...Gay marriage 1 Gay marriage Lynita Scott March 19, 2014 Week 4 Comp/170 Gay Marriage 2 Gay individuals should have as much rights as heterosexual individuals regardless of sexual preference. Gay marriage is viewed as wrong and unnatural by heterosexual individuals. Heterosexuals posed the idea that gay marriage is a threat to heterosexual marriage. Marriage is a human right that should not be based upon sexual preference and fear. “Traditional marriage” is one man and one woman not woman and woman. Legalizing gay marriage will not change the way marriage is viewed. The United States is the land of the free, yet discriminates against gay individuals and their rights. Marriage was established from the Christian religion pronouncing the love between one man and one woman. Religious individuals feel gay marriage is a sin and does not deserve the right to marry. A Gay individual not being able to marry violates freedom and rights of those individuals. America is not willing to give gay marriage a chance; the reasons are fear of their children and opening gates for other unusual marriages. Marriage is based upon the Christian religion ordained by God for the lifelong union between one man as husband and one woman as wife. Christian considers it to be sacred and holy. Religion is opposed by many individuals because of their sexual preference. Predominantly Christian based faith as the most influential force, to keeping same Gay Marriage ...
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...Started from the Bottom Now It’s Almost Here Same-sex marriage has been an ongoing issue for quite some time in the United States and it has existed throughout all of history; it has gone on a roller coaster of decisions just in the past fifteen years. The United States has not always been in favor of same-sex marriage, however, there are regions within the US, such as Massachusetts, that did get off of the path of the rest of the country and made their own laws about granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples. “Since 2001, ten countries and other nation-states have begun to legally formalize same-sex marriages, including Canada, Spain, and some regions within the United States” (Reidel 275). With the support of gay marriage from President Barack Obama, a few other states were in support also. The support of same-sex marriage comes from the belief that it would better our society and that it is an equal right amongst couples. Despite the factual evidence, there are still many people who believe that same-sex marriage would harm our society, but there is always an argument against that. The legalization of gay marriage would better our society and there are many sources and an ample amount of research to prove that. Same-sex marriage should be an equal right. As African-Americans once fought for their freedom, women once fought for their right to vote, now homosexuals are fighting for their right to marry. The constitution says that everyone has a right to liberty...
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...POL210: Final Project Gay Marriage Abstract Gay marriage has many viewpoints both for and against. These viewpoints are from religious organizations as well as studies that have provided statistics regarding gay marriage. There are many articles that are used for research that disprove many of the theories that religious organizations use to defend the opposition of gay marriage. Religious based bias against gay marriage comes from beliefs and a person’s moral make up. Gay marriage has been legalized in places like Massachusetts for over eleven years. There has been little to no impact on gay marriage. Studies show that gay marriage is actually a benefit rather than a disadvantage to the general population. An analysis of those for or against gay marriage show that arguments that are solely based on religion can be disproved by actual studies that have been conducted rather than religious rhetoric. There are five basic arguments against gay marriage. They are: 1. It would weaken the definition and respect for the institution of marriage. 2. It would further weaken the traditional family values essential to our society. 3. It could provide a slippery slope in the legality of marriage (e.g. having multiple wives or marrying an animal could be next). 4. It confuses children about gender roles and expectations of society, and only a man & woman can pro-create. 5. The gay lifestyle is not something to be encouraged, as a lot of research shows it leads to...
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...society is gay marriage, and whether or not it should be legalized. I personally think it should be because it doesn't affect society, and if two people love each other why shouldn't they be able to get married. I don't understand what the big deal is, if you don't support it, you don't have too but it shouldn't really effect those people, it should only effect the people that are gay or support the cause. Many people don't see the good in legalizing gay marriage such as adopting children, when couples are married it is easier for them to adopt children, so you can give thousands of children a better home. If this issue was reversed, and we were fighting for the legalization of heterosexual marriages, how would all the non-supports of gay marriage feel? Society isn't effected by two people getting married, if it was then marriage in general would probably not even exist if it caused that many issues. Not only is society not effect, no one else is for that matter. “A marriage is a relationship between two people. How does it hurt society or people not involved in the marriage? It is a personal commitment that really is no one else's business. Society shouldn't be dictating what two people can or can't do when no one else is hurt in the process. If the church or certain groups disapprove, that's their right, but it isn't their right to stop it”(Messerli). Marriage is a good thing, and it will benefit gay families, and their children without causing harm to anyone. Gay marriage may be...
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...Gay Marriage “I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us,” says country singer Kinky Friedman (Friedman). Gay marriage has been one of the most talked about and highly debated topics over the past decade fight alongside legalization of marijuana and abortion. Most of the issues however with gay marriage simply come to down to religion and its belief that marriage is something solely ordained by God. Marriage is anything but a restricted privilege of the religious, and the legalization of gay marriages would greatly help this country. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, marriage is the “the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law," and “the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage (Merriam-Webster).” What’s ironic here is that the world’s foremost dictionary defines marriage as the same both for hetero and homosexual couples, and society who uses that same dictionary to find a definition for everything else in the world simply ignores that entry. See one of the biggest problems and fallacies in a gay marriage debate is that marriage does not just come from religious backgrounds. According to a publication from “The Week,” “Pair-bonding began in the Stone Age as a way of organizing and controlling sexual conduct and providing a stable structure for child-rearing and the...
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...Critical analysis 2 Eyes that does not permit Gay Marriage Marriage should be the union of male and female. Gay marriage is people of the same sex coming together through mutual consent to say they are married. Gay marriage should not be permitted because the psychological impact is enormous among those children that find themselves trapped in this kind of union. Many of these children become confused about gender roles and social life with other peer groups like friends and classmates. There are many health hazards associated with the homosexual relationship. It is obvious that gay perspective play a role for people who practice this behavior. Audience, of pro-gays say that gay marriage creates family, and that they face future health hazards. Gay couple often have children in their life, which is attributed to the previous partner in a heterosexual relationship. A professor of Psychology at Michigan’s Hope College declared his idea by saying, “A gay or lesbian couple may have children of their own from former heterosexual marriages, or one or the other may become the biological parent of the child conceived through artificial insemination. In addition, many lesbian and gay men become parent through adoption.” (Myer, 2005) Some gay male couples have children because they have created arrangements with someone else to act as a surrogate mother. Some lesbian couples have children because they used artificial insemination. Finally, some gay couples have children because they...
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...Running Head: GAY MARRIAGE 1 Gay Marriage: Good or Bad? Terry Richmond SOC 120 Robert Gala Oct. 1, 2012 GAY MARRIAGE 2 Gay Marriage: Good or Bad? Some organizations will lead you to believe that if same-sex couples are allowed to marry it will further weaken the institution of marriage. However, two people of the same sex should be allowed to marry because it would give them basic rights such as hospital visitation, taxation, and access to family health coverage. Same-sex marriages could bring a huge financial gain to local and state governments in the form of marriage license fees, higher income taxes, and a decrease in state benefit program costs. If we continue to deny marriage to same-sex couples it will send the message that it is ok to discriminate against them. As some well-known anti-gay groups such as Focus on the Family diminish their stance on gay marriage, a core of smaller groups that are mostly religious motivated continue to demonize homosexuals...
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...be seen most prevalently in the business conservatives, who hold strong anti-aid sentiments. For instance, a steep 89 percent believe that the government today can’t afford to do much more to help the needy, which is much greater than the 51 percent of the general public who support that statement. In general, however, this change would still do more to aid the party than hurt it. This is due to a multitude of reasons. Firstly, like most issues, this one is also evolving as time progresses. Of the young people, most of whom belong to the left-leaning groups, a significant proportion (50 or more percent) believe that government...
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...Gay Marriage K P Ashford University Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility SOC 120 Abayomi Balogun October 5, 2012 Gay Marriage The future of marriage in America is coming to a change in this day and age. The idea of just a traditional marriage will just about vanish; instead it will include man and man or woman and woman. From my stand point it doesn’t change things in my life nor should it change anything in others. Let’s look back in history to things that needed to be change to tolerations in our country. Not too many years ago it was illegal for a non-white to marry a white because of The Racial Integrity Act enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia. Now look at where we have come today. So it’s is just a matter of time for tolerance of this next. Here I will point out some of the basic issues and need of humans before I start in on the religious points as to why it is looked at as wrong in some people’s eyes but not in others. It has only been one way I have ever had a negative outlook on this topic is the atheistic view on laws and the beliefs as to how marriage is to be. I am making these statements as child from a homosexual parent who had a civil union of her own. The idea that the laws are old and out dated for our lives this day and age is so outlandish. These law and developments are the corner stone of our lives and cultural development. A few of the anti government groups point out that this is the right of someone to marry who...
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...homosexual? What is homosexual marriage? Homosexual is defined as same-sex; meaning ‘sexually attracted only to people of the same-sex as oneself’ (Oxford Dictionary, 2000, p. 883). Homosexual marriage is between two same-sex partners’ also known as same-sex marriage. Homosexual marriage is illegal in some countries and states on a decade of a century ago. The government and the society’s point of view towards the marriage institution should only consist of a man and a woman. The trend of homosexual couples are increasingly gaining approved in other countries but they are still not been allowed to marry. However, in 2004, Massachusetts which is a part of the America is the first state that was allowed same-sex couples to marry (Vestal, 2009). Same-sex marriage was gradually permitted in some countries. According to the Confessore and Barbaro (2011), New York has the highest rate where gay and lesbian couples get married. Due to this, it is obvious that homosexual couples wish that their relationship can be accepted by the society. Nowadays, majority of the people have no problem towards the issue of homosexuality. According to a questionnaire result that was stated in the Beijing News, 100 percent out of 83 percent of the respondents born in 1980 years to 1990 years did not disagree of homosexuality (The Star, 2012, p. 39). The purpose of this paper is to point out that homosexual couples have their rights to marry as legalizing homosexual marriage can also bring a multitude advantages...
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...The Controversy of Same-Sex Marriage Same-sex marriage has been a controversial social issue in the U.S. for several decades, but public opinion on this topic seems to be evolving. For example, an annual poll by Gallup has been tracking the question of whether or not same-sex marriages should be legal since 1968, and the percentage of favorable responses has increased from 27 percent to 53 percent during this time frame. Although this certainly is not a huge majority, it does indicate that the support for same-sex marriage within the U.S. is likely to become increasingly widespread over the next couple of decades. However, there are still several religious and political groups who are opposed to the idea of same-sex marriage. This opposition is typically based on the belief that homosexuality is a sin, but the separation of church and state is supposed to make this viewpoint legally irrelevant. The Current Status of Same-Sex Marriage Same-sex marriage is legal in nine states, Washington, D.C. and two Native American tribes. There are also several other states that are considering making same-sex marriage legal, and Illinois is poised to become the next state to take this step. In addition to which, the U.S. Supreme Court is getting ready to hear arguments in a case that will determine whether or not California’s same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. President Barack Obama declared his support of same-sex marriage in May 2012, and some people believe that this has had...
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...enter into consensual marriage is enshrined in international human rights standards. Article 16, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR): Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. For more than a decade, this non-discrimination principle has been interpreted by UN treaty bodies and numerous inter-governmental human rights bodies as prohibiting discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation. Non-discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation has therefore become an internationally recognized principle and many countries have responded by bringing their domestic laws into line with this principle in a range of spheres including partnership rights http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/lgbt-rights/marriage-equality Gay marriage has divided the American people over the past few years. Yet such a sharp divide is a very recent occurrence. Only a decade ago, gay marriage was nil but an afterthought on the plates of many U.S. leaders. Liberal Democrats like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton did not even support or condone the idea that gays should be able to marry. Yet the turn of the century brought new life and perspective into this issue, and at this moment, a substantial majority of the American public actually support gay marriage. The Legal Definition of Marriage: Why Rely on the Bible...
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...domestic partnership benefits to all same-sex couples throughout the state. (Clifford) The first domestic partnership ordinance--implemented in Berkeley, California, in 1984--provided official acknowledgment of the unions of same-sex couples, at a time when legal marriage did not exist elsewhere. There are currently 5 states that allow same-sex couples to marry. In date order, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, and New Hampshire. As of March 3 2010 the District of Columbia now recognizes gay marriage. (William) This is a very important ethical issue in business. Although most employers are not required to offer benefits to all of its employees, it is hard for the employers to decide to give domestic partners any benefits or even to give the domestic partners all of the potential benefits, and one example would be life insurance. One of the bigger issues for the companies is if they do not offer the benefits, they might lose an employee to another company that does. Public and Private employers are recognizing that to remain competitive in attraction and retaining top talent they must meet the demands of the work force. This means accommodating specific demographics, such as workers with non-traditional relationships. (Health Insurance for Domestic Partnerso) I think the ethical intensity for...
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...Essay 1: Some people believe that marriage is a sacred institution that should only be between a man and a woman, and that it's immoral for marriage to exist between same sex couples, implying inferiority of love between same sex couples. But who are they to stop one’s inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness? I believe marriage should be legal for any two individuals who truly love each other and who have intentions to spend their lives together and be granted legal recognition of their union. Only 5 of the 50 states in the United States of America grant the right of same sex marriage. Under the United States constitution, the 14th amendment specifies equality for all men saying that state cannot “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Though this doesn’t specifically address the topic of gay marriage, it does give a constitutional basis to the belief in equal rights to marriage between people, regardless of sexual orientation, just as marriage is a right to people regardless of their race. It is not fair for some to have the benefits of marriage while others cannot. All individuals should have the same rights in society, and to me personally the idea goes against our constitution when these rights are denied. People all have their reasons for rejecting or accepting this lifestyle. I believe that one significant influence to a person’s acceptance of different sexual orientations is religion, which is often sited as a reason to deny...
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