Black Family and LGBT Community

This weeks discussion was particularly interesting to me because I had to really open myself up to information i've been taught to automatically steer away from.  Most African Americans that grow up in the church are taught to steer away from homosexuality because it is an abomination against God.  We are taught early on that when man was created, woman was created to be his partner.  Man was not created to be with man and vise versa for women and for this women this is why society in a way deems day marriage as unconstitutional.  It was amazing after hearing the guest speakers speak in such a personalized manner, how easy it was for me to be open to different homosexual relationships and while I do consider them to be a sin because of my religious teaching, I now am beginning the idealize a society that acknowledges same sex couples and allows them to benefit from the same constitutional rights that opposite sex couple have, that being marriage.  My reason for allowing for this right is based on the fact that the Unites States is a melting pot of different races, religious beliefs and institutions.  African Americans have sought and fought for equal rights as a race through various movements and in a way there fight for equality is no different from homosexuals.  Honestly, who are we to deny a person of making a committing relationship with another person because they are the same gender.  Love is love, it has no face. It is feeling you share for a person based on your compatibility, personality, qualities and overall feeling when your around that person and quite frankly same sex marriage is no threat to society.  A homosexual marriage is no different than a homosexual couple that lives together and is in a serious committed relationship.  The only thing that is different is a piece of paper that solidifies it.  While I do still believe homosexuality is a sin, plenty of people sin on a daily basis and I am not here to stop nor judge anybody for how they feel or who they feel they should be with.
As far as homosexuals and the black family and the community, I believe it is something that we need to start addressing and stop over looking it as if it doesn't exist.  In the end all it's doing is separating the black community even more and preventing us from uniting to better our selves as a whole.