Should gay marriage be legalized?

Abstract

In this study, we are debating on the most controversial issue of these days, i.e. Gay Marriages. The focus of the research is on the legalization of gay marriage. The research also analyzes many aspects, which are in favor or against of Gay Marriages.

Should gay marriage be legalized?

Thesis Statement

Since marriage is between a man and a woman, and it is a sacrament ordain by God, should gay marriage be legalized?

Introduction

Many people find homosexual behavior immoral and do not want anything related to homosexuality to be accepted or endorsed in the U.S. The last thing the nation needs, say social conservatives, is for the institution of marriage to be further trivialized and moved away from its roots at a time when traditional family values are already under assault in contemporary culture. However, gay-rights advocates claim that marriage should be about love and commitment between two people, regardless of their sex or sexual orientation. They say that providing gay and lesbian couples with the same legal entitlements as heterosexual couples poses no risk to society or to heterosexuals (Cloud, 2008).

Moreover, it gets contend that civil marriage provides heterosexual couples and their recognized families with many legal and economic benefits that should not be denied to homosexual couples, many of whom also raise families together. Supporters of gay marriages claim that society should define family and marriage in terms of people who care deeply about one another rather than use restrictive and outdated definitions of what families ought to look like. The government, they say, should encourage all kinds of committed, long-term relationships, including homosexual ones. In this study, we are debating on the most controversial issue of these days, i.e. gay marriages (Cloud, 2008). The focus of the research is on the legalization of gay marriage. The research also analyzes many aspects, which are in favor or against of Gay Marriages.

Discussion

Some Americans believe that allowing gay marriage to be legal will ruin the sanctity of straight marriage. Forty percent of American first marriages will end in divorce, second marriage divorce rate is sixty percent and third marriages divorce rates are seventy-three percent (Divorce Rate). People get intoxicated in Las Vegas get married then divorce the next day. This is ruining the sanctity of marriage. Marriage is supposed to be when two people decide they want to spend the rest of their lives together (Curtis, 2008). According to Divorce Rate, in Spain, gay marriage divorce rates are less than seven percent. This just shows that in no way are they ruining marriage. These people want to be married just as much straight people.

“Gay marriage is unnatural.” This quote is a common argument in America as to why gay marriage should be not is allowed. For most people, heterosexual relationships are the norm, both in society and in nature (Colbert, 2007). Many of these arguments stem from people saying that you would never see a dog or lion having homosexual relationships. However, homosexual activity and homosexual relationships can be found ...