On Making Laws for Specific People

There are a number of local ordinances, state and federal laws that people are suggesting changes and additions for to address particular groups of people.

Be it to allow gays to get married or gays to have their "significant others" as beneficiaries, or gays to be allowed publicly in the military or modifying existing anti-discrimination laws to specifically "protect" gays and others.

Personally,  I will go on the record saying this.   I don't care about gays enough to worry about what they do. For that matter,  I don't care about straights enough to care what they do.

I am never going to buy into the notion that being gay is a biologically 'natural' condition.  Yes, some people might be "born that way", but a lot of people are born with Down's Syndrome too.

Just because it happens doesn't mean it is "normal".

Back to not caring about gays or straights.   I care about people.  Period.   I don't care about whites, blacks, Asians, Latinos, straight, gays, mixed.  Just people.

Why make an exclusion to a law that says only married people can have their spouse of the opposite sex can be a beneficiary of benefits or can be recognized as the person who can pull the plug, etc... just for gays?  Why not for anyone the patient or primary person wants to have in that position?

I can think of several situations in which a guy might choose another guy to be a insurance beneficiary and they not be gay.  Same goes for women.

The other person could be a best friend and they don't have many people they trust in their lives.

It could be a nephew or niece and they have no closer family or people they would consider an heir or a friend or family.

There is no reason to single out gays to receive these recognitions.

Why not just change the law that a person can identify anyone of their choice, be it male or female, to be a beneficiary or make those decisions on that persons behalf?

Then everyone is helped, whether they are gay or lesbian or straight or whatever.  As a matter of fact, it trivializes the matter of sexual preference to the non-issue it should be.

I am opposed to making laws or rules on behalf of sexual preferences or identifications.  If we are going to make laws, they need to be based on human needs, people in general needs.