I have to right a paper about same sex marriage. Can anybody offer my their opinions?

Question

Sorry
I was in a rush and spelt write wrong!

I would like to thank all of the people that made fun of me for spelling write wrong. Good job. You just made fun of me. I know i spelt it wrong. I am not blind too. Thanks to the people that gave their honest opinion.

Answer 1

You definately picked the right place to ask your question!!!

I don't see how the government has any right to say whether or not a gay couple should be married. The institue of marriage is religous and therefore it should be up to the institue that will perform the ceremony to decide if they wish to do it or not. If I decided I wanted to spend the rest of my life with a woman I wouldn't go to, say, a Catholic church and expect the priest to marry us. What IS wrong though, is that there are Christian communities that support the idea of gay marriage and cannot perform the ceremony because it is against the law and America won't honor it.

What I don't get is why everyone says that if two people of the same sex get married religous fanatics say that it will disturb the sanctity of marriage... meanwhile Britney Spears can get drunk with a friend, have Elvis marry her, and then have it anulled the next day. I'm not saying that all people who are gay are perfect because truth-be-told, we are still human. Us as a society has changed so much that with divorce at such a high rate the "sanctity" of marriage has already been dissolved.

In the constitution it says every man has rights and freedoms... our freedom to marry whomever we choose and our right to do is not present. It really feels like the government is going against it's own rights for thier own personal, conservative beliefs. How, in a "free" country, can a government tell certain citizens "We won't give you the opportunity to get married"? Isn't that grounds for discrimination? Ask any older black person how the term "seperate but equal" works...

If one man has been with another for decades and one dies the other has no right to the estate. How would that make you feel when you not only are morning the loss of lover but will now lose your house because you weren't married? Gays also have no say in keeping thier partner on life support or not for the same reason.

If a gay couple also wants to adopt a child it is also harder. For the amount of neglected, hungry, and orphaned children in this country, adoption agencies should jump at the chance of anyone wanting to adopt a child. They do background checks and interviews to see if the place where the child will potentially go is a safe, loving, and healthy environment. There are agencies that won't even allow a gay person or couple to adopt a child no matter financially stable or loving the household is.

What I believe is that since gays are now "coming out of our closets" and standing up for ourselves, is an improvement in society. When a people can join together and be proud and powerful, that's where the improvement is. All the gay bashers and hateful people have nothing better to do than try to make life more difficult than life already is. We have people in this country that are dieing on the street, we have kids with drug problems in middle school, and the thing that they decide to put all thier energy into is stopping same sex marraige? People with backward beliefs like that are what is slowing down the advancement in our American Society.

The only way I will change my mind is if marriage is taken away all together. If straight people will let it go then I will too, because to me marriage is about love and commitment not the involvement of opposite sex organs.

My name is Christine, I live in NY, I am a bi female and you can quote me on anything and everything I said becuase it needs to be known...

Answer 2

Here's one: If you right a paper about same sex marriage, you will be WRONG.

Its called WRITING a paper, not righting a paper... Are you sure you are still in school? this is like basic grammar!!!

And, for the record, why not allow two loving people the benefit of marriage?? Is marriage really that sanctimonious, with the current divorce rate at 56% (and even higher for Christians??)

Answer 3

Gay rights/ same sex marriage has a rocky road ahead of it. In the wake of recent legislative and judicial decisions, both sides are scrambling to gain a definite advantage-- bombastic rhetoric is at a high point. However, the future of gay rights in the United States is all but certain. This republic has ever strived towards creating a nation based on the idealistic goals embodied in its founding charters, a country where all people are viewed as equal under the law despite the myriad differences that exist between them. I have no doubt that the United States will rise to this next challenge and outgrow the closemindedness inherent in homophobia, realizing in the end that day-- in the words of Martin Luther King Jr.-- when all people will be able to "sit down together at the table of brotherhood." History demands no less.

Answer 4

There is nothing unChristian about it. I am no better or more pious than my brother simply because I have a wife and he has a partner. As for separation of church and state, it is not an inability but rather an unwillingness on the part of those who want the votes of right-wing pseudo-Christians to uphold the Constitution. (The illegal spying shows that once you breach one part, you're on a slippery slope.) Those who would use the Bible to reinforce their prejudices will do so, regardless of whether the subject is homosexuality, integration, interracial marriage, or activities even between husband and wife that are "their business" to stick their noses into. Such people are not Christians, for they are filled with hatred and hypocritically judgmental. Their purposes are twofold: to bilk gullible believers out of their hard-earned money and to elect Republicans who will uphold their "right" to engage in parasitic, racketeering behavior. And where TF did you brain-dead dittoheads get this "Adam and Steve" excrement from anyway? Polly want a cracker? Awk!

Answer 5

I did a paper a while back on it. http://www.hrc.org has some great resources on the same-sex marriage battle. Also, you don't state what aspect of it you're doing. Are you doing a persuasive paper? An informational over the same-sex marriage fight over the years?

Answer 6

banning of same sex marriage is the same as discriminating against a minority group. (as any minority group society attempts to suppress them until the feel unworthy and would rather hide them in the closet) It is the same as slavery, a group of people trying to control the lives of a minority group. I have many thoughts on theis and could ramble on. We are looking for individual rights, the right to visit a partner in the hospital, a right not to have family to contest wills, a right not to have our bank accounts emptied by vicious family members that suppressed are partner through life.

We are asking for the right to show for the funeral so family members can not block th funeral from us.

We are asking for human rights (not gay rights are any other special intrest right, the right to love and feel free with the person we love, knowing what we create, we will not always be in the position to protect with lawyers and etc)

good question,,,,might be a very intelligent question, thumbs up

PS.
I wanted to add, that I am a bi-nation relationship, we lived in two different countries as americans we do not have the right to sponsor our partner. So now I live in a different country where we were legally partnered and accepted in to sociey. (we have the rights of that country, I did have to go to the american counsulate of the country getting authorization to do so) as I was in the closet most of my life,,,,it was a humbling experience but one I do not regret. This relationship cost me much, Yes he was worth it, we live a good life and I have excepted me new language and new surrounding..... Wow, sometimes I still miss the salt of the ocean from the atlantic (but that has lessen in time and now I see my family about once a year and it is exceptable but less of the rights, I felt I should have received from my mother country, as any good child, I still love my mother land)

Answer 7

My opinion is: you love who you love. My best friend and his husband have been together for about 8 years now. While they were out of the country they had a "Life Partner" ceremony. I thought that was great - except that I couldn't be there. They are as happy as anyone I know. The only bad part is that it isn't recognized here in the U.S. and I think it should be

Answer 8

My opinion: all for it.
I don't think that will help your paper much, though, will it?

If you want a general poll of opinions, try using the 'search questions' feature to find all the other times this week that question's been asked.

If you want facts and figures, either re-word your question or try a Google search.

Answer 9

My husband and I met in 1989 when we met serving the USA in the USAF. We have been together through good and bad since that time. We have raised a daughter, who just left us to attend college. We have buried parents and friends, we have laughed, and cried with each other and seen each other through good times and bad.

Our families and friends have always accepted us, even the ones who might have not fully understood initially. Eventually they looked through us and saw two people, in love and happy to be building a life together.

I do not want a same-sex-marriage, because to me marriage is a term for the church and religion. I grew up a Baptist and I would not want to upset the church in any way. I respect them and their right to worship and their beliefs.

I do however hope that someday a federal law will be enacted so that any two people who pledge their lives to one another and commit themselves legally to one another and have the same rights to file taxes jointly, claim one another on insurance, have hospital rights and funeral rights.

I want the fact that I am committed to my husband respected by the government.

Lucky for us we are financially secure enough to have established legal documentation to cover us in any event so these rights will be ours should the need arise. Lucky for us we have bought plots alongside my sisters and the eight of us (me my three sisters and their husbands) will be together for eternity. Both in our graves and in heaven, because no matter what others think, not only am I gay, not only am I married, I am a Christian.

Answer 10

What? You first need to write about "how to spell" before you write about same sex marriage. Life is a step by step process.