Gay Marriage: Yes or no?
"'We deal with a right to privacy older than the Bill of Rights - older than our political parties, older than our school system. Marriage is a coming together for better or worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. It is an association that promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in our prior decisions...'" ( Justice Douglas in Sullivan, xvii) It has been said, especially recently, that marriage should be specifically and exclusively between a man and a woman. And that gay marriage would desecrate the sanctity of marriage. Gay marriages would do nothing of the sort; in fact, allowing gays to marry would strengthen the ideals of marriage. There are many countries around the world that have allowed gay marriages, as well as a couple of states, more specifically cities, here in the good ole U.S.A. People make a big deal out of gays marrying, especially in the new millennium; but in the past gays marriages were not made out to be wrong or immoral.The Republican Senator Rick Santorum (Pennsylvania) "said that allowing
Recently, a court in Hawaii sat down to hear all of the arguments against gay marriage, and, surprisingly enough, the arguments did not withstand. The idea that any marriage will strengthen any society probably had not occurred to President Bush. The quote from Senator Rick Santorum helped to jump start my thinking by making me ask why gay marriage would "devalue" (Bush amendment) marriage in general and from there my thoughts blossomed. " (Sullivan, 36) Women's work consisted of cooking, cleaning, gathering, and raising children. After Denmark the rest of Scandinavia followed suit as well as Belgium. And yet two other rituals were just like a regular marriage with the exception that the husband (the man paying the "brideprice" (Sullivan 27) was marrying a boy for a wife or "husband" (Sullivan 36) (the wealth and, or barren woman) would marry a young girl for a wife to give the "husband" (Sullivan 36) children. It is an association that promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects.
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