Sometimes, fighting for what you believe means combatting odds that are stacked against you.
Like 18-year-old Max Singer.
He organized other young marchers in the city of Holland, MI, in response to a vote by their City Hall not to include the terms “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” in a nondiscrimination housing ordinance.
That’s a mouthful. Basically, discrimination against someone for their gender or sexual orientation in Holland housing would technically not be protected under this local law. And in this world, a technicality is everything.
Max Singer, and other young activists, marched on the city hall to persuade the Holland City Council to change their mind on the vote.
Although they did not succeed, I definitely support this gentleman for his tenacity in supporting and organizing on behalf of an issue which he believed was important not just to him, but to other people. He could have shied away from the battle, because a decision had already been made. Yet, he believed in the cause enough to pursue the issue.
I can understand the importance of including this language in the law – for every language omission, there is an opportunity to exploit a loophole. Discrimination is one of those areas where I do not believe we should allow people the benefit of the doubt to police their own morals responsibly, or to be backwards thinking about the differences between all people’s and the need to recognize them in policies that are supposed to be on behalf of the people.
Whatever your movement or cause, adversity is just the roadblock placed in front of you to step on to be within reach of your real objective.
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