Gay Marriages

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Gay and lesbian marriages may be the key component to rescue marriages from this social and economic relevance. Not only do homosexual couples seek marriage for the pecuniary reasons such as taxes and estate purposes, they also seek the bond of long term commitment based on love and romance. If people like Tom Delay would stop and look at the issue without such bigotry and fear, he might understand that these couples provide the best argument in their defense, love and commitment. Despite the fact that the lifestyle of homosexual might be looked upon as abnormal, they too want to practice the most traditionalistic form of love, a bond of marriage. They want commitment and love, something that most heterosexual couples don?t quite understand. The conservatives need to understand that the bond of marriage may be strengthened by the people that they fear the most, the homosexuals. Gay couples are not attacking nor mocking the institution of marriage like so many heterosexual couples are, they just want to be able to practice it.
What then are people so afraid of if gay marriages are legalized? It is already evident that women don?t need men to protect or support them, or thanks to fertilization research and development, impregnate them either. Men, on the other hand, may still need women to bear children, but single men can adopt and sex is surely not scarce. Perhaps it is the fact that gay couples have scattered convention with their lifestyles and demolished our comfy and parochial notion of the predominant sexual categories of heterosexual male and heterosexual female and nothing else. Or maybe gays jus...