Exemplification Essay: The Ethics Of Gay Marriage

Ethics of Gay Marriage What do you think when you see two guys walking down the sidewalk holding hands? Our society is based on improving and recreating to reach perfection. Yet there is this situation of "unnatural" marriage and most of our society wants it eliminated. If you think about the ethics of it though, you'll see that both sides have an equal argument in the dilemma. If you look at the ethical reason behind why people believe that gay marriage is wrong, it is purely due to discrimination. There are no real reasons why gay marriage should not be allowed, there are only reasons based on opinions, and one's own bias reasoning. Some people argue that it is "unnatural" because marriages are a legal and moral institution designed to promote and protect procreation and the raising of children. However, that can not be proven true due to the fact that some couples are infertile and cannot produce children. Would these couples then not be able to get married, since they cannot produce offspring? Society would not go for that. Also there are those people in our society that marry just to gain money, social status, or citizenship. Should these people not be allowed to marry? Since we can't know the reasons for marriage, we
can't control why they happen, so gay marriages shouldn't be any different. Some people believe that, since gay couples can't reproduce they wouldn't and shouldn't have kids.
Yet, it has been proven that gay couples can and do have kids. It is possible that either or both partners had a previous heterosexual relationship, and produced offspring. Some gay couples may have children because of arrangements for a surrogate mother. Some lesbian couples have children due to artificial insemination. Finally, some gay couples my have kids through adoption, which in the end, is better for our country because it means less money our government has to pay for orphan homes. If there are legal institutions created to promote the procreation of raising children, why can't it do so for gay couples as well as straight
couples? It is said that gay marriage is "unnatural," but what does that really mean? It can be assumed to mean that since gay marriage is not of the natural or normal way of doing things, it must be incorrect and looked down upon by our society that strives for perfection. Yet, if you look at our nature, our mother nature, you won't see any perfection at all. Since homosexuality in dogs, lions, cows, etc., is quite common and regular, you can no longer say that gay marriage is unnatural because nature, in itself, is unnatural. There are also men and women in our country who have undergone sex change operations. They have the genetic code of one sex, but the physical traits of the other. Who would they be allowed to marry? If a man that had a sex-change married a man, would it be considered wrong, since the man still has the original reproductive organs and may still be considered to most as a male? Or would it be even more wrong for a man that looks like a woman to marry another woman? Since our society is so judgmental on what is right and wrong, the answers to these questions may never found. Also, there are some men who suffer from a disease called "Testicular Feminization." It can be either complete, or incomplete, and when complete, a person who is genetically male, has the outward features of a woman, but has no organs for producing the egg, and my or may not have the organs to produce sperm. These particular people are born with this disease, just as some are born deformed or disabled. Just like in the situation with those who undergo sex change operations, who would these people be allowed to marry? Since these people have no biological bond with their gender, can they really be demanded to marry a certain gender. There is no certain way to determine what people with this disease will look like, but we can at least not judge based on appearances alone.