Marriage, as defined by Webster's dictorionary is as follows: "the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law (2) : the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage. " So, as we can see marriage, in other words, is defined as the unification of two people, who love each other and want to spend the rest of their lives together. Who you love is not a choice, it's something that just happens, and people should not be denied to show their love just because they happen to love someone their own sex.
             Marriage is the ultimate expression of love, of promise, and of commitment. It says that the person you chose to marry is the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, the person you want to trust and share everything with. We are lucky nowdays to be living in a modern society which lets you choose who to marry, unlike the Middle Ages, where arranged marriages usually just ended up with an old man married to a girl who was barely out of her teens and could not possibly know what she wanted to do with her life, let alone who to share the rest of her life with. But then comes the question of gay marriage. Isn't marriage supposed to be about two people who love each other? So what difference does it make if it's a gay or straight marriage? It's still love.
             There seems to be certain excuses no to allowed these marriages. First of all, there's that dreaded disease we all know about: AIDS. But you can't blame AIDS on gay marriages. AIDS is passed on by drug users too. A statistic in South America shows that a married woman has more risk of contacting AIDS than a prostitute, due to her husband's promiscous relationships. But protection is banned religiously (although, until recently, the Catholic Church is now permitting the use of cond
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