Marriage Matters Research Paper

One of the groups that oppose the amendment are Marriage Matters, their website contains several stories of people of a wide diversity of gays and lesbians as to why they want to marry. The mission of Marriage Matters is to educate people on the fact that homosexuals desire to be married for the same reasons as heterosexuals want to be married and denying them that right is against their civil rights. Marriage Matters claims that “allowing same-sex couples to marry does not change the meaning of marriage. It simply allows same-sex couples to marry the person they love, to establish and protect a family and to make a lifetime commitment in the same way that other couples are able to”. Also, educating people on how the alternative ways of marriage don’t work since “Domestic Partnership and Civil Union laws still don’t qualify a spouse or children for health care coverage that employers only extend through marriage”. In other words, same-sex couples are not eligible for …show more content…
I believe that the amendment goes against basic civil rights. I’ve reached that conclusion years ago actually. Despite that writing, this has caused me to still analyze why I believe the way I do. Although I am young and considered influential that is not the case in my decision. The issue revolving around same-sex marriage reminds me of similar discriminations against people based on their race and skin color. We as a society have grown beyond that and see the value of equality. If we discriminate someone based on their sexual preference then that is no different from discriminating against someone based on race. Acting like this can result in us repeating history and not growing as a society. The reason why I have reached this conclusion is due to the fact that I have been exposed to a diversity of people from a young age so growing up it never occurred to me that there was an issue on sexual preferences and races until later in