Same-Sex Marriage: A Fight for Love and Equality

Same Sex Marriage

Should same sex marriage be legalized all over the United States? There are many pros and cons on the topic. Many people argue over how gay marriage is defined as a sin in the bible. Despite the cons to same sex marriage, people should be allowed to be with whomever they want without being controlled and told who they can and cannot love. People cannot control with whom they fall in love with and they cannot express their true selves if they do not have the opportunity to show who they really love. Around the 1660’s inter-racial marriage laws were being passed. They were discriminating from different race marriages. In the 1750’s most of the Southern Colonies had passed laws discriminating against racial marriages (Religious Tolerance). Virginia passed a law stating that, all marriages between a white person and a colored person shall be absolutely

Also, girls who are raised without a father are more likely to be sexually active and become pregnant at a young age (Pro Con Gay Marriage). It will adjust the purpose of getting married and raising a child that you have birthed is part of adulthood. A gay couple does not have the advantage of providing the child which they adopt, with the real mother or father. Occasionally, somewhat fertile heterosexual couples can produce a child on their own (Pro Con Gay Marriage). By not legalizing homosexual marriage it will prevent children from being bullied for having gay or lesbian parents. In papers, which supported Arizona’s gay marriage stated that “the State regulates marriage for the primary purpose of channeling potentially procreative sexual relationships into enduring unions for the sake of joining children to both their mother and their father... Same-sex couples can never provide a child with both her biological mother and her biological father” (Pro Con Gay