"A loving man and woman in a committed relationship can marry. Dogs, no matter what their relationship, are not allowed to marry. How should society treat gays and lesbians in committed relationships? As dogs or as humans?" (religioustolerance.org 2). This is one opinion of many gays and lesbians out there who want to be treated like equals and be able to marry the women or men that they love with the same rights as the heterosexual couples in the US. President Bush wants a constitutional amendment prohibiting gays from marrying each other. Marriage between the same sex should be legalized because they are equal to heterosexual couples and should be treated so, and because President Bush is banning same sex marriages for the wrong reasons.
             Those opposed to same-sex marriages say marriage is a union that can only exist between a man and a woman. Therefore, enlarging and altering the definition of marriage in order to include same-sex partners discriminates against heterosexual marriage and the family. This deprives them of their social and legal recognition as the fundamental and irreplaceable basis of society. Moreover, same sex weddings threaten the institution of marriage and thus society.
             The same sex is tired of civil unions and wants to have a marriage and the rights that heterosexual couples receive. The reason the same sex cannot marry, according to Mr. Bush, is that it would damage an important social institution. Yet the reverse is surely true. Gays want to marry precisely because they see marriage as important: they want the symbolism that marriage brings, the extra sense of obligation and commitment, as well as the social recognition. Allowing gays to marry would, if anything, add to social stability, for it would increase the number of couples that take on real, rather then simply passing, commitments. The weakening of marriage has been heterosexuals' doing, not gays' for it is their in...