Harrison (FGCU): Gay Marriage

30. January 2010 by student.

Weather or not we should allow gay marriages to be legal or not is a growing social problem in today’s society. Written by Thomas Jefferson in our declaration of Independence in 1776 is “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable  rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed” (Wikipedia the free encyclopedia). It seems that as decades have gone by this document in which we supposedly live by has gotten more and more forgotten. All men are created equally inevitably justifies that they are human beings also; they in fact should be legalized with the same rights as any other man no matter what their sexual preference is. This doesn’t mean homosexuals should be aloud to flaunt their orientation in public. nobody wishes to see two men making out on their Sunday afternoon, so laws can be mad to deny that. Many people agree that gays should have the same rights in housing, jobs, public accomodations, and should have equal access to government benefits, equal protection of the law, etc. The problem comes in play when GAY marriage is mentioned and all talk of equality stops dead cold. Getting into another argument is why someone would want to be gay, but gay people don’t choose to be the way they are, they’re born that way. This starts a whole other argument though. Pursuit of Happiness is all homosexuals are looking for and our society denies and torchers these people with anti-homosexual marches.

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