church they taught me something else
If you preach hate at the service those words aren’t anointed
That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned
When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen
I might not be the same, but that’s not important
No freedom till we’re equal, damn right I support it
And I can’t change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
We press play, don’t press pause
Progress, march on
With the veil over our eyes
We turn our back on the cause
Till the day that my uncles can be united by law
When kids are walking ‘round the hallway plagued by pain in their heart
A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are
And a certificate on paper isn’t gonna solve it all
But it’s a damn good place to start
No law is gonna change us
We have to change us
Whatever god you believe in
We come from the same one
Strip away the fear
Underneath it’s all the same love
About time that we raised up
And I can’t change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
I can't change
Even if I try
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
Love is patient
Love is kind
Love is patient
Love is kind
(I‘m not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(I‘m not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I‘m not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(I‘m not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I‘m not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(I‘m not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I‘m not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
Love is kind
- "Same Love"
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
ft. Mary Lambert
Awesome song... Go look it up I you haven't heard.
MusicalLover9816
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