Homosexuals are an integral part of the society. "Every second family in the country has a member who is essentially homosexual and many more people regularly have homosexual experiences."(stephen). Today, many gays and lesbians come out of the closet and demand the same rights that heterosexuals take for granted. The medical studies confirm that being gay is not a matter of choice or preference, but a deviation from normal sexuality that lies in genes and hardly can be changed. Homosexuals do not decide their own sexuality, nor do heterosexuals. Therefore, homosexual community should receive the same respect and civil rights as the heterosexual community, one of these rights being marriage.
             Homosexuality is a term created by 19th century. Theorist to describe a sexual and emotional interest in members of one's own sex. Today a person is often said to have a homosexual or a heterosexual orientation, a description intended t defuse some of the long-standing sentiment among many Westerners that homosexuality is immoral or pathological. Homosexual practices are not afforded any special moral or psychological significance in many other cultures. A survey of 190 societies around the world (1951) reported that homosexual practices were considered acceptable behavior in approximately 70% of them.
             The description of homosexuality as an orientation also suggests, as some contemporary theorist have argued, that boundaries between homosexual and heterosexual are not necessarily rigid. Some studies have indicated that most individuals have some erotic interest in both sexes, whether overt or not. The open interest of sex is known as bisexuality. Transsexuals are distinguished from homosexuality by the feeling that they are really members of the opposite sex. Male and female homosexuals are now commonly known as gays and lesbians, respectively.
             Many experts agree that homosexuality has existed as long as human beings themselves,...