Same Sex Marriage
“All men are created equal” we pride ourselves on being a society that promotes equality and equal opportunity to all. Granting to all Americans unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Did that pursuit to happiness include the right to get married? Marriage which is defined as a union between one man and one women according to the Defense of Marriage Act prevents the federal government from recognizing same sex marriage. Same sex marriage is a civil rights, political, social, moral, and religious issue that has be highly debated within the United States.
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In 1958 Mildred Jeter a black woman and Richard Loving a white man two residents of Virginia got married. At that time interracial marriage was illegal in the state of Virginia. In the decision known as Loving v. Virginia. The Lovings filed a motion to get their sentence dropped on the ground that the statutes which they had violated were repugnant to the Fourteenth Amendment. Chief Justice Earl Warren stated “Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law.” If racial discrimination is unconstitutional when dealing with marriage. Sexual orientation should also be seen as being unconstitutional and a violation of equality.
One of the reasons same sex marriage is such a controversial topic is because many people feel that marriage are vows taking before God so homosexuality goes against their religious beliefs. People that believe it goes against their religion like to site passages from the bible to support why they feel that homosexuality and same sex marriage is wrong, for example LEVITICUS 18:22 “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” Many religious groups feel that by extending marriage to homosexuals would ruin the conventional meaning of marriage. Supporters of same sex marriage feel that there should be a separation between...
