Legalizing Gay Marriage (resubmission) Imagine you’ve met the love of your life‚ but he’s slowly dying from a terminal illness. He doesn’t have medical insurance and can’t afford the operation that will help him recover. If he dies‚ all his belongings would go to his brother and sister. You can’t even visit him in the hospital because you aren’t married. But the thing is‚ you can’t get married because both of you are of the same sex‚ and the state you live in does not allow same-sex marriage. This
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Why Gay Marriage should be legalized Why is it okay for a criminal to get married but two completely innocent people of the same gender can’t? According to the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia‚ marriage is a basic human right and same-sex marriages should be treated equally. Just because you believe same sex marriage goes against your religion is not a fair argument because everyone has different beliefs. You ask why it should be legalized but I ask why should someone be able to chose who marries
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would you feel if you had to live the rest of your life without being allowed to marry the one you love? I believe that gay marriage should be legalized. Gay marriage should be legalized because it is uncivilized. According to the constitution‚ every American is entitled to happiness. If homosexual people cannot be married to the person they love‚ it violates their freedoms. Why should other people be able to choose who marries who? If a man and a woman get married‚ no one seems to care. They are
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Should gay marriage be legal? 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 the sex of its object or the person who experiences it. The first reason why same sex marriage
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The debate on gay marriage and why it should be legal Section 1/ Government Should gay marriage be legalized in America? Nick Askin Content- ?/ English-? 2013 PRO GAY MARRIAGE As stated in the Constitution of the United States of America‚ “All men are created equal”. However this is not the case in society today. How would you feel to not be able to marry the person you love? Unfortunately the marriage between two people of the same sex is not recognized by the law and society in most states
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“Marriage is one of the basic building blocks of our neighborhoods and our nation‚” states Theodore B. Olson in “The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage”. If this is true then why is it so important to some individuals that couples of the same sex should not be able to spend their lives happily together in marriage? Why is accepted that two people of the opposite sex can get married? What’s the difference? The simple fact is that there is no difference and there should be no laws restricting gays and
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Should Gay Marriage Be Legal? The same-sex marriage has been a controversial issue for a long time. Same-sex marriage should be legalized because it is a large part of their civil rights. One of our civil liberties is the pursuit of happiness. Homosexual people cannot be married to the person they love and it violates their freedom. Same-sex marriage has always been looked upon as wrong for one reason or another. Everyone has strong opinions towards gay marriage. The point is‚ it shouldn’t
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before. Now‚ gay men and women fight for the right to be married. In Christianity‚ marriage is a life long commitment under god. It is well known to many Christians that practicing homosexuality is a major sin. How can a union‚ which is created for man and woman‚ under god‚ bond two partners of the same sex if it is stated in god’s book that it is morally wrong? Homosexuals should be allowed to make a lifetime commitment to their partners‚ but it should be called something other than marriage and should
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debating on whether it should be legal for homosexuals to get married. Margaret Court wrote an article in the herald sun 25 January‚ 2012‚ contending that allowing same sex marriage would be a “steep moral decline” and is a purely a religious institution. She argues that people get trapped in a pattern of saying something is right when deep down they know it isn’t‚ she believes that a person’s sexuality is a choice‚ and that we need to protect the sanctity of marriage. She directs these arguments towards
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There have been many arguments over the years against same-sex marriage. “Marriage should only be between a man and a woman.” “It’s a sin.” “If we allow gay people to marry‚ what will we have to allow next?” All of these are not very convincing arguments if you ask me. There are a lot of people that go to great lengths to prevent this from becoming legal and my question is: Why do they care so much about what other people do with their lives? Everyone should have the right to marry whoever they love;
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