The world is black and white, left and right, right and wrong. But isn’t there more to that? Isn’t an entity better with the combined efforts of black and white, not just black, or just white?

Just think, a person can be neither Democratic nor Republican. How? Say you believe in a less controlling government: a well-known Republican view, yet you also support a woman’s choice to have an abortion. Let me be the bearer of good news: there is a party for you! It is called the Libertarian party. Oooh Aaaaah.

Here’s another situation: you believe that global warming is a looming force that is waiting to destroy our earth: a likely more Democratic viewpoint, but you don’t like how parties are in the pocket of big banks and corporations. Today is a good day for you! I present to you, the Green Party. So, if a person is neither Democratic nor Republican it’s totally fine!

We have been taught that you can only like one type of person, but what is the harm in loving both men and women? It might not be half and half, someone could lean more toward men, yet be attracted to women. We are taught one way or the other and we have to find out our own, the hard way, that there are other options than the ones we’ve been exposed to before.

I propose that we take this into stride and give the next generation every option, not just the ones we believe is true. It’s like saying to a boy “you have to like girls it’s just not natural the other way” when you could tell him he can love whoever he wants. Does that not sound better!? So, let others deviate from the norm, see what happens because sometimes it’s better.