Does homosexuality harm the institution of marriage?

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Does homosexuality harm the institution of marriage? YES! The institution of marriage is unique. It is the one institution that binds women and men together to form a family, and this serves broad societal purposes.
“Homosexual activists argue that same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue similar to the struggle for racial equality in the 1960s.” (Richie, 2014) This is false. First of all, sexual behavior and race are virtually different realities. A man and a woman wanting to marry may by different in their characteristic: one may be black, the other white; one rich, the other poor; or one tall, the other short. None of these differences are impassable barrier to marriage. The two individuals are still man and woman, and thus the requirements of nature are respected. Same-sex marriage opposes nature. Two individuals of the same sex, no matter what their race, wealth, stature, knowledge or fame, will never be able to marry because of an impassable biological impossibility. (Ritchie, 2014)
The reason why the homosexuality harm the institution of marriage is it is not marriage. What marriage is? Marriage is a union of a man and woman that is oriented toward the good of the mate and the reproduction and education of offspring. Since before recorded history, men and women have united to care for each other and to bring up children. That happens in every culture, no matter where in the world. Marriage is a privilege, not a right. Society can choose to endorse certain types of sexual arrangements and give support in the form of benefits to these arrangement. Marriage was created to allow society to support heterosexual couples in procreation and society can choose not to give the same benefits to same-sex couples. If “marriage” is red...

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...tion of marriage? Since it cannot produce children to further the society and break the “rules” of marriage, common sense would tell us that homosexuality is danger to institution of marriage.

References

Debate.org. 2014. Would the right for homosexuals to marry affect straight marriage?. [online] Available at: http://www.debate.org/opinions/would-the-right-for-homosexuals-to-marry-affect-straight-marriage [Accessed: 22 Feb 2014].

Ritchie, T. S. A. 2014. 10 Reasons Why Homosexual “Marriage” is Harmful and Must be Opposed. [online] Available at: http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/politically-incorrect/homosexuality/10-reasons-why-homosexual-marriage-is-harmful-and-must-be-opposed.html [Accessed: 22 Feb 2014].

Sprlgg, P. 2014. Family Research Council. [online] Available at: http://www.frc.org/issuebrief/the-top-ten-harms-of-same-sex-marriage [Accessed: 22 Feb 2014].

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