Last Friday, Ellen DeGeneres spoke about the eigth grade boy shot and killed by his classmate last week in California for being gay. The fifteen year old boy, Larry, had asked the shooter, Brandon, to be his valentine. Brandon felt that this request warrented Larry to be killed for his sexual orientation; in the following days, Brandon brought a gun into school and shot Larry. On her show, Ellen announced that she did not want to be political, but demanded that we have to change the message about gay men and women. The fact that Brandon thought that being another boy's valentine was so terrible that he had to kill a classmante shows that as a society we are still not sending the right message about homosexuality. Ellen encouraged the audience and everybody watching to vote for a candidate that supports equality for all so that tragedies like this will not happen ever again.
This clip from Ellen's show made me recall and interview with Mike Huckabee on The Tyra Show. Tyra Banks asked Huckabee about his view of homosexuality, to which he responded that he is tolerant of homosexuality, but does not believe that it is what men and women are meant to do. Huckabee claims that men are supposed to marry women, and the being homosexual is a deviation from the norm. Barak Obama, on the other hand, released this statement: "I'm running for President to build an America that lives up to our founding promise of equality for all – a promise that extends to our gay brothers and sisters. It's wrong to have millions of Americans living as second-class citizens in this nation. And I ask for your support in this election so that together we can bring about real change for all LGBT Americans." Obama and Huckabee's views represent those of many Americans, but hopefully the California shooting will open people's eyes to the continuing inequality in our society. So please, everyone, let your voice be heard and go vote!
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