Could you imagine not being able to marry your significant other? Imagine being bullied in school because who you love‚ like‚ and are. Could you imagine watching all your friends getting married‚ divorced‚ married again and divorced again and you haven’t even had the chance to marry once? This is real for almost all same sex couples. I am all for making same sex marriage legal nation wide. People focus to much on their genders and not so much the love the two have for each other. Not letting a couple
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Throughout history homosexuality has been considered vulgar‚ perverse and immoral. What is truly immoral is homophobia and that it still prevails today. Firstly‚ homophobia derived from prejudice and escalated to panic. Secondly‚ homophobic attitudes are endorsed and practiced by many places of worship‚ which are hypocritical to God’s concept of the Golden Rule. Thirdly‚ the severity of homophobia has reached a point of no return‚ where the lives of many innocent have been viciously taken away. Lastly
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same-sex couples to marry will give them access to basic rights such as hospital visitation during an illness‚ taxation and inheritance rights‚ access to family health coverage‚ and protection in the event of the relationship ending (Freedom to Marry). Gay marriage doesn’t hurt society or anyone in particular. It is a personal commitment that really is no one else’s business. Society shouldn’t be dictating what two people can or can’t do when no one else is hurt in the process (Messerli). Same sex couples
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e“The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage” Why same-sex marriage is an American Value. Critique Theodore B. Olson (2010)‚ a former United States Solicitor General‚ who served under President George W. Bush‚ attempts to persuade a federal court to invalidate Proposition 2‚ which banned same sex marriage in California. In his article “The conservative Case for Gay Marriage”‚ the widower of the writer Barbara Olson‚ murdered during 9/11‚ argues‚ from a conservative point of view‚ that it should
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Did you know that the first legal gay marriage did not happen until 2004 while congress‚ the lawmaking branch of our nation’s government‚ has been around since it was created in 1787? It took our government two hundred and seventeen years to legalize gay marriage in just one state‚ one state out of fifty. Luckily‚ now there are 37 states in America that legalized gay marriage. But what is taking our country so long to end the struggle for equal rights in all of our states? There are still 13 states
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are completely against gay marriage; and many of liberals are fighting for equal treatment. The neo-Christian politicians are using religious arguments to establish that homosexuality is an abomination. While this may be their belief system‚ this country was founded on religious freedom‚ where the people are allowed to worship how they see fit. These two polarized views have created gay marriage to be a very coarse topic among Americans. Recently three states have legalized gay marriage. Can this be
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Administration Formally Supports Nationwide Gay Marriage.” CNN Wire 7 Mar. 2015. Opposing Viewpoints in context. Web. 10 Mar. 2015 On March 6‚ 2015‚ the Obama administration filed a statement to the Supreme Court calling ban to gay marriage unconstitutional. This is another follow up to the statement made by then presidential candidate Obama before ascending into office back in 2012. When he was inaugurated in 2013‚ he states‚ “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like
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Today’s Rights for Gays & Lesbians Today’s Rights for Gays & Lesbians The state and federal laws for Gay’s and Lesbian are unfair and discriminatory. In today’s ever so changing world it’s hard to keep up with laws. Most of the laws are printed on a fine line‚ but the rights for homosexuals are blurred. With the topic being hot in the media it is hard to get the correct story. Two of the most important rights that get blurred are marriage and same sex adoption. Same sex marriage
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In it’s role as a moral of teacher‚ the law now misleads America about the true nature of marriage. Ever since the court case‚ Obergefell v. Hodges‚ in the summer of 2015 gay marriage has been documented as legal in all 50 states according to the Constitution. Nowadays‚ it seems as if those who hold pubic office are straying away from the founding fathers original intent‚ which was to build a nation based off of Judeo Christian values. Same sex marriage is one of the many issues that contributes
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Two editorials were posted in the “New York Daily News” and “Times of Trenton” pertaining to the subject of legalizing gay marriage. Both articles argue the position against gay marriage and use the same focal point in their articles: the negative effects that legalizing gay marriages will have on children being raised by same sex parents. Also‚ both articles contain logical fallicies in their argument and use many of the same tactics to argue their point such as scare tactics‚ statistics‚ and quotes
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