Why Shouldn’t Gays be Allowed to Marry
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Why shouldn’t gays be allowed to marry. Ask that question and you will get many varied answers. But the fact is none of them hold water. "They won’t produce children." So what, straight couples will continue to produce children. "Gay marriages will put heterosexual marriages in jeapordy." What a crock, how can gays do that. Why not allow our fellow citizins all the rights they are entitled to under our constitution. Why wait until your son or daughter comes to you and says, Mom and Dad I’m gay. I hope I’m not mistaken to think that parents want their gay children to be treated equal to heterosexuals.
Marriage is a venture where two adults join together in mutual aspirations and establish an investment in the community and society. The fact that gays want to join this society and make the investment should be no surprise. The institution of marriage has widespread acceptance throughout the world, so why should society object to gays joining the community in its ideals. In fact they should not. Society should be happy to take them in.
Our American principles are based on the idea of all people having equal rights. Finally reaching that goal will be a milestone when gays can enjoy the prosperity and comfort of marriage the same as straight couples. The Declaration of Independence reads;
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty,and the pursuit of Happiness.
Laws and court decisions have made it clear that persons of all races, religions, and gender have equal rights under the law. It should be clear that the same protection applies to those who differ on their sexual orientation. I don’t understand the discrimination against good, hard working citizens on that basis. The only reason I can see is narrow closed minds.
Federal and state laws have given a few rights to gay couples but it varies from state to state and almost always denies gays the right to marry. We need all states to recognize the right of couples to marry regardless of gender.
The United States Supreme Court has held that marriage is a fundamental right we have under the constitution. It’s our fundamental right to form a social partnership, to create a lasting bond with the person we love. Marriage is recognized by the government as a privileged and respected status, entitled to the state’s support and benefits. What then, is the reason to deny any of our citizens the right to that status? The reasons I hear given are not convincing.
Preventing gays from marrying is certainly not going to hurt the birth rate. Heterosexuals are going to continue to have children. That idea cannot be taken seriously. We don’t prevent prison inmates, old people, or those who don’t intend to have children from marrying. And I don’t see how gay marriages can hurt heterosexual marriages. I’ve yet to hear that one explained.
The simple fact is, there is no good reason to prevent gays from marrying. It’s their right under the Constitution. No matter what your opinion is, a good percentage of our doctors, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, policemen, fire fighters, soldiers, librarians,and persons of any profession you can think of are gay. They are our sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and our children. Let’s give them all a break and include them in the family.
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I believe gays should be allowed to marry…anyone of the opposite sex of their choice.
A controversial topic. I respect your opinion Ruby but I disagree. In my view being gay or lesbian isn’t a sign of normality. It’s totally against the nature. It is a mental malady and needs a mental medicine. Every possible effort should be made to rehabilitate such persons instead of doing things to increase this abnormality further.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being gay and allowed to marry. We have cases here, normal people, a women and man who neglect or abusive to their children, and we have those gay couples who adopt children and taken really good care of them, so it doesn’t matter whether they are gay or not. It’s all depend on the individual.
Whether a heterosexual couple decide to have children or not, the man has a penis and the woman has a vagina. They can make a baby if they want to if there are no other physical issues. Two men and two women cannot make a baby. This makes a relationship between a man and a woman very different from a relationship between two men and two women and I think this must be recognized. Calling a union between a man and a woman marriage recognizes this special relationship. Gay couples should have all of the responsibilities and benefits of marriage but don’t call it marriage because their genitals can not do what a man and a woman’s genitals can do. For me this is the crucial difference.
I absolutely agree with Guy Hogan. But also calling a union between to men or two women “marriage” also doesn’t discomfort me at all, as the word is not the point.
Interesting article.
Interesting, I hold a very different view and will therefore hold my peace.
Marriages existed long before the USA and long before Christianity. There is no reason I can think of for not allowing gays to marry.
God created a man and a woman and put them into the garden of Eden. This was Gods plan for human unionization. The serpant has been trying to interupt that union ever since.
I agree with Snooky. God never planned this. I think sometimes people become gay because someone hurt them badly. I know of several cases where this happened. These people were straight before someone severly hurt them.
I controversial article to read. But I do believe God created only man and woman. Marriage is a holy sacrament and be respected but few people now a days they make it as a game of life.
The question of gay marriage I feel is not the biggest issue here. The issue will come when a married gay couple adopts and raises a child. What other rights are they going to push for. Will the gay parents determine which sexual orientation their child is going to be? If so, how will that affect the demographic of heterosexuals in the distant future? We are talking about dozens of gay communities here and not just a handful of people. So everyone have to put a lot of thought into this. Gays have their rights but heterosexuals must not forget their rights either.
I believe gays should be allowed to marry, Ruby, for me, it is as simple as that.
Some times am forced to think the end times are closing in on us immeditely we begin to talk of men marrying men and not women!.
Nicely written, Ruby. I’m with you on this one. When one of your children tells you, “Hey, I’m gay”, you don’t want that child to be forever alone, forbidden the kind of companionship heterosexuals are granted. As for adoption or nurturing of children, I’m honestly not sure a homosexual couple could do a much worse job of parenting than some heterosexual households. In fact, I rather doubt that sexual orientation has much to do with ability to nurture.
I have no problem with gay couples wanting to marry. In UK we have civil partnerships, this provides all the rights of marriage without calling it marriage. I think there is no good reason why they should not have the same civil ceremony as a hetrosexual marriage. A religious ceremony is a different matter, I wouldn’t have a problem with it but some religions/denominations would be unhappy about this.
Ruby, interesting topic. However, I do not agree. I believe that God sanctioned marriage to be between a man and a woman.
Same sex couples can provide themselves with other methods to settle legal matters if necessary. It could be a legal binding contract – not marriage!
No one should be allowed to get a marriage license for their own legal protection! It’s an institution of modern slavery. But, if two people insist on doing this to themselves, that’s their business.
Being gay is unnatural. Like eye glasses.
God doesn’t want different races to get married. I mean same genders. Whoops.
I love how people want to shrink government just small enough to fit in our bedrooms. The banning of gay marriage is one of those things that future Americans will look back on in disgust. Like the FBI with McCarthyism.
I can’t believe that these sort of things are still an issue. The fear around these debates is just completely stupid.
You have certainly stirred up some controversy with this post, Ruby. Gay marriage has been legalised here in the UK, so we have to accept it. I am not sure I am wholly in favour of it though.
Christine
I totally agree with Guy Hogan.
Our minds cannot accept something different, this is the truth down the ages, changes will come slowly.I have no specific opinion, Itoo have to evolve…
This was a very interesting article. I believe that we should all have the right to marry. You can’t help who you fall in love with and you should be able to marry them if that’s what you want.
My husband and I have many wonderful gay friends and I think they should be allowed to marry and have the same rights.You are a brave women to write this article, God bless you, my friend, as you seem to remember Gods loves us all.
God created man and woman to be together and I agree with that. On the other side, I have many friends who are gay and I would love to see them happy if they find the one person they want to spend their life with. Very good article as always Ruby!
You should be able to mary the person that you love. even if the person is the same sex, that shouldn’t matter. Marrige is just a sign of two people love each other being bonded together to a family thats all so I don’ think it should matter…By the way I found a website that give you prizes for your opinions and 4 play games here is the topic about this:http://opinion.ezwingame.com/topics/should-gay-people-be-allowed-to-marry
Simple fact. Not every one believes in the bible therefore not every one believes that “God” created man and woman to be together. Look at every other species in the animal kingdom homosexuality is a real NATURAL thing. Stop trying to make laws based on your religious beliefs. If you do not think gay people should be able to marry well then don’t be gay and don’t try to marry someone of the same sex. The ignorance in this country is disgusting and I hope that it changes before I have children. I would never want to explain to my child why some people are denied rights that everyone else takes for granted.
I guess my question for all the comments out there is, “If someone called you unnatural, how would you respond?” We’re all natural. We were all born. Blue eyes/Brown eyes, White/Black, Gay/Straight. They should add that to the genetics labs in biology class. We look at homosexuality as though it’s taboo. Sex is taboo and even that is natural. This is America. Land of the free, home of the brave. Openness about homosexuality shouldn’t be an outrage, mostly because it’s not a big deal, but also because people have been fighting for their rights for a long time. Are we really going to make it difficult for gays as we did with blacks and women? Let’s skip over embarrassing ourselves and let’s stop letting the world stay ahead of us socially. Love comes in all forms and when someone finds their soulmate, that’s just the way it is. Love is love. God couldn’t make being gay unnatural because, one, there are many homosexuals on this Earth, and two, it has to do with who we love. Homosexuality does not define a person. Gays may be followed by negative statistics because of the oppression they’ve endured the same way African-Americans were and still are. If we can let them love fully and equally, we will fulfill their lives and acceptance of new lifestyles will open us up to how many possibilities for love and trust there really are. I don’t think I needed to make a case, but I haven’t ever said how I feel about this issue. This is an issue far less troubling than the rate of illiteracy in our country or anything else for that matter. If we keep an open mind and listen to the other side, maybe not agree, but listen, we can understand our world. We’re small and we don’t know much, but we can learn, we can understand a lot, and we can love the most.