Gay Marriage Research Paper
Whether or not gay marriage should be legalized in the United States is an on going debate. I personally do not understand why it isn't legalized already; By not allowing homosexuals the right to marriage you are taking away their freedom of speech. It is not right to treat them with such inequality. Marriage should not be just between a man and a woman, if same-sax couples are in love and want to spend eternity together, they deserve the right to do so through marriage. Marriage comes along with many benefits that they are unable to recieve just because they are denied the right to marry. In the article, Gay Marriages: Should They Be Legalized? by Thomas B. Stoddard, he states that "Marriage is not just a symbolic state. It can be the
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I've never heard of a homosexual being against gay marriage and as a hetrosexual it is hard to understand exactly what they are feeling, so how could it be right for someone to tell you that you can not get married because you are gay, and you don't deserve the rights that all heterosexuals couples recieve. It just seems very unfair to me, especially when there is research and studies proving that you can be born gay. It has to be hard enough for homosexuals to "come out of the closet" in a society that is so heterosexual, but to take away there right of marriage just seems …show more content…
I cannot help but to completely disagree with her arguments to why gay marriage should not be legalized. She states that "tax benefits, inheritance rights, and employee benefits exist to help couples raise children" which may be very true, but there are many married heterosexual couples who cannot or chose not to have children that are recieving all these benefits. Therefore if gay couples cannot recieve these why should couples without children be able to? Many people argue that gay marriage is "anti-family" but how could this be true when gay couples can raise children whether it's through adoption or a surrogate. Just because you are gay does not mean you do not desire to have a family. Denying gay couples the right to recieve the benefits, makes it twice as hard for them to raise a
I've never heard of a homosexual being against gay marriage and as a hetrosexual it is hard to understand exactly what they are feeling, so how could it be right for someone to tell you that you can not get married because you are gay, and you don't deserve the rights that all heterosexuals couples recieve. It just seems very unfair to me, especially when there is research and studies proving that you can be born gay. It has to be hard enough for homosexuals to "come out of the closet" in a society that is so heterosexual, but to take away there right of marriage just seems …show more content…
I cannot help but to completely disagree with her arguments to why gay marriage should not be legalized. She states that "tax benefits, inheritance rights, and employee benefits exist to help couples raise children" which may be very true, but there are many married heterosexual couples who cannot or chose not to have children that are recieving all these benefits. Therefore if gay couples cannot recieve these why should couples without children be able to? Many people argue that gay marriage is "anti-family" but how could this be true when gay couples can raise children whether it's through adoption or a surrogate. Just because you are gay does not mean you do not desire to have a family. Denying gay couples the right to recieve the benefits, makes it twice as hard for them to raise a