Splits All Over - Where do you fall?
It should come as no surprise that Americans are split. We are split when it comes to our political party of choice and all the policies that they support. We are split on whether people who are attracted to members of the same sex have the right to live out their lives the same way as those who are attracted to member of the opposite sex. We are split on what kinds of choices a pregnant woman should be able make. We are split on whether we should be fighting someone else’s war of independence. We are split on whether access to education and health care should be a privilege or a right. We are split on how it is that we welcome immigrants into our country.
I am proud to live in a city and a state that believes we should enjoy living here. I am proud to live in a place where sexual preference does not make you a second class citizen; where woman have the freedom to choose what they do with their body if they so require; where the majority of our citizens, though they serve their country with honor, believe we should not be invading someone else’s; where education is need blind and health care is available to everyone. I am proud that, despite how ludicrous it seems given the cost of living, I live in a city where everyone is welcome.