Persuasive Essay On Same Sex Marriage

In 2012, President Obama made US History when he told ABC News, “I’ve just concluded that for me, personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married." (www.abc.com) This created a lot of controversy in our society. Homosexuals are inspiring to others that aren’t gay because of insecurity about their bodies, how they appreciate the love of having a child to care for, and how they show themselves as being just as human as others. A lot of people don 't support same-sex marriage because of religious beliefs or they just think it 's disgusting and are too ignorant to see that just because someone is homosexual they shouldn 't deserve to be as happy as anyone else. Same-sex marriage

They get married for the same reasons a heterosexual couples do “to make a public promise of love, responsibility and lifetime commitment.” (www.oregonunitedformarriage.org) It 's not fair to tell someone they can 't marry the person they love just because of the gender they are. We are all people, we need to be able to love who we want. I have a friend who is gay and he told me stories of what people have told him in public “you’re disgusting” “when you die the Lord will judge and you will go to hell” “you 're a disgrace to people.” He says he doesn 't care what they tell him because he knows those people aren 't the ones he has to argue with for his

Therefore, if you don 't allow certain people the same rights that are given to a heterosexual couple, you ate discriminating the same way interracial marriage was until 1967 when an African American woman and a white man took their case to the Supreme Court. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for equality in the mid 1950’s until his assassination in 1968. Now homosexuals are doing the same thing for same-sex marriage. There 's actually a lot of murders that have happened towards homosexuals because of “homophobia”. In Russia, a man was beaten to death by his supposed friends after he told them he was a homosexual, they “reportedly decided to taunt him by making him walk home naked and began ripping off his clothes.” and he was also “raped with beer bottles and severely beaten,” But they didn 't stop there “After the brutal assault the suspects reportedly left, but later returned after realizing that the victim would call the police when he regained consciousness.” (rt.com) It makes me sick that people would do such thing to a human being who just wanted to be honest. I understand not being supportive of someone, but killing them because of what they chose to be? That 's ridiculous and inhumane. No one should have to be afraid to “come out of the closet” as some call