Legalization Of Gay Marriage Essay

The topic of gay marriage has been widely controversial over the years. Proponents of legal gay marriage believe that gay marriage bans are discriminatory and unconstitutional. They believe that all humans are entitled to equal rights regardless of their sexual orientation. Opponents believe that marriage is traditionally defined as being between one man and one woman and its primary purpose is for procreation. Although the US Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is a protected right by the US Constitution, there are still many countries around the world that punish homosexual acts with prison time, torture and even death. Denying same sex couples the legal right of marriage is denying humans their basic rights, I am in favor of the legalization …show more content…
The legalization of gay marriage from a government and lawful perspective should not and does not infringe upon the beliefs of any religion. The government does not decide or have a vote on which religion the people should or should not believe in. It is the responsibility of most governments to the citizens of their country to protect the rights of their law-abiding, tax paying citizens. The legalization of gay marriage should only ever be a legal issue and should never have religious questioning as a basis for …show more content…
Being given the opportunity to see the opposing sides, their support, and the statistics to back their views, or lack thereof, has opened my eyes to the amount of closed minded people we have inhabiting this planet. It is amazing to see what lengths one will go to deny simple human rights. The same rights that these deniers take for granted every single day. It is controversial issues such as these that we can only hope people educate and begin to open their minds about. We cannot logically create an opinion towards an issue if we come into it with a bias point of