Since the beginning of time, people have fought over their different opinions. With different opinions, there are bound to be a lot of arguments. Some of the arguments can be big or small, and other arguments people do not like to speak of. One of the most confidential is the right for LGBT communities right to be able to get married. This is an ongoing problem that needs to be settled one way or another. It is a problem that is all over the world, “religious communities around the world take a range of positions on homosexuality, from acceptance to prohibition” (Karaim). It could be in favor of the LGBT community or it could be in favor of the religious community. There have been several laws passed on both sides, the LGBT community and the
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There are laws that a for the LGBT community and there are laws against the LGBT community. When one law is made there is always a new one to repel the old ones. Some laws such as the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 lets the government treat same sex couples like they are not even married. Other laws make same sex couples pay heavy taxes and same sex couples are not allowed to have marriage benefits like opposite sex couples. An example of these taxes is about “Windsor [who] got bitter news later in the form of federal and New York estate tax bills totaling $600,000 that would not have been levied on an opposite-sex couple” (Jost). There is another law that was passed six months after it was ruled that banning same sex couples was unconstitutional, and it was called Proposition 8. Same sex couples are trying to get “the justices to strike down California's Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in the state just six months after a court ruled that preventing gays and lesbians from marrying was unconstitutional” (Jost). These laws cause a constant race to create and destroy laws; that deal with the ability for same sex couples to get married and for the people who believe that same sex marriage is wrong to refuse that
There are laws that a for the LGBT community and there are laws against the LGBT community. When one law is made there is always a new one to repel the old ones. Some laws such as the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 lets the government treat same sex couples like they are not even married. Other laws make same sex couples pay heavy taxes and same sex couples are not allowed to have marriage benefits like opposite sex couples. An example of these taxes is about “Windsor [who] got bitter news later in the form of federal and New York estate tax bills totaling $600,000 that would not have been levied on an opposite-sex couple” (Jost). There is another law that was passed six months after it was ruled that banning same sex couples was unconstitutional, and it was called Proposition 8. Same sex couples are trying to get “the justices to strike down California's Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in the state just six months after a court ruled that preventing gays and lesbians from marrying was unconstitutional” (Jost). These laws cause a constant race to create and destroy laws; that deal with the ability for same sex couples to get married and for the people who believe that same sex marriage is wrong to refuse that