So earlier I was on my way to Subway to get some lunch for Garret and me when I started hearing sirens behind me. I looked in my rear view mirror and there was an ambulance coming up the street behind me driving fast with its lights and sirens on. All of the cars immediately pulled over to the side of the road in order to get out of the way so that the ambulance could get through. At first I didn't think anything of it but then a minute later a cop car came and another ambulance came up behind me heading in the same direction. Again, all of the cars around immediately got out of the way for the vehicles. It got me thinking. When it really matters people can be good. Even if it is just getting out of the way of a vehicle that is on its way to save someone else's life. I wish that there were more times in the world when people would show this kind of humanity.
But we don't. When it comes to allowing two people to love each other freely we get in their way. When it comes to allowing people to practice their customs, their holidays and their religions we often get in their way. The Puritans didn;t like it when other people got in the way of their lives so they came here to America in search of a place where they could live their life without interference. That idea brought forth the bill of rights and our constitution. Yet the spirit of those laws, those protections have not been carried over to now.
For example,
Why can't people just get out of the way when it comes to gay and lesbian marriage?
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