10.

IT WILL DECREASE THE

DIVORCE RATE.

More than 50% of married couples in America get divorced. Studies

show that the US has one of the highest divorce rates compared to
other countries. Allowing gays the opportunity to get married will
increase marriage rates because less couples will get divorced due to
incompatibility or infertility. Legalizing gay marriage will decrease
divorce rate because it cannot get any worse than it is right now.

9. NO EFFECT ON THE
HETEROSEXUAL COMMUNITY.
Gay Marriage will have no impact whatsoever on heterosexual
communities, just as racial integration in the 60's had no negative
impact on white communities. This is the same concept with
legalization of gay marriage, it will grant the LGBT community a right
that has been immorally denied to them.
8. SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND
STATE.

One of the major reasons that gay marriage is currently illegal is due to the religious
interpretation that " homosexual are sinners." Such a religious perspective should have no place
in federal, legal matters in the US. We live a secular society that maintains secular views. The
Ten Commandments do not define our legal system, so why does the religious argument
"marriage is the union between a man and a women" keep so many gay couples from becoming
legally married? Legalizing gay marriage will have no negative impact on religion and/ or the
religious view of others, just as religion should not have any impact on the issue of gay marriage.

7. IT'S AN ISSUE OF EQUAL

RIGHTS.
In the 50's, interracial marriage was illegal. But now, modern society
understands this to be an unjust law that denied equal rights to
couples who loved each other. The issue of gay marriage is no
different. Denying marriage to two individuals who love each other is
to deny them a fundamental freedom.

6. GAY MARRIAGE IS ALREADY

A REALITY.
In New York, thousands of gay couples have already gotten married.
Manhattan is expecting $9 million revenue during the first year that
marriage was legalized. Sure, the economic boost is a plus..but the
reality is that millions of gay partners already practice monogamous.
loving relationships in the United States. The trouble is that they are
not legally protected as married couples, even though their lifestyle
mimics marriage! Gays already practice marriage in their homes, so
whats wrong with granting the LGBT community the rights they
deserve?

5. BECAUSE CIVIL UNIONS ARE

NOT THE SAME.
Gay couples are legally allowed to enter into civil union partnership..
but this is not nearly the same thing as marriage. Marriage licenses
grant innumerable rights to married couples, rights that are not
endowed to gay couples in civil unions. It is no excuse to deem that
gay marriage is not necessary because "they already have civil
unions...why do they want more?" The financial, medical, and social
rights that are associated with marriage are unfortunately kept away
from homosexual couples.

4. IT WILL DIMINISH YOUTH

SUICIDE.
One of the main reasons why teenagers are commit suicide are due to
the child being bullied at their school as a result of his/her sexual
orientation. The same acceptance that will come about due to
legalizing gay marriage will show teens that homosexuality is accepted
and respected in society. We need to explain to younger generations
that being different is not a social disability, so that they will never feel
the need to take their own lives because they are gay.

3. HOSPITAL VISITATION &

MEDICAL RIGHTS.
Its hard to believe that in an era of imaginable technological
advancements, sexuality-based discrimination still exists. Hospitals
cannot legally allow gay partners to receive medical information about
their condition without a blood relative present. Legalizing gay
marriage will allow gay couples hospital visitation rights and respect
the validity of their marriage by letting them make medical decisions
on behalf of their spouses.

2. FOSTER SOCIETAL
ACCEPTANCE OF GAY COUPLES
AND GAY INDIVIDUALS.
Legalizing gay marriage will help establish a social norm that includes
and respects homosexual lifestyles. Couples as well as individuals in
the LGBT community will seem less "different" from heterosexual
lifestyle, so straight couples and individuals will be more inclined to
accept homosexual couples into their communities.

1. INCREASE AMOUNT OF
CHILDREN SUCCESSFULLY
ADOPTED.
Most adoption agencies discriminate against gay couples and make it
incredibly difficult for them to adopt children. Many agencies will only
release children to "married" couples, therefore rejecting stable,
loving, homosexual parents. By legalizing gay marriage in ALL states,
adoption agencies will be forced to grant the same respect and right to
homosexual couples. Gay marriage will increase the chances for
thousands of foster children to gain loving parents and families.