Gay MarriagesEssay Preview: Gay MarriagesReport this essayGay marriages have been a hug debate in recent elections for the past years. Gay marriages have caused much uproar for people all around the world. Then there are those who simply do not care. Marriage is a sacred union that is the legal joining of two people of the same sex. Gay marriages are the legal joining of two people of the opposite sex. Many religious groups are not excepting of the fact that two men or women want to join together in what is known to most as holy matrimony. Gay marriages is a very serious issue; many accept it, reject it, and many others elect to just ignore it.
People that oppose gay marriages are mostly those with strong religious beliefs. These people believe that marriage should not be of those of the same sex. They argue that it is an unnatural act. The religious people who state the bible does not encourage or say those two men or two women should join in a union together are judging them and that is not their job to do. I have heard many religious believers quote that God created Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve or Amy and Eve. Many others stand behind them and agree.
Gays, who have decided that they want to marry their life partners, say that love has no sex, gender, or race. The Gay community would argue that the people who claim to be so holy and religious and are against Gay marriages are not really living right because the bible states that we are not to judge others, God will judge them on judgement day. Many people live with hatred in their hearts towards gays. What makes hatred right when Christian say gay marriages are wrong? The gay community advocate that says deserves the same rights as heterosexual couples. Gays argue that they are denied benefits on both the state and federal levels; such as health care, hospital visitation rights social security benefits and the ability to file joint taxes.
The Religious Right and Anti-Religious Americans
Christian right has not always given up these religious sentiments. When same-sex marriage was the law of the land the First Amendment was not mentioned in favor of a constitutional right or even a right that could be challenged.
Today Christians may not accept that they may or may not even be able to claim that it was ever about marriage. As noted earlier: the Right to be Free is no longer even mentioned in the Bill of Rights or a Constitutional amendment. Christian right does not allow marriage equality, only religion and no equal right or the rights of gays to the same as other Americans. Many Christians now take this position to justify their opposition to same-sex marriage in the minds of Christian right, but they are clearly not allowed to speak of this as a part of the Religious Right or anti-religious Americans.
The LGBT Lobby
There does not seem to be a “right” in the Constitution or Supreme Court that was ever passed. The Religious Right, who have said they believe in marriage equality, have a long history of claiming that there is no such thing as marriage equality. A gay marriage is only a right, only an act of God, not a law that requires it. A religious right has asserted both rights and protections for same-sex couples, no matter when people say they are just about to marry same-sex couples. This is a long history of Christians being able to claim that same-sex marriages are a right regardless of social, political, religious or even political issues or beliefs. They have not.
The “LGBT” side has been trying to assert the “right” of same-sex couples to marry since at least the turn of the century, but never really got the chance to do so. Their attempt to argue that people who are gay and lesbian are just “wrong” or should not be allowed to have marriage rights have been largely unsuccessful in the end, and perhaps even lost the battle in the courts. In 2000, the “LGBT” side asserted that same-sex couples would not have to pay taxes, should they have paid taxes after 2002. Well guess what? In 2008, when same-sex marriage was passed in Virginia, the same argument was put to rest for a couple of years.
When the law was passed, only five men out of 11 men who were married legally in the past five years were allowed to marry in the state. At the time of passing the law, only a handful more than 2.5 percent of the men in Virginia made this claim, despite the fact that the total number of marriages to people who are LGBT in Virginia was more than 3 million: 1.5 million in 1987. In 2011, an additional 2 million were married legally.
Gay rights law is designed to promote the advancement of same-sex marriage. It is not a law designed to make same-sex marriages legal. Same-sex marriage is designed to promote the advancement of their religious