Gays Have a Right to Marry

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Gays Have a Right to Marry

Every teen faces that time when their parent or parents choose to tell them about sex. Well, what if it happened that instead of sex your parents chose to tell you about the injustice of not letting people in the gay community marry. If this was to happen, then there would be a better understanding of gay relationships and their want to get married. This would more then likely lead to the ending of the ban on gay marriages.

In his essay “Let Gays Marry”, Andrew Sullivan, who happens to be a homosexual male, tells of how he feels that gays should not be denied the privilege of marriage. In the essay Sullivan says ”It’s the same reason anyone wants to get married” about why gays want the right to marry. He feels that if you find the person you love enough to be with for the rest of your life you should be allowed to marry them. “And we want to commit to that person in front of our family and country for the rest of our lives. It’s the most simple, the most natural, the most human instinct in the world. How could anyone seek to oppose that?”

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