Being looked down on by society is a feeling that no human should ever have to endure. The LGBT community has suffered for decades because they couldn’t marry the one they wanted to. Nevertheless, love is an emotion that should not be restricted, because it is a privilege denied to many for different reasons. If one should be lucky enough to find the right one to share a life with, no one should have the right to interfere in that relationship/union. Strong religious beliefs and traditional values play a gigantic role when it comes to those who are against it. What will they get in the end? A guaranteed pass to Heaven when they are doing the complete opposite of what God has created us to do. He created us to love one another not bash one
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Proponents such as myself feel that same-sex marriage should be legalized because as our natural born rights as U.S citizens, it would only make sense that we should be allowed to marry whomever we want; however, opponents feel that same-sex marriage is not only an abomination to society, but to God; moreover a solution to this issue would have to be that people need to be accepting towards ones’ norm of …show more content…
In the article entitled “Re-thinking Civil Unions and Same-Sex Marriage”, Sadler states, “Opponents of same-sex marriage, whether or not they support civil unions, are similarly anxious to protect the special status of marriage, which they believe requires preserving its exclusively heterosexual form.” (Sadler 578). Marriage to opponents is a man with a woman not a man with another man or vice versa. They feel as if they keep holding on to their traditional values or religious beliefs they are doing the right thing by keeping marriage a sacred bond only shared between the opposite sex. In reality all that they are doing is keeping others from loving one another and it shouldn’t be that way love is love. “Whatever their attitudes about homosexuality might be, opponents of same- sex marriage may be right to think that the practice and institution of marriage would be fundamentally undermined by same-sex marriage.” (Saddler 585). If same-sex marriage were to be legalized, opponents will slowly see their religious beliefs and traditional values change before their eyes. What was once their ideal marriage of a nice home with a housewife and a white picket fence will now be corrupted by same-sex
Proponents such as myself feel that same-sex marriage should be legalized because as our natural born rights as U.S citizens, it would only make sense that we should be allowed to marry whomever we want; however, opponents feel that same-sex marriage is not only an abomination to society, but to God; moreover a solution to this issue would have to be that people need to be accepting towards ones’ norm of …show more content…
In the article entitled “Re-thinking Civil Unions and Same-Sex Marriage”, Sadler states, “Opponents of same-sex marriage, whether or not they support civil unions, are similarly anxious to protect the special status of marriage, which they believe requires preserving its exclusively heterosexual form.” (Sadler 578). Marriage to opponents is a man with a woman not a man with another man or vice versa. They feel as if they keep holding on to their traditional values or religious beliefs they are doing the right thing by keeping marriage a sacred bond only shared between the opposite sex. In reality all that they are doing is keeping others from loving one another and it shouldn’t be that way love is love. “Whatever their attitudes about homosexuality might be, opponents of same- sex marriage may be right to think that the practice and institution of marriage would be fundamentally undermined by same-sex marriage.” (Saddler 585). If same-sex marriage were to be legalized, opponents will slowly see their religious beliefs and traditional values change before their eyes. What was once their ideal marriage of a nice home with a housewife and a white picket fence will now be corrupted by same-sex