The institution of marriage is highly respected and holds great sentimental value for most societies. However, not all couples are afforded the right to be legally recognized as a married couple. Couples of the same-sex are denied the right to have their marriages be legal in the eyes of the law. Same-sex marriage is an important issue because it deals with a relatively large minority of the United States (Connor, 12).
The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. called gay marriage a civil rights issue, denouncing a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban it. Constitutional amendments should be used to expand freedom, not restrict it, Coretta Scott King said.
"Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union," she said. "A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages." (www.startribune.com)
"And God proceeded to create the man in his image, male and female he created them. Further God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful and become many, and fill the earth and subdue it (Genesis 1:27-28)."
Now imagine that the passage read, God created man and man. The passage does not have the same effect today, had that been the way we were created. How come people of the same sex think they can be joined in the sacred bond of marriage? Same sex marriages are against laws of nature, society, and religion. Charles Darwin, the famous scientist and naturalist, founded a process called "natural selection", otherwise known as "survival of the fittest". This insists that evolution has provided us with inherited physical and psychological traits that over several million years increased our ancestors’ chance of survival. No matter how hard two men.....
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