Gay Marriage

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Recently, the local radio station has been airing some commercials to get people thinking. These commercials are of an African-American man in modern day society who is unequally separated from white people. In one commercial he is told to sit at the back of an airplane, in another he is told to use a separate facility for colored people at his work. By the end of the commercials the question is asked “what would today be like if Martin Luther King never had a dream?” These commercials are played so that we can see what positive change has been made. We look back on how we treated people and we are disgusted with our own behavior yet putting a ban on same sex marriages is the same concept.

Not allowing gay or lesbian couples to marry is an example of modern day suffrage in the gay community. Homosexuals have the right to speak freely, bear arms, and have privacy yet under law they are separated from the general population because they do not have the right to wed and be family. Twenty years from now society will look back and ask themselves what authority did we have to grant rights on the basis of preference.

It is unconstitutional, here in America, to disperse rights on the basis of gender. This ban on same sex marriages has defied what our founding fathers based this country on. Further more, this ban will not hold up due to the full faith and credit law. In a nutshell it says that if a marriages is valid in one state, then its valid in the remaining forty nine states. This law is in effect because currently there are thirteen states that allow Same sex marriages.

Homosexuals are often viewed as Unclean, Obsessed with sex, and having STDs. People often view them in that perspective because the relation shipside is hard to see. If a couple is not married but still being intimate it is more likely they will be seen as “lovers” rather than a “loving couple”.

Same sex couples are also looked at as ...