If I am at a party and the host is cutting the cake and my piece and all other pieces are exactly the same size, am I getting an equal serving, or a special one?

The obvious answer is that my serving is equal to all others.

What would be incorrect is to decide that my serving should be smaller because my having one of equal size means I am receiving special treatment. That would reduce me in stature although in all respects I am the same as everyone else present. We are all guests at the party and we share that in common.

However, if my piece is smaller, and I ask for a serving equal in size to all others, am I asking for special treatment, or merely to be treated like all the others?

When it comes to human rights, the ones with which mankind is endowed by its creator, among which are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, here are just a few more rights beyond those that were listed in the Declaration of Independence as merely examples and are equally bestowed on all of mankind as we are all at the same party given by the same host.

-Living in freedom and safety.

-Freedom from hurt or torture.

-Equal application of established law.

-Freedom from harm to our good name.

-The right to security in our homes.

-Our family not being badly treated without a good reason.

-The right to go where we want in our own country and travel as we wish.

-The right to marry and have a family.

–The right to own things or share them.

-The right to believe in what we want to believe, to have a religion or not, or to change it if we want.

-The right to make up our own minds, to think what we like, to say what we think, and to share our ideas with other people.

-The right to meet our friends and to work together in peace to defend our rights. Nobody can make us join a group if we don’t want to.

-The right to take part in the government of our country.

-The right to affordable housing, medicine, education, and child care, enough money to live on and medical help if we are ill or old.

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-The right to be cared for.

-The right to our own way of life.

-The right to enjoy the good things that art, science and learning bring.

-The right to development and self-determination.

These are rights shared by all Americans, and to deny these to anyone is to violate their rights as a citizen. Wanting to have these rights is not asking for anything special, but it is asking to have what others have.

They are what GLBT people want, and they are what Heterosexuals already enjoy.

We hear about White Privilege, but few are aware of Heterosexual Privilege which many GLBT people have at one time experienced while discovering their true selves, only to lose it upon self-discovery.

And it is not just limited to Whites.

When I was young, I had not come to fully accept myself for who I truly was. I attempted, on the assumption that that as just the way it was, to be just like everyone around me, friends, family, both immediate and extended, public figures on television and in real life.

I assumed I would eventually marry, have children, grow old, and die in the presence of my grandchildren.

When I applied for jobs or places to live, the only consideration I had to deal with was whether I could do the job and could pay the rent.

I could go anywhere, eat anywhere, shop anywhere, party anywhere.

But when I accepted myself and then “Came Out”, the things I had taken for granted suddenly went away, and employment and housing had to pass tests they had never had to pass before.

The only thing that changed was that I stopped attempting to attain that which was not right for me.

When he was being questioned during the hearing concerning his nomination for head of Housing and Urban Development, the government department that deals with fair housing, Ben Carson was asked about the rights of GLBT citizens obviously in relation to the right to housing, he replied,

“If confirmed in this position, of course I would enforce all the laws of the land, and I believe that all Americans regardless of any of the things that you mentioned should be protected by the law. What I mentioned in the past is the fact no one gets extra rights”.

If I ask for an equal serving, I take nothing away from the others in attendance, and their only objection to my sharing as equally as they do is that by doing so, they do not get more for themselves of what should have been mine.

And if I am denied the same sized serving, while they get the special treatment of larger ones, I am denied equality.

So if “no one gets extra rights”, GLBT people should have the same rights as someone like Ben Carson has.