Should Marriage for Same Sex Couples be Legal in United States?

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Marriage as generally define is the union between one man and one woman. However a recent debate over same-sex marriage has stirred a nationwide debate reverberating in the halls of Congress, at the White House, in dozens of state courtrooms and legislatures, and is also becoming a speech-making topic for election campaigns at both the national and state levels. As the debate for this controversial topic rages on, the American religious community view on the topic remains deeply divided over the matter and over the morality of homosexuality in general. Granting legal marriage right to gays and lesbians would primarily alter the idea of marriage, ignore a child’s right to a mother and father, and expands government control of marriage.

Although people in favor of same-sex marriage will make the argument that they want to be granted the legal right to same-sex marriage because they want to be in caring, stable relationships, and they want to start a family with someone. I think their argument can be considered to be a flaw for the simple reason that they are not able to come up with convincing reasons as how same-sex marriage will not just be for their benefit, but it impact on children and marriage in the society as a whole. If legal rights to same-sex marriage is granted to gays and lesbians it would weaken the traditional family values. Marriage is considered as the building blocks of our society and the traditional marriage of man, woman, and children is what make our society strong and keeps it going. For the fact that marriage is an institution that all the States inherited rather than created, the states should therefore not create new or different laws for an institution that predates even before the creation of Americ...

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...ows same sex couples to adopt a child, surely as long as the natural parents of the offspring are not willing or unable to raise the child, I do not oppose to the same sex couples adopting the child. Nevertheless, I still believe that heterosexual couples should be allowed to adopt the abandoned child rather than same sex couples. This is because heterosexual couples are more likely to better simulate upon the heterosexual union that produced the child. My argument is not based on empirically, that heterosexual couples are necessarily better at raising children than same sex couples, but I am making the argument on the concept of what is right and in the best interest of the child.

Works Cited

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2009/06/259http://pewforum.org/Gay-Marriage-and-Homosexuality/An-Argument-Against-Same-Sex-Marriage-An-Interview-with-Rick-Santorum.aspx

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