Legalization Of LGBT Rights In The United States

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Why can't the LGBT community be accepted It's estimated that there is only two hundred and twenty nine million gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people in the world, that’s 5 percent of the seven billion people who inhabit this earth; however this number doesn’t stop hateful, disgusting bigots from saying that there is a "gay agenda" to turn their children gay and use this as an excuse campaign to make it illegal worldwide. Egypt, Nigeria and Sudan are only three of the seventy nine countries in the world where being gay, lesbian and transgender is illegal, if caught with your partner three times you are sentenced to the death penalty, in Sudan it is also illegal for transgender people to change their gender and if they make the courageous decision to do so will also be executed! How horrendous is that? These innocent people are being executed for living their life.

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