Quit Your Bitching: Same Sex Marriage

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Even though marriage is stated between a man and a woman, should gay marriage be legal? Because they already have the right to marriage and every person has the right to marry who they wish to marry. Opening the pathway to decimation and unequal rights to the public, the right to marriage between same sex couples has become a political/religious debate based on “fear” to ensue derest in the general population. Marriage, in thirty-three states has been established to only confined between a man and a woman. What if the problem lies in between the separation of church and state? And if not, is it fear that drives the majority of the population to be against same sex marriage?
In Arizon, resterant owner are exercizing their rights, as American citizens, to referuse servies to homosexuals. They have the right to do this, but in doing so it has opened a religious based conflicet in the state legislat. Most of these debates are opened with the conent of “marriage is between a man and woman,” however this is a religious belief and publice openion to the majority of the population. The minority in thes debated are homosexuals, or thouse of the population that do not have homophobia. Homophobia being the fear of homosexuals. And who is to say that some time soon resemase, job aplications, or adcceptence to serten collages may denine a person because of their sexual orientation. With dening the right of marrage, this has opened the flood gate to open descrimation agenst homosexuals.
The fight for this right first began in 1993 in Hawaii Supreme Court, this however failed and the subject of same sex marriage sat in the background of the world politics and law until about 2004 in Massachusetts where same sex marriage was legalized, Connec...

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