Gay marriage should be legalized because it is uncivilized and unmerited.

Our civil rights

and the Constitution give us many liberties. One of our civil liberties is the pursuit of
happiness, which homosexual people are not allowed to chase. They cannot be married to
the person they love and it violates their freedoms. According to professorshouse.com, “In
Alaska, Nevada, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Nebraska, Missouri, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio,
Kentucky, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and
Alabama, not only is gay marriage banned, but so are civil partnerships.”

Others might ask why gay marriage should be legalized, but my question is this: why should
other people be able to choose who marries who? If a man and a woman get married, no
one seems to care. They are two people who feel affection for one another and those two
people want to start a family. If we change the scenario a little bit and a man and a man, or
a woman and a woman, try to get married it causes uproar. They are not allowed to be
married or raise a family together.

Imagine waking up one day to a world that was completely opposite from the world we went
to sleep in, meaning gay people are now straight and all straight people are now gay. Do
you think the newly straight people would fight for the newly homosexual people’s rights?
America is the land of the free, but we are not free to marry whomever we would like. After
everything straight people have put homosexual people through, in this scenario,
homosexual people would most likely vote for their rights because they would want their
rights to be voted for. We are equals in this world whether we are Black, White, Hispanic,
Indian, or any other race for that matter. Why should we not be equals based on sexual
orientation?

The 1st amendment of the Constitution states that a person’s religious beliefs or a lack of
thereof must be protected. Legislatures also cannot discriminate against marriages of the
minority party which, homosexual people fall into that category. There is also an
amendment stating there is separation of church and state, so you cannot declare that a
marriage is a gift from God.

In a marriage there is one thing that truly matters: love. Yes, other things are important
too, but not one couple would make it to even asking someone to marry them if there was
not some love. Las Vegas, Nevada is also known for being the place where many weddings
occur which are annulled within one week. These marriages are not based off love, but
simply a drunken night in Vegas. High divorce rates weaken what a marriage is defined as.
Why are we not able to rewrite what a marriage stands for and make it include a
homosexual marriage? The definition of love, according to dictionary.com is as follows:
“Very strong affection: an intense feeling of tender affection and compassion.” If gay people
feel this way then why shouldn’t they be able to be married? If they are happy with each
other, said persons should be able to marry.
California, Hawaii, New York, and the District of Columbia all have domestic partnership
laws and civil partnerships meaning it is almost a marriage without the matrimony. Civil
partnerships also give couples the ability to have joint bank accounts, live in the same
house, and pay bills together. Homosexual couples are not entitled to this in most states.
Marriage benefits should be available to all couples, no matter what. In places where gay
marriages are banned, the gay couples are not able to have the same benefits as others.
When filing for health care or insurance through a job, gay couples are not able to add each
other on. Most loved ones, such as a spouse or a child, in a straight marriage, can make life
altering decisions in a hospital if need be. Since gay marriage is not legal, said person’s
spouse is not recognized as their next of kin and care is delayed.

Who would be affected if homosexual marriage was legalized? No one. Everyone believes
there is one person who is out there to love us. Gay people feel the same way. Parenthood
is a benefit of marriage and gay couples cannot have children by themselves, without some
type of help, so they look to adoption agencies. In some cases gay couples are put on
longer waiting lists or denied completely. There are other benefits to being married as well,
such as tax breaks. On the website professorshouse.com it reads, “When we hit our mid-
thirties, we wanted only true friendships- friendships that were durable.” This is a perfect
example of matrimony and what it should be based on. . According to dictionary.com a
marriage is, “The legal or religious ceremony that formalizes the decision of two people to
live as a married couple, including the accompanying social festivities.” If this is a marriage
why are gay people not included in this?

Even though gay marriage should be legalized, some people have different beliefs. In most
religions including, Christianity, Islam, and Orthodox Judaism same sex preferences are a
sin. People believe in procreation to repopulate the world, but are against gay marriage and
homosexuals adopting children because they cannot procreate on their own. If this is a
stand point on making or breaking gay marriage then only people who are fertile and want
to procreate should be able to get married according to this bias. America has never really
given gay marriage a chance, but they believe gay marriage will weaken its institution by
leading to high divorce rates. On loveandpride.com I read, “One reason legislatures are
denying gay marriage is because they are fearful that opening the door to allowing gay
marriages will open the door to polygamy as well. This would also mean reopening cases
about polygamy in the past which they are not willing to do.” Others are fearful for
children’s futures and they fear being raised by two fathers or by two mothers may
compromise children’s mental capacities.

Even though to most people gay marriage should be illegal and should stay in its current
state, I believe we need to change the world for future generations. We feared that different
religions were going to clash, but now all of the religions coexist. White people had Black
and Hispanic slaves, but we overcame the odds and now White men, Black men, and
Hispanic men can be equals. If it is possible to overcome such fierce obstacles then we can
overcome the boundary obstructing gay marriages and straight marriages alike. Gay
marriage should be legalized for these reasons. Evolution will always continue and at any
given point in time, something will occur that we will not like in this world, but we can
overcome this. Gay marriage is a controversial issue that people have been fighting for
years and it has finally come to the surface. We should take charge of it.

1. On May 17, 2004, the first legal gay marriage in the United States was performed in Cambridge,
MA between Tanya McCloskey, a massage therapist, and Marcia Kadish, an employment
manager at an engineering firm. [26]

2. The world's first legal gay marriage ceremony took place in the Netherlands on Apr. 1, 2001, just
after midnight. The four couples, one female and three male, were married in a televised
ceremony officiated by the mayor of Amsterdam. [152]
3. On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution guarantees the right for
same-sex couples to marry in all 50 US states