Persuasive Essay

Imagine you’ve found the person you want to spend the rest of your life with; you’re completely in love and you want to get married; but you can’t, you’re not allowed to. You don’t get to have a wedding reception, no vows, no exchanging rings, no walk down the aisle. You are also denied the legal rights that come along with marriage. If your partner gets sick with a terminal illness, you may not be allowed to visit them in the hospital because you are not their spouse. If they die from that illness, all their worldly possessions could go to a distant cousin because you aren’t married, even though you two were partners in almost every other way. Unfortunately, these are some of the hardships that gay and lesbian couples face every day. And the sad thing is most of the arguments keeping same-sex marriage are flawed and reactionary and are based upon nothing more than prejudice, ignorance, bigotry and fear. Same-sex marriage should be legalized because lesbian and gay couples are good parents, because homosexuality is a common occurrence in nature, and because the laws keeping same sex-marriage from being legalized are old and outdated. Those against gay and lesbian marriages often use the argument that homosexual couples are unfit parents and cannot produce a child without help from a 3rd party. So, therefore, they should not be allowed to marry, since the sole reason for a marriage is to produce a child. You will see that the arguer has already contradicted themselves; if the main reason for a marriage is to produce a child, then why are sterile couples allowed to marry?, and why does the arguer call gays and lesbians ‘unfit parents’ when no credible study has ever found that to be true? A study done by: “The AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics, shows that children raised in homes with two parents of the same-sex develop just as normally as their peers”. Also, research done by: “Nanette Gartrell (a professor of psychiatry at the University of