Is Gay Marriage Wrong

Gay Marriage: Is it Right or is it Wrong? Ever since I’ve been a small child, I have been taught that same-sex marriage is immoral. Same-sex marriage was recently legalized in every state in the United States on June 26, 2015. Some people think that gay marriage is in the race for equality and everyone should be able to marry whoever they please, no matter their gender. On the other hand, other people think gay marriage is immoral and should not be taking place. People argue that our laws should not be based off the Bible, but gay marriage is wrong because for centuries the Bible has stated how gay marriage is immoral. Same-sex marriage has been a controversial issue for a long time. On June 26, 2013 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Windsor vs. United States that section three of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional (1). This means that the DOMA stated that gay couples could not get married. As a result of this being ruled unconstitutional, on June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court announced that they granted the cert to for marriage equality cases from the states in the sixth circuit(1). Therefore, gay couples can now be married in every state. …show more content…
A child whose parents are of the same sex will be deprived of either a mother or father role model (5). This would mean they could be lacking the kind of love and affection that only a mother or father could give. In addition to this, if spouses want a child they must circumvent nature by costly and artificial means, employ surrogates, or adopt (5). All in all this would mean that when parents of the same sex are ready for parenthood, they would have to go through several expensive procedures to start their journey in parenthood. As a result of all of this evidence, same-sex marriage can negatively affect the parents and children of that