Gay and Lesbian Marriage

Gay and Lesbian Marriage

Description of the Topic

The arguments on gay and lesbian marriage has become very famous and one of the most common characteristic of every society worldwide. The secularization of the word marriage has further led on to a juridical and political recognition of lesbian and gay marriages. Though there has been a conflict by the Catholic Church, as it draws a distinction between the religious and secular meaning of marriage. Now days there are two different schools of thoughts, both relating to theological contemporary and thinking. The main question that is still unanswered is that whether there is a valid set of theological ethics to lesbian and gay marriage or not. It has become a focal point globally and had led to many political movements and sympathizers. It is often argued that gay and lesbian marriages have become and end game to a never ending historical struggle which initiated with the discrimination against homosexuality.

Discussion

The debate on marriages is intense in most of the Western world. Among proponents are LGBT organizations and various socialist and liberal organizations. They believe that Article 12 of the European convention, which gives all citizens the right to marry, claiming marriage for two people of the same sex. Heterosexual and homosexual relationships should be equal before the law; It is unreasonable to require that a person must be unmarried to undergo sex change. Marriage for all prevent discrimination against homosexuals in the context of married persons and couples special treatment such as credit, inheritance, and so on and that legalization will not lead to any change for heterosexual couples (Wolfson, 2004).

Opponents are particularly conservative organizations. Some advocates registered partnership, while others believe that coexistence between people of the same sex is justified but should be unregistered, and others are opposed to all homosexual relationships. They believe that marriage among men and women in almost all cultures throughout the world, and that this, together with contemporary research suggests that marriage between man and woman is adapted to human biological nature. Same-sex marriage is contrary to the un convention as children as far as possible should grow up with both biological parents, something that becomes more complicated if one or both biological parents are married to a person of the same sex. Children are born only in a relationship between man and woman, and a relationship that can create a child would need a legal special status (and even having children generally would decrease dramatically because of gay marriage), marriage under the law including covers presumption of paternity, which is prohibitive to apply to two persons of the same sex (Tasker & Golombok, 1997).

Countries where marriage between persons of the same sex is legal means reduced opportunities for everyone to adopt from foreign countries. In most cultures defined the concept of marriage as a union between man and woman. Gender-neutral marriage could be open to child marriage and polygamy, or marriage to animals. Heterosexual people would stop marrying when they would ...