What is it with gays?

Barely a day passes before one reads in newspapers or sees on television a piece of news reporting about gay activists fighting for their rights in some country here or there.

What's with rights in the world? Why cannot people tolerate the actions of other people and mind their own business?

When France threatened to suspend Muslim female students for wearing headdresses in public schools, nearly one fifth of the world's population criticized the French decision which they thought was not in line with human freedoms.

When Egypt's police arrested dozens of gays on charges of practicing habits that were not in line with the Muslim creed, only a few organizations accused the Egyptian government of violating human rights.

In the US, the presumed hotbed of human liberty and freedom, American President George Bush expressed staunch opposition to gay marriages thus joining the Vatican in denouncing same sex marriages.

So who's right in all of this? Perhaps no one. Right and wrong are relative and vary between the code of ethics of every individual. As long as there is no public harm of two people of the same sex who decide to tie the knot, the sexual orientation of a person should remain his/her own choice.

In medieval Europe, adulterers and fornicators were burnt. Several centuries later, fornication reached all corners of the planet earth, even in the most conservative societies, without being looked at as a harmful habit.

Perhaps in a few decades time, homosexuality would stop creating a big fuss in the lives of those who have no better things to take care of.