Gay Marriage and the Constitution Amberlee Ozment Axia College of University of Phoenix Gay Marriage and the Constitution Is it okay to not believe in gay marriage‚ yet at the same time support the constitutional rights of life‚ liberty and pursuit of happiness for homosexual couples? Even though most churches’ beliefs conflict with marrying same-sex partners‚ government should not deny a person’s right to their happiness; because any person‚ no matter race‚ color‚ sex‚ religion or sexual
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WHY GAY MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGALIZED. Try to imagine life in a society that refuses individuals to marry who they love. Imagine people being around their partners‚ but not having the legal rights to call them their wives or husbands. The fact of the matter is one does not have to try to imagine this because this is the state of current society. People can argue about whether church and state should be separated‚ the banning of polygamy‚ and not legalizing gay marriage‚ but the major
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Legalizing Gay Marriage What is gay marriage? Gay marriage also known as same sex marriage is an ungodly civil union between the same gender. It may also be described as a union caused by strong emotional and physical attraction of the same sex driven by worldly desires. To make gay marriage permissible by law is an affront to God and it should not be condoned in order to protect the family and the true nature of humankind. Legalizing gay marriage is truly very controversial in any order. It
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Understanding Why Gay Marriage Should Be Legal PHI103 EraniaSmallwood Instructor Elisa Paik May 31‚2013 Gay marriage should be legal because as woman and man‚ all individuals have the same right in society; because same-sex couples can constitute a good based family; because it is just a way to make official a common union nowadays‚ even with the religious issue; because it is not related to polygamy; and because love matters and it does not differ in nature according to
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recently‚ California‚ gay marriage has been a growing trend in the United States. In the 8 months since the legalization‚ more and more gay couples have been rushing to California to tie the knot. However‚ California and Massachusetts are not the first to make an effort to strengthen the bonds of homosexual couples some European countries including Denmark‚ Holland‚ some Scandinavian countries‚ and others have legalized same-sex marriage and have found the results positive. Gay marriage has been a contradictory
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Legalization of Gay Marriage What is the definition of marriage? The dictionary states it as being the legal union between a man and a woman as husband and wife. However‚ times are changing as the gay life style becomes more accepted by society it is time to allow all couples regardless of sex to enjoy equal protections‚ rights and benefits under the law. Perhaps‚ it makes the most sense to consider arguments against same sex marriage to realize why it should be legalized; these arguments touch
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September 2013 The Irrelevancy of Gender in Marriage Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal is an article written by Thomas B. Stoddard‚ an executive director of a gay rights organization called the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. In the aforementioned article‚ he painfully illustrates the injustices and imbalance of the typical “traditional marriage” and its impact on average‚ devoted homosexual couples. More than just state his opinion on marriage between homosexuals‚ he emphasizes the injustice
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Exercise Revision: Against Gay Marriage In the article “Against Gay Marriage‚” the author‚ William J. Bennett‚ attempts to sway his readers against the legalization of gay marriage. After presenting the issue‚ he makes it palpable that he is against it‚ and his negative tone toward this topic is apparent in his opening sentence: “We are engaged in a debate which‚ in a less confused time‚ would be considered pointless and even oxymoronic: the question of same-sex marriage‚” (409). Bennett is assuming
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The time has come to legalise gay marriage in Australia. Gay marriage is marriage between two people of the same gender. I believe all Australians have the right to be able to get married despite what gender‚race and religion they’re. A basic human right is that every grown up has the right to marry but why is that only that a man and a woman can do so not man and man or woman and woman.Why is it that?If you love someone it shouldn’t matter what gender they’re but somehow it dose. At the moment
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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
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