What is Marriage

             A Synthesis of Arguments on Same-Sex Marriage
             Throughout the past few years there has been a great amount of controversy on same-sex marriage. Here are four brief summaries on viewpoints of four different essays about the thoughts on same-sex marriage.
             In Lisa Bennett's essay, "Why Can't We Get Married?" she describes in great detail her feelings for another woman. Bennett's opinion is that love is a natural thing, no matter who it happens to be with (254). Bennett then goes into describing the way she felt the night she knew she loved her partner, "I kissed her and felt something rise in me that I have never could have predicted, a conviction, an irrepressible desire to say, I want to marry you" (255).
             Bennett feels as though the people with power over same-sex marriages do not understand the feelings of the people involved (255). Bennett explains, "I know they claim that our marriage would make a mockery of theirs; they warn that our families would cause the decline of the American family and they labeled our love immoral, disgusting, even dangerous" (255). She feels that "Love is Love," no matter how it happens, where it happens, or who it happens with (256).
             In the essay, "Gay Marriage, an Oxymoron," Lisa Schiffren is against same-sex marriage. She believes that marriage is a life long commitment between a man and a woman, in which they raise a family (257). In the essay, Schiffren thinks that homosexuality needs to be an open and understood topic in our society (257).
             Schiffren thinks that same-sex marriage is wrong because children help families of heterosexual couples grow together as a family (258). Even if a gay couple had a child, it would not be both parents creating this human being, and that would cause somewhat of an emotional distance. Her last thoughts on this are it is politically incorrect for this to be allowed (2
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