Gay Marriage Persuasive Essay

You’ve been imagining your wedding ever since you’ve met the man of your dreams in the Mississippi School of the Arts, and you planned your wedding venue and your tuxedo. All you need is the most ornate, perfect wedding cake possible. You and your soon-to-be husband arrive at your local wedding cake shop, and are ready to pick out your wedding cake. Unfortunately, the business refuses to serve you because you are gay; your mind starts racing, and you wonder what you should do! So you decide to travel a more civil route, and bring this case up to your local court system, but unexpectedly, the judge decided that the business-owner had every right to deny you of service. You, and many others in the same situation as you, would feel furious. Many

A Mississippi Bill, the “Religious Freedom” Bill, was recently constituted, and has both opposition and support. The opposition’s side of the story is pretty clear-cut (it is discriminatory to deny the right/privilege of marriage (and the benefits that go along with it)); what do the supporters of the “Religious Freedom” Bill, or people who oppose gay marriage in general, think of same-sex marriage? One major argument against same-sex marriage is the fact that “The three most prominent religions in America (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) consider heterosexual marriage to be both moral and natural, while homosexual relations are deemed sexually immoral” (Chittom). The top three religions in America do not support gay marriage; does this mean that the United States’ whole legal system should change? Is it really necessary, however, to ‘unseperate’ church and state in order to cater to all theists in the United States; can theists handle interacting, associating, or even looking at homosexual individuals? It is, obviously, incorrect to completely tear apart a government for a religion; it is not that difficult to put one small detail about a person, that they are married to a person, or will be married, to someone of the same gender, aside for the well-being of a non-discriminatory government. A second major point against gay marriage is that marriage is not

It seems reasonable to assume that homosexual individuals should be able to adopt children in order to put the many children stuck in foster care into loving homes. However, there is an argument against letting homosexual individuals and couples adopt. It is said that same-sex couples should not adopt because there must be two roles for parents in a family: “...the mother [who is] better equipped to pass on nurturing skills and the father [who is] more qualified to teach leadership” (Wilson). There is no need for a parent who is only nurturing/a leader; one parent can possess both of these skills, which happens frequently. If a homosexual couple cannot adopt, should a single-mother not be allowed to raise a child due to lack of a father-figure in the household? Certainly not. A same-sex couple can have the same level of love and compassion for a child as a male and female may have. Another argument made is that, because children are “...naturally curious and at times cruel...”, they will make fun of the adoptive children of a same-sex couple (Wilson). This is just part of human life, and they must learn to ignore the rude, ignorant people in life. Because people can be cruel, mean, and discriminatory, why give consequences to the parents/soon-to-be parent (if it not the parents’ fault (and instead society) for being gay)? There