You have fallen head over heels in love with your partner and you can not, imagine not being with him or her for the rest of your life so the two of you decide to take it to the next step. You join together in front of your family and friends and state your love for each other and then the two of you are joined together as one in holy marriage. Once your ceremony is over, you are able to enjoy life as all other married couples do and share medical benefits from work and know that each of you are able to make important decisions for and about each other. Although all of this sounds simple, it is another story when you and your partner happen to be of the same sex. Because of one's preference to be with someone of the same-sex, one is denied the privileges and the act of marriage.
             Legalizing gay marriage is the long-overdue correction; failure to do so dehumanizes and excludes a significant portion of the human race ("Separate"). When someone says the word marriage most people imagine a man and a woman being joined together not two of the same sex. James Wilson, gay activist, states that the social stigmata attached to homosexuality is different from that attached to any other race or ethnicity-"because it attacks the very heart of what makes a human being human: the ability to love and be loved" (34). Homosexuals do not choose their condition; indeed, they often try desperately hard to avoid it ("Let"). And just as anyone else they need
             emotional and economic stability no less than heterosexuals ("Let"). But to grant homosexuals all of the substances of marriage and then deny them the rights is just not moral ("Separate"). James Wilson points out that taking away these rights just because of one's sexual preference shows that the modern society resists homosexual marriages entirely out of irrational prejudice (34).
             Sharon Driedger comments that gays and lesb...