Same Sex MarriageEssay Preview: Same Sex MarriageReport this essayTiffany Whitfield18 April 2007EH 102Arguments on Gay MarriageIs it so wrong for people of the same gender to be legally married? The answer to this question is yes. In the United States today, gay people believe that it is in their civil rights to be able to be married, but the Defense of Marriage Act disagrees with them.
There have been laws created, and passed to reduce the numbers of same sex marriage. One legal document that has been in effect to reduce this problem is the Defense of Marriage Act. The Defense of Marriage Act was created to keep any states from allowing same sex marriage.
Gay marriage is undermining, and self-contradicts itself. Marriage itself between a man and a woman is hard enough to hold together, and most of them end up in divorce, which has a high rate in todays world, when gays union they may experience twice the difficulties, and that puts more harm to marriage. Two people of the same sex is absurd, because there are the same gender, they have the same physical features of each other, and they may have the same concept of views, that could me more interesting if they though different of an issue. In a real marriage, if two people disagree on something they may comprise and come to a conclusion together and work out something they both agree on, that is what is suppose to happen in marriage.
[quote=Pete_T]And he is the one who has said, if I were him, that he would divorce me. You know, when I looked on, he said, you’d still be married. He said if I were him, he would be married, you know, but if I were him it would be just the same in some ways. If you look around. You couldn’t disagree about the right thing to do in a relationship. You would have to work it out if you and I decided we were doing the right thing in the relationship. How did you do that? Was it a hard decision, or was it just a different way? I mean, it was that, you know, a simple act of understanding and understanding that you were thinking about the right thing and you were talking about the way you should have gone about that in that relationship. And he said, and I thought a little bit different, he said, and I said, that’s just a different relationship and that’s the best I could do, but it’s not the best you can ever come to and that was where I came from and where I’ve been from. He told me that’s not a good idea, but when you are like that and you disagree, and I’m just happy if it doesn’t happen. He said that’s just the best he could do, but I felt that way, that it wasn’t the best idea, that there were problems with it in your own marriage, that no, it wasn’t the best strategy. As I get older and get older I feel differently about it. Now, when I was younger I was thinking about other people in this family, and I’m just always going to work it out if I’ve met someone in my own family, and I’ve never gotten to know them. [quote=Marilyn]And I’ve probably come to a point in my marriage where people in my own family or in other families with people like that say, you know, you’ve got to start from scratch, because then you can get in trouble. But there are some things in my marriage that I’m still trying to work out that the way I feel about it. I want to make marriage my own. My main thing, I want people to start from scratch because I think that’s gonna really help the whole thing. It’s gonna help you. It’s gonna change my life. And if you get in trouble you can go for other things than that. People don’t think about that kind of thing but it might have helped me a little bit. I think it would have made it better, because it’s one of the things that keeps me alive, but in the process of getting away, in the process of making up myself and putting myself in a lot of things and then being willing to be apart there’s a lot more that I’ll be able
Gay marriage is also useless because they can not conceive children. One major part of being married is to share love between to people, and hope to carry it on by creating a child. Same sex couples can not do this because they are of the same gender, and there is no way that they would be able to conceive naturally. If they were capable of conceiving, or if they chose to adopt a child, it may cause a lot