Marriage is both ubiquitous and central. All across our country‚ in every region‚ every social class‚ every race and ethnicity‚ every religion or non-religion‚ people get married. For many if not most people‚ moreover‚ marriage is not a trivial matter. It is a key to the pursuit of happiness‚ something people aspire to—and keep aspiring to‚ again and again‚ even when their experience has been far from happy. To be told “You cannot get married” is thus to be excluded from one of the defining rituals
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Legalizing Gay Marriage In The United States Gay marriage is a highly debated argument in the United States. Many people think that everyone should have the ability to get married. However the U.S supreme court ruled 5-4 0n Friday‚ June 26‚ 2015 that it is legal for all Americans‚ no matter their gender or sexual orientation‚ to marry the people they love. Gay marriage should not be legalized in the United States because it is not marriage. It offends God and denies a child either a mother or a
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Why Teens Shouldn’t Diet Dieting can be defined as restricting calories or food groups (Deal with Diets: kidshealth.org). With the number of obese people growing‚ it’s no wonder that people are starting to diet‚ and "in 1988‚ Americans spent 32 billion dollars on diets and diet products (Baird: Women’s Health Fact Sheet)." A problem arises when teens start restricting their food‚ because dieting can be very harmful to a teenager’s still-developing body. It can also be harmful to the teen’s psychological
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Negative | Affirmative | The institution of marriage has traditionally been defined as between a man and a woman. In the Oct. 15‚ 1971 decision Baker v. Nelson (186 KB) ‚ the Supreme Court of Minnesota found that "The institution of marriage as a union of man and woman‚ uniquely involving the procreation and rearing of children within a family‚ is as old as the book of Genesis.” | Varnum v. Brien‚ 763 N.W.2d 862 (Iowa 2009)‚ is a unanimous decision of the Iowa Supreme Court dated April 3‚ 2009
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Should Gay Couples be Aloud to Marry Gay marriages are currently illegal in the Unites States. The prohibition of gay marriages is wrong because it is a prominent form of discrimination. Not only are homosexuals denied of their civil rights‚ they are also denied of economic and legal benefits. No government should be able to legally prohibit someone from showing their love for another person‚ it simply does not uphold the basic principles of the constitution. Ending marital discrimination
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brought too many people’s attention. People have different ideas on why it should not be legal. What about the people who think it should? The religion someone believes‚ how people think it will affect children’s lives‚ and that thinking that marriage is just for a man and a woman only does not matter. Love is love‚ so why cannot same-sex couples make their love legal like everyone else? One main reason why some people don’t like gay people relationships is because of their religion is against it
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anywhere and can be smoke to experience relaxation. Marijuana should be legal to the people of America because this is a free country and if the vote is more than fifty percent that means the majority of people want it to be legal. The people of America should not hide the use of marijuana any longer. Using marijuana should not be frowned upon because it has never killed a single human being. If this drug has not killed anyone then why is it still illegal? Tobacco and alcohol have killed over 555‚000
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The issue of gay marriage stirs up controversy‚ which makes it a national problem. Although some states‚ and many people‚ now accept gay marriage‚ gays still face many obstacles. Now that gay marriage is allowed‚ the fight to legalize gay adoption grows. Even though the idea of gay couples has become more accepted across the United States‚ gays adopting children remains a major controversial issue. Occurring since American colonial times‚ adoption provides children for childless couples. Back then
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Marriage has always been a hot topic from interracial marriage to the current day controversy of homosexual marriage. Marriage has traditionally been defined as a union between a man and woman‚ but today this is not true. In recent weeks‚ homosexual marriage has been a contentious topic‚ with a Supreme Court case and many Americans rallying around this cause. Conservatives believe that homosexual marriage should be banned but currently nine states have legalized homosexual marriage. The conformist
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Ethics and Gay Marriage For many people today the topic of gay marriage creates ethical controversy. When dealing with matters concerning ethics people often have passionate feelings. Simply put‚ ethics are the concern of what is morally right or wrong. According to the author of the textbook‚ The Philosophical Journey‚ “in ethics‚ we are concerned with what we ought to do‚ what consequences ought to be achieved‚ and what sort of persons we ought to become.” (Lawhead 418) It is an issue that sparks
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