Gay Marriage Will Harm Children

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The Supreme Court of the United States recently ruled that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage. Yet, same-sex marriage continues to be a highly debated issue. If same-sex couples are allowed to marry they will hurt heterosexuals. If they are denied this right, then they are hurt. If it is something we have to recognize is that marrying same-sex persons represents itself as a social experiment that never has been experimented, including by societies that fomented the homosexuality (for example the traditional Greeks) as it is explained in Rezza encyclopedia. These societies clearly understood the matrimony as the stable union between a man and a woman with the possibility to procreate. The original objective of this resource paper is to defend my position in front of the gay marriage, as a result, this essay does not have the intension of offend or discriminate nobody independently of the sexual orientation, even though, The gay marriage should not be permitted or included in the constitution because same sex marriage is not a Civil Rights issue, tax dollars should not be used in something we believe is wrong and gay marriage confuses children about sexual roles.

Today, 41 states prohibit marriage between two people of the same sex by statute, constitutional amendment, or both; 12 permit same-sex marriage or civil union; and 3 do not have any laws explicitly allowing or disallowing same-sex marriage or civil union. (Lexis-Nexis Legal and Hein Online Session Laws Library). The abundant legal support divulging the opposition to the same sex matrimony, have a key element that resumes the whole document, typically is the is the fragment “union of a man and a woman”.

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