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Crystal Gillespie - Final Paper
Crystal Gillespie - Final Paper
Crystal Gillespie - Final Paper
Should homosexuals have the legal right to marry and enjoy the same
benefits as other married couples?
The Declaration of Independence clearly states “that all men are created equal”
[ CITATION Dec76 \l 1033 ]. Amendment 14 in the United States Constitution states that
“no state shall deprive any person of life…” [ CITATION Uni87 \l 1033 ]. The Declaration
of Independence also says that all men have certain rights that cannot be taken
away from them; these rights include the “pursuit of happiness” [ CITATION Dec76 \l
1033 ]. We have prevailed over so many things in the past, such as segregation and
women’s rights, so why can’t we prevail over homosexual marriage? Everyone in life
deserves to be happy, no matter whom they are. Homosexuals are just the same as
anyone else and they deserve the right to marry who they want.
Homosexuality is not something that you can choose, it just happens as a part of
life. You cannot control who you are attracted to in life. “In the book,
Economics of Homosexuality, Edward M. Miller suggests that the birth order effect
shifts personality away from heterosexuality in later born sons” [ CITATION Wik10 \l 1033
]. Marriage is a sacred thing and is usually done when two people, no matter their
sex, are deeply in love and are happy with each other. The sex of the two people
that want to get married should not matter because, as stated above, everyone
deserves to be happy in life. In August of 1987, a lesbian minister in New
Hampshire was suspended from her church because she supposedly violated a rule
of the church which prohibited homosexuals from practicing, or being, on the clergy.
There have been many incidents, reported or not, of people not getting jobs just
because they happen to be homosexual, or even getting fired after they “come out of
the closet”. Homosexuals are not any different than anyone else in this world, they
live, they love and they die, just like everyone else. So why are they treated so
differently? In some places, they are not treated any differently than anyone else.
Canada legalized same-sex marriages in 2005 and is by far the most progressive
2006 Canadian Census – the only time the government has collected data
specifically counting same-sex married couples – there were nearly 15,000 married
Homosexuality is normal; it is not some type of nasty disease like some people
like to think. It also is not some weird stage that people go through and it is definitely
they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let
not man put asunder”. Love is unconditional and love makes a family, not the sex of
the partners. Everyone has the right to love whomever they please, but everyone
also has the right to be treated equally. Homosexuals should not be treated
differently just because of their lifestyle, to them it is not a choice, but a way of living,
and a way of living happily. Celebrities can be openly homosexual and not get
treated any differently, so why can’t average homosexual Americans be treated the
same as any other average American. Celebrity homosexuals should not get any
special treatment, especially when it comes to being treated a certain way in the
a long way since the very first homosexual “came out of the closet” many years ago
and it still has a long way to go. It is part of our future and homosexuals are part of
our world, whether you like it or not, so they should have the same rights as anyone
else has. We should not just tolerate homosexuals but instead embrace them as if
they were anyone else, because again, they are no different than anyone else.
Homosexuals live their lives just like any straight person would, other than the fact
that they sleep with someone of the same sex. Homosexuality should not be
whatever, but homosexuality should not have to be another one of someone’s life-
long identity.
Marriage is a legal and official bond between two people in love; a happy time
praised among many other people, and loved by almost all people of the world. But
when these two people in love are the same sex, it is not praised upon. Why?
Marriage shouldn’t be judged by the gender of the two people in love; love is love
homosexuality was considered to be a sin and was even illegal but we have come a
long way since then. Nowadays, people are somewhat more supportive of the fact
are for homosexual marriage and it is legal and some of the United States are
attempting to make it legal. In 2009 there were six states that legalized homosexual
marriage. Marriage is a right for everyone; it is a right for humans, not a privilege for
heterosexuals. People should not be able to judge loves boundaries and there is no
again, everyone has the right to love whomever they choose and should not be
punished for that. The true definition of the word marriage is explained as being “a
two people who intend to live together as sexual and domestic partners” [ CITATION
Bin10 \l 1033 ], nowhere in that definition does it say anything about the potential of
life-generation, or having children; which is the argument for most people against
homosexual marriage including the President of the Center for Public Justice. In his
Capital Commentary, James Skillen, the President of the Center for Public Justice,
centuries, as an enduring, covenant bond of love between a man and a woman that
[ CITATION Mar10 \l 1033 ]. He also states that “Homosexual relationships do not entail
sexual intercourse and do not have the potential for life-generation. Consequently,
such relationships do not constitute marriage and cannot give rise to families
through procreation.” [ CITATION Mar10 \l 1033 ]. No one should be able to tell anyone
what constitutes a marriage. As the definition states above; marriage has nothing to
do with reproducing, it is about love, and it is about two people who want to be in a
like the rest of us, other than that one simple fact of them sleeping with someone of
the same sex. That one little fact should not stop homosexuals from receiving the
same rights and privileges as everyone else in this world. Homosexuality is part of
our world and always will be, whether you like it or not, so deal with it and let them
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