Critics of gay marriage often argue that marriage is between a man and a woman, and allowing gay marriage would ruin the sanctity of marriage. Critics also argue that a same sex couple is not capable to raise children. These are common beliefs that anti gay right people posses and they have one thing in common: They are heavily opinionated and have no significant scientific factual backing. This truly appears to be a strong prejudice that is affecting people on a national scale. The only threat that rewarding gay people with rights may bring is the decaying of social norms that may cause some straight people discomfort. This would only happen because of decades upon decades of conditioning to believe that gay people make a choice to be gay, and that it is immoral. This conditioning has cast such a harsh cliché over the gay community in our nation. With the way that our society is set up to date, gays will never experience that sort of satisfaction and equality in their everyday lives. People in this world are just so conceited and will not break away from any sort of social norm that we are used to living with and cannot accept anything different from a man and a woman relationship. Having the idea that gay marriage is immoral in America stuck in your head is unacceptable for a supposedly free country. Not having equal rights for all just does not seem right to me because being gay is a simple life decision that people make and has absolutely no affect on anybody else. Arguing that gays would not be able to raise a child is ludicrous and is an excuse people use to try and justify their hatred towards the gay community. So if there is a valid reason for not permitting gay marriage, I will accept it. But if things stay the way they are, I will have lost hope in America for not living up to our nation’s motto.

Religion is not law.

The most terrifying evidence of the hatred in humans are often displayed in situations where gay people are the victim. Statistics illustrate that over a quarter (26%) of gay teens that make the decision to be open about their feelings are forced out of their homes by their parents. Surviving in the world alone can be horrifying for any teenager, let alone a teen that is already insecure due to the taboo views that people have about gay rights in our country. In the country that lives by the idea of “all men are created equal”, we condemn gay people for a personal choice that they make, and as far as we scientifically know, they don’t even have any control over this. This is a personal decision and doesn’t harm anyone else unless they choose to let it bother them, which only occurs because of the taboo nature of gay rights. If a person chooses to follow religion it is their business and this is backed up in the constitution, but to outlaw a personal choice on religious grounds is unconstitutional and wrong. If you are against the idea of homosexuality, that is perfectly ok, but condemning other people’s views because of what you believe is not right, just as it would be wrong for a gay person to condemn a person for participating in a straight marriage. We have no scientific evidence that being gay is only a choice and isn’t programmed genetically. We only have a biblical word that has been passed down many years as the basis of outlawing gay rights. As previously stated, in our constitution, religion is left for the individual, and this is why it is wrong to make a law on a religious basis. This is diminishing the truth to our freedom of religion also, because it is promoting the idea that Christianity is the religions of our nation. It is also displaying the idea that we truly do not have the freedoms that we are guaranteed in our first amendment. As long as our choices don’t affect the freedoms of other people than they should be left to us as individuals.

Gay Rights

Gay Rights

Equality

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Gay Rights are Human Rights

Our main argument derives from the lack of civil rights that gay people in our country possess. Of the 50 States, 47 states and Washington D.C. have anti hate laws. Only 24 of the states and D.C. include sexual orientation in the law. In 2005, nearly 15 percent of all hate crimes in the United States occurred due to sexual orientation, and most of these were violent. There clearly isn’t enough action being taken on behalf of the gay community, and because of this we are not promoting true equality in our nation. Being homosexual should have no affect on others, and it should be a decision that is left up to the individual. And the citizens of our country that have made the decision to go public with their orientation for all to see should not be subject to this uncivil treatment. In July 2009 the Senate approved the Matthew Shepard Act, which will outlaw hate crimes based on both sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a law that has already been passed by the house and has full support from president Obama and is expected to become a law by the end of the year. This will begin to bring some sort of relief for those people but is only scratching the surface of what they would like to see done in America. In the United States, our people’s freedom of speech and freedom of religion are protected under our constitution but yet, gay marriage is outlawed in 48 states. The reason for the gay marriage being illegal stems from the christian belief of marriage being between a man and a woman, but it is unconstitutional to make a law on a religious basis. If the specific church doesn’t want to have gay marriage within their church, then that is ok, but laws should not have religious motives behind them.