PLEASE HELP with my college topic about gay marriage?

Question

My esay is gays inpact on marriag, some one please help me. i find that i am not aopinionated enought to right about this topic either way.

Answer 1

There would be no impact on straight people who are currently married or later choose to marry, but the impact on gay people who wish to marry would be significant.

Without the benefit of marriage, gay couples cannot file joint tax returns, and usually pay higher taxes than they would if they were able to marry.
If a gay couple is fortunate enough to have an employer to offer health benefits to a partner, the partners benefits are taxed since the partner is not a legal family member.
If two gay people are in a committed relationship and one becomes ill, the other partner can be denied hospital visitation since they are not legally related.
If a gay partner dies, the surviving partner can inherit their estate but are taxed at the highest rate since they are not a spouse (and oftentimes lose their home due to the high tax burden).
If a gay partner dies the surviving partner cannot receive pension or social security benefits, and if the surviving partner inherits a retirement plan it is also taxed because the surviving partner is not legally related.

Also, those who portray same sex marriage as a religious issue are wrong because there are some religious denominations that marry same sex couples; same sex marriage is an issue of secular legal rights that are given to some while being denied to others.

Answer 2

If you're not opinionated, you're actually in a VERY good position to write possibly the best paper. YOU get to research both sides, without filtering your information with any strong pre-existing bias. And you get to choose the side that (theoretically) actually makes the most objective sense.

THe only source I can point you towards is a documentary called "Tying the Knot"; I'm not sure where or how it's available but you can check online or at some libraries. You could try focus on the family or concerned women for america for arguments against it. Those are the only sources I can think of that are anti-marriage, but then I really haven't seen ANY good reasons against it.

Answer 3

"WASHINGTON — Legalized gay marriage (search) may never cause the transformation of society that some have predicted, given that it is likely to affect less than one in 100 U.S. married couples in the United States today. But culture warriors say the small numbers aren't reason to ignore the issue.

“While I don’t think, just because this is a small group of people, that it is not worthy of the attention in the public discourse it’s getting," said Gary Gates, a researcher with the Urban Institute (search) in Washington D.C., "the reality is the impact on marriage numerically is that gay couples will still make up a tiny fraction of married couples.”

Analysts use the 2000 Census (search) to derive an official count of the number of possible gay unions in the United States -- 595,000 households headed by same-sex partners. Others say that figure may be a conservative one given that many such couples aren’t particularly open about their relationships."

Maybe this site can help you?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114697,00.html

Answer 4

well im on my 3rd year of college and well i dont think the heading should be gays impact on marriage you could do gay marriages impact on todays society. or you could do the how does gay marriage effect them like no kids to adopt or no insurance or like the advantages or disadvantages. and just get a lot of books of it and trust me there will be plenty to wrte about.

Answer 5

I'm gay and married...the fabric of the universe is still holding.