Same Sex Marriage

Tiffany Whitfield

18 April 2007

EH 102

Arguments on Gay Marriage

Is it so wrong for people of the same gender to be legally married? The answer to this question is yes. In the United States today, gay people believe that it is in their civil rights to be able to be married, but the Defense of Marriage Act disagrees with them.

There have been laws created, and passed to reduce the numbers of same sex marriage. One legal document that has been in effect to reduce this problem is the Defense of Marriage Act. The Defense of Marriage Act was created to keep any states from allowing same sex marriage.

Gay marriage is undermining, and self-contradicts itself. Marriage itself between a man and a woman is hard enough to hold together, and most of them end up in divorce, which has a high rate in today's world, when gays union they may experience twice the difficulties, and that puts more harm to marriage. Two people of the same sex is absurd, because there are the same gender, they have the same physical features of each other, and they may have the same concept of views, that could me more interesting if they though different of an issue. In a real marriage, if two people disagree on something they may comprise and come to a conclusion together and work out something they both agree on, that is what is suppose to happen in marriage.

Gay marriage is also useless because they can not conceive children. One major part of being married is to share love between to people, and hope to carry it on by creating a child. Same sex couples can not do this because they are of the same gender, and there is no way that they would be able to conceive naturally. If they were capable of conceiving, or if they chose to adopt a child, it may cause a lot