Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 10:22








Look closely. The sign says 'If I can't marry my boyfriend, I'll marry your daughter.'

I always wonder why people are so much against homosexual marriages or marriages between races or between religions or whatever the hell it is. Don't they realise that these people trying to get married are people too?

In a world that is constantly battling with rogue nations supposedly armed with nuclear weapons of mass destruction (yes that's you North Korea!), in a world that has children who don't know whether they will be able to eat a meal daily, in a world filled with violence in video games and television and street fights and virtual tension, in a world where people think that their existence is meaningless and decide to go jump off a building, in a world where so much corruption, slavery, human rights abuse, child exploitation, familial violence, poverty and abuse, just to name a few, all exist, WHY DON'T PEOPLE SEE THAT LOVE, IF THERE IS LOVE AT ALL, IS ONE OF THE FORCES TO CHANGE THIS?!

Love is love. Whether it's between a man and a man, a man and a woman, or a woman and a woman, or between people and animals so they stop animal abuse, between people and the earth to stop global warming, love is a driving force. Often, emotions are the driving forces behind our actions. If emotions are the driving forces behind our actions, then it's time we stopped acting out of hate. It's time we stopped discriminating against others because of some whatever-shit-factor. It's time we stopped having hate speech not just in Singapore where some Tampines JC students were branded dogs in a wikipedia article, but in the world. It's not a problem that's mutually exclusive to us.

If love is a better driving force behind our actions than hate, then why do people condemn certain types of love?