Same Sex Marriage... Moral?

Many years throughout history, there has been a group of people who have fought for the right to stay alive and to be accepted into society. Homosexuals or gay men and women don't have many of the same rights as heterosexuals. One example from the past is the controversy if gay people had the right to vote or even use the same restroom as heterosexuals. In this time and age there is a different controversy, gay marriages. Gay marriages are starting to come up all over the world. It is a controversy all over the world; most particularly here in the United States. Is there really a definite yes or no as to whether or not gay marriages should happen?

A large group of activists against gay marriage would answer no to gay marriages. Most of these people happen to be very religious in their beliefs. Lots of religious groups won\\\\\\\'t/don't accept the nature of gay marriages. The Roman-Catholic church sees gay marriage as a nuisance. Most priests won\\\\\\\'t give the blessing a marriage to the gay community and those who do are ridiculed for acknowledging the marriage. Alot of the theory behind their

belief is that God created Adam and Eve, a man and woman, to procreate. They believe that God agrees to sexual intercourse only as a means to reproduce. Since two men or two women can not produce a child, any sexual relationship they have is believed to be sinful. To the activist against same-sex marriages there is no disputing the fact that two men or two women married would be a mortal sin.

There are also a group of activists that would beg to differ with the above mentioned group. This group is largely made of homosexual male and females as well as their friends and family. This group is also made up of citizens with no affiliation with a homosexual, who just simply believe that all people were created equal and should receive all of the same rights, regardless of race, creed, gender, or sexual orientation. This group would respond to the above religious theory with their belief that God created all humans as they are, with differences such as men and women; black, white, asian, hispanic, etc; different spoken languages; different abilities and disabilities; and different sexual orientation. They believe that God created humans with so many differences so that they could learn to tolerate all of the different people they encounter. In their theory, if God didn\\\\\\\'t want humans to be gay He wouldn\\\\\\\'t have made them as such. Gay people do not believe they were made that way by living conditions or experiences. Most of them express awareness of their sexual orientation from the time that they knew what it was. They believe they were born that way (made so by God).

Another large position in the question of whether same-sex marriages should be legal has to do with bible interpretations. One of the main bible passages that is used is the story of Sodom and Gomorra. In this story, in Genesis 18, God tells Abraham that He plans to destroy the city of Sodom because of its gross immorality. Abraham begs God not to destroy Sodom, and God agrees that He would not destroy the city if He found 50 righteous people in it, then 45, then 30, then 20, or even 10 righteous people. God sends down two angels that only found one righteous person living in Sodom, Abraham\\\\\\\'s nephew Lot. Later in the story the angels tell Lot about God\\\\\\\'s plan to destroy the city and warn him to flee. The citizens of the town ask Lot who his visitors are and ask him to let them know them. God, then goes through with His plan to destroy the city.

The activists against gay marriage interpret this story to mean that the city of Sodom was destroyed because the residents were practicing same sex relations. They believe

that the immorality that the citizens were participating in is sodomy (the term of which comes from this story). They interpret the word \\\\\\\"know\\\\\\\" to mean that the citizens wanted to become sexually familiar with the angels. They think this because of research of the vocabulary used in the bible. They also interpret it as such because the actual bible verse mentions just before that every citizen of the city surrounded the house of Lot with an emphasis on the word \\\\\\\"even\\\\\\\" the men. They use this story very often in their fight to keep same-sex marriage illegal. They believe that it shows that if God would destroy a city because of same-sex relations legalizing gay marriage would not only be a sin, but some even believe that God would again destroy any cities to legalize it.

Believers in same-sex marriage

have many different interpretations of this story that contradict the above mentioned interpretation. There are those that argue that the word \\\\\\\"know\\\\\\\" does not mean to know sexually, but to question them as to their intentions of being in their city. Another argument is that the same-sex relations happened after the punishment was set. This can be compared to a man being arrested for drug possession

and hitting on the officer as she\\\\\\\'s putting the handcufs on.