Same Sex Marriage: Love is Love

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Love is love. It does not matter if a person is gay, straight, or bisexual. The term marriage is derived from two people coming together in matrimony to form a bond between the two, in order to obtain mutual benefits federally and state wide, and to formalize the decision of two people to live as a married couple. The definition of marriage has been disputed for several decades, whether if it should be defined as a ceremony between a man and a women, or a ceremony between people of same-sex. Although, in the last couple of years, people have been fighting to legalize same-sex marriage federally. Throughout this last year and this year, several states have lifted the ban against same-sex marriage, and there are several more to come. This controversy is not an opinion; the freedom of marriage should be a right all people of the United States have.
There has been an on going war throughout history between the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. One of the first actions taken to promote gay marriages was, “In 1993, Hawaii’s Supreme Court was the first to rule that limiting marriage to heterosexuals was unconstitutional, though the state legislature later amended the state constitution to define marriage more clearly as a union between a man and a women ... [leading] a new trend in gay rights activism that Congress felt the need to come involved.” (Bronski). In 1996 President Bill Clinton outlawed the idea and definition that marriage was a ceremony and that it legally united a man and a women, by signing the Defense of Marriage Act. In 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that the laws against the idea of same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution. When Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage on M...

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