Gay marriage should be legalized because it is uncivilized and unmerited. Our civil rights and the Constitution give us many liberties.
One of our civil liberties is the pursuit of happiness, which homosexual people are not allowed to chase. They cannot be married to the
person they love and it violates their freedoms. According to professorshouse.com, “In Alaska, Nevada, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Nebraska,
Missouri, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia,

Others might ask why gay marriage should be legalized, but my question is this: why should other people be able to choose who marries
who? If a man and a woman get married, no one seems to care. They are two people who feel affection for one another and those two
people want to start a family. If we change the scenario a little bit and a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, try to get married

it causes uproar. They are not allowed to be married or raise a family together.

Imagine waking up one day to a world that was completely opposite from the world we went to sleep in, meaning gay people are now
straight and all straight people are now gay. Do you think the newly straight people would fight for the newly homosexual people’s
rights? America is the land of the free, but we are not free to marry whomever we would like. After everything straight people have
put homosexual people through, in this scenario, homosexual people would most likely vote for their rights because they would want
their rights to be voted for. We are equals in this world whether we are Black, White, Hispanic, Indian, or any other race for that
matter. Why should we not be equals based on sexual orientation?

The 1st amendment of the Constitution states that a person’s religious beliefs or a lack of thereof must be protected. Legislatures
also cannot discriminate against marriages of the minority party which, homosexual people fall into that category. There is also an
amendment stating there is separation of church and state, so you cannot declare that a marriage is a gift from God.

In a marriage there is one thing that truly matters: love. Yes, other things are important too, but not one couple would make it to
even asking someone to marry them if there was not some love. Las Vegas, Nevada is also known for being the place where many weddings
occur which are annulled within one week. These marriages are not based off love, but simply a drunken night in Vegas. High divorce
rates weaken what a marriage is defined as. Why are we not able to rewrite what a marriage stands for and make it include a homosexual
marriage? The definition of love, according to dictionary.com is as follows: “Very strong affection: an intense feeling of tender
affection and compassion.” If gay people feel this way then why shouldn’t they be able to be married? If they are happy with each
other, said persons should be able to marry.
California, Hawaii, New York, and the District of Columbia all have domestic partnership laws and civil partnerships meaning it is
almost a marriage without the matrimony. Civil partnerships also give couples the ability to have joint bank accounts, live in the
same house, and pay bills together. Homosexual couples are not entitled to this in most states.
Marriage benefits should be available to all couples, no matter what. In places where gay marriages are banned, the gay couples are
not able to have the same benefits as others. When filing for health care or insurance through a job, gay couples are not able to
add each other on. Most loved ones, such as a spouse or a child, in a straight marriage, can make life altering decisions in a
hospital if need be. Since gay marriage is not legal, said person’s spouse is not recognized as their next of kin and care is delayed.

Who would be affected if homosexual marriage was legalized? No one. Everyone believes there is one person who is out there to love us.
Gay people feel the same way. Parenthood is a benefit of marriage and gay couples cannot have children by themselves, without some type
of help, so they look to adoption agencies. In some cases gay couples are put on longer waiting lists or denied completely. There are
other benefits to being married as well, such as tax breaks. On the website professorshouse.com it reads, “When we hit our mid-thirties,
we wanted only true friendships- friendships that were durable.” This is a perfect example of matrimony and what it should be based on.
According to dictionary.com a marriage is, “The legal or religious ceremony that formalizes the decision of two people to live as a
married couple, including the accompanying
social festivities.” If this is a marriage why are gay people not included in this?

Even though gay marriage should be legalized, some people have different beliefs. In most religions including, Christianity, Islam,
and Orthodox Judaism same sex preferences are a sin. People believe in procreation to repopulate the world, but are against gay marriage
and homosexuals adopting children because they cannot procreate on their own. If this is a stand point on making or breaking gay marriage
then only people who are fertile and want to procreate should be able to get married according to this bias. America has never really given
gay marriage a chance, but they believe gay marriage will weaken its institution by leading to high divorce rates. On loveandpride.com I
read, “One reason legislatures are denying gay marriage is because they are fearful that opening the door to allowing gay marriages will
open the door to polygamy as well. This would also mean reopening cases about polygamy in the past which they are not willing to do.” Others
are fearful for children’s futures and they fear being raised by two fathers or by two mothers may compromise children’s mental capacities.

Even though to most people gay marriage should be illegal and should stay in its current state, I believe we need to change the world for
future generations. We feared that different religions were going to clash, but now all of the religions coexist. White people had Black
and Hispanic slaves, but we overcame the odds and now White men, Black men, and Hispanic men can be equals. If it is possible to overcome
such fierce obstacles then we can overcome the boundary obstructing gay marriages and straight marriages alike. Gay marriage should be
legalized for these reasons. Evolution will always continue and at any given point in time, something will occur that we will not like
in this world, but we can overcome this. Gay marriage is a controversial issue that people have been fighting for years and it has finally
come to the surface. For the good of generations in the future we should legalize gay marriage.