An Argument for Same Sex Marriage

The freedom of speech and religion is regarded as the motto, the key to success is difficult to believe that diversification is
important, not to obey many Americans preached. If the United States is a country of opportunity and diversity, why can a
homosexual couple be avoided? Homosexual couples are avoided if Americans support religious freedom, as their religious
views do not match what most people think should be over. Based on this logic, society should accept a homosexual couple
instead of abandoning when dealing with adoption and marriage. "These truths are self-evident, I believe that all people are
equal and equal

This argument discusses allegations of same sex marriage. The content includes the meaning of introduction, simple
background and paper statements, subject matter of discussion is a refuted argument, conclusion part: summary and re-
description of paper statements. A marriage of the same sex is also called marriage of the same sex or equal marriage and is a
marriage of two people with the same physical gender or gender identity. Various papers are posted in the 20 th and 21 th
centuries. Is gay marriage legal? Homosexual marriage has been an important topic in many countries since 1924. In the year
2000, countries such as the United States and the UK approved gay marriages, but not everyone agreed to consent.
Homosexuals are fighting for the right to marry gays in 2013. People who oppose gay marriage believe that the importance of
marriage will disappear and some will do so if it is legalized.

The claim of gay marriage is important. Today, there are problems to legalize gay marriage in many states. I would like to insist
that gay marriage does not infringe any citizenship, but it is also immoral. As a Christian, we should not be afraid to wake up
and use the constitutional right to oppose gay marriage. Discussion as to whether gay marriage should be legalized focuses on
infringement of citizenship. Domestic awareness

There is little argument against gay marriage. Most of them are based only on emotional or religious beliefs and traditions. One
argument for same-sex marriage is that marriage should be used for pregnancy, not an individual concerned. This belief has a
strong foundation in Christian religion. As Jean Elshtain wrote in Commonweal magazine, "Marriage has never happened, never
happened, there are about 2 people, mainly about the possibility of child rearing" (59). There was a controversy as to whether
or not to pass DOMA before the house handed over DOMA. Supporters of DOMA are trying to force this problem by describing
homosexuals as "immoral, inappropriate and unnatural" (Dority 39). There is no scientific support to support such statements
as this claim is completely illegal as it is based on opinion.

Today 's society is widely discussing the legitimacy of same - sex marriage. Marriage of many people is considered to be a
relationship between two people, preferably male and female. The LGBT community is fighting for the right to marry without
being denied by the government. Legislation of homosexual marriage in the United States is very important for future marital
equality in the whole LBGT community. Homosexual marriage does not impair social and other marriage functions, nor is it
protected by the Constitution, it can also alleviate lifelong discrimination.

A large and growing body of scientific evidence indicates that the intact, married family is best for children. In particular, the
work of scholars David Popenoe, Linda Waite, Maggie Gallagher, Sara McLanahan, David Blankenhorn, Paul Amato, and Alan
Booth has contributed to this conclusion.

This statement from Sara McLanahan, a sociologist at Princeton University, is representative:

If we were asked to design a system for making sure that children's basic needs were met, we would probably come up with
something quite similar to the two-parent ideal. Such a design, in theory, would not only ensure that children had access to the
time and money of two adults, it also would provide a system of checks and balances that promoted quality parenting. The fact
that both parents have a biological connection to the child would increase the likelihood that the parents would identify with
the child and be willing to sacrifice for that child, and it would reduce the likelihood that either parent would abuse the child.

Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur, Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps (Boston: Harvard University
Press, 1994) 38.

The following are ten science-based arguments against same-sex "marriage":

1. Children hunger for their biological parents.

Homosexual couples using in vitro fertilization (IVF) or surrogate mothers deliberately create a class of children who will live apart from their
mother or father. Yale Child Study Center psychiatrist Kyle Pruett reports that children of IVF often ask their single or lesbian mothers about
their fathers, asking their mothers questions like the following:"Mommy, what did you do with my daddy?" "Can I write him a letter?" "Has he
ever seen me?" "Didn't you like him? Didn't he like me?" Elizabeth Marquardt reports that children of divorce often report similar feelings
about their non-custodial parent, usually the father.

Kyle Pruett, Fatherneed (Broadway Books, 2001) 204.

Elizabeth Marquardt, The Moral and Spiritual Lives of Children of Divorce. Forthcoming.

2. Children need fathers.

If same-sex civil marriage becomes common, most same-sex couples with children would be lesbian couples. This would mean that we would
have yet more children being raised apart from fathers. Among other things, we know that fathers excel in reducing antisocial behavior and
delinquency in boys and sexual activity in girls.

What is fascinating is that fathers exercise a unique social and biological influence on their children. For instance, a recent study of father
absence on girls found that girls who grew up apart from their biological father were much more likely to experience early puberty and a teen
pregnancy than girls who spent their entire childhood in an intact family. This study, along with David Popenoe's work, suggests that a father's
pheromones influence the biological development of his daughter, that a strong marriage provides a model for girls of what to look for in a
man, and gives them the confidence to resist the sexual entreaties of their boyfriends.

3. Children need mothers.

Although homosexual men are less likely to have children than lesbians, homosexual men are and will be raising children. There will be even
more if homosexual civil marriage is legalized. These households deny children a mother. Among other things, mothers excel in providing
children with emotional security and in reading the physical and emotional cues of infants. Obviously, they also give their daughters unique
counsel as they confront the physical, emotional, and social challenges associated with puberty and adolescence. Stanford psychologist Eleanor
MacCoby summarizes much of this literature in her book, The Two Sexes. See also Steven Rhoads' book, Taking Sex Differences Seriously.
Eleanor MacCoby, The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together (Boston: Harvard, 1998).

Steven Rhoads, Taking Sex Differences Seriously (Encounter Books, 2004).

4. Evidence on parenting by same-sex couples is inadequate.

A number of leading professional associations have asserted that there are "no differences" between children raised by homosexuals and those
raised by heterosexuals. But the research in this area is quite preliminary; most of the studies are done by advocates and most suffer from
serious methodological problems. Sociologist Steven Nock of the University of Virginia, who is agnostic on the issue of same-sex civil marriage,
offered this review of the literature on gay parenting as an expert witness for a Canadian court considering legalization of same-sex civil
marriage:

Through this analysis I draw my conclusions that 1) all of the articles I reviewed contained at least one fatal flaw of design or execution; and 2)
not a single one of those studies was conducted according to general accepted standards of scientific research.

This is not exactly the kind of social scientific evidence you would want to launch a major family experiment.

Steven Nock, affidavit to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice regarding Hedy Halpern et al. University of Virginia Sociology Department (2001).

5. Evidence suggests children raised by homosexuals are more likely to experience gender and sexual disorders.

Although the evidence on child outcomes is sketchy, it does suggest that children raised by lesbians or homosexual men are more likely to
experience gender and sexual disorders. Judith Stacey-- a sociologist and an advocate for same-sex civil marriage--reviewed the literature on
child outcomes and found the following: "lesbian parenting may free daughters and sons from a broad but uneven range of traditional gender
prescriptions." Her conclusion here is based on studies that show that sons of lesbians are less masculine and that daughters of lesbians are
more masculine.

She also found that a "significantly greater proportion of young adult children raised by lesbian mothers than those raised by heterosexual
mothers ... reported having a homoerotic relationship." Stacey also observes that children of lesbians are more likely to report homoerotic
attractions.

Her review must be viewed judiciously, given the methodological flaws detailed by Professor Nock in the literature as a whole. Nevertheless,
theses studies give some credence to conservative concerns about the effects of homosexual parenting.

Judith Stacey and Timothy Biblarz, "(How) Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?" American Sociological Review 66: 159-183. See
especially 168-171.

6. Same-sex "marriage" would undercut the norm of sexual fidelity within marriage.

One of the biggest threats that same-sex "marriage" poses to marriage is that it would probably undercut the norm of sexual fidelity in
marriage. In the first edition of his book in defense of same-sex marriage, Virtually Normal, homosexual commentator Andrew Sullivan wrote:
"There is more likely to be greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between two men than between a man and a woman." Of
course, this line of thinking--were it incorporated into marriage and telegraphed to the public in sitcoms, magazines, and other mass media--
would do enormous harm to the norm of sexual fidelity in marriage.

One recent study of civil unions and marriages in Vermont suggests this is a very real concern. More than 79 percent of heterosexual married
men and women, along with lesbians in civil unions, reported that they strongly valued sexual fidelity. Only about 50 percent of gay men in civil
unions valued sexual fidelity.

Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solomon, Civil Unions in the State of Vermont: A Report on the First Year. University of Vermont Department of
Psychology, 2003.

David McWhirter and Andrew Mattison, The Male Couple (Prentice Hall, 1984) 252.

7. Same-sex "marriage" would further isolate marriage from its procreative purpose.

Traditionally, marriage and procreation have been tightly connected to one another. Indeed, from a sociological perspective, the primary
purpose that marriage serves is to secure a mother and father for each child who is born into a society. Now, however, many Westerners see
marriage in primarily emotional terms.

Among other things, the danger with this mentality is that it fosters an anti-natalist mindset that fuels population decline, which in turn puts
tremendous social, political, and economic strains on the larger society. Same-sex marriage would only further undercut the procreative norm
long associated with marriage insofar as it establishes that there is no necessary link between procreation and marriage.

This was spelled out in the Goodridge decision in Massachusetts, where the majority opinion dismissed the procreative meaning of marriage. It
is no accident that the countries that have legalized or are considering legalizing same-sex marriage have some of the lowest fertility rates in
the world. For instance, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Canada have birthrates that hover around 1.6 children per woman--well below the
replacement fertility rate of 2.1.

What is marriage? There are many types of marriages, yet the two most popular are opposite sex marriage and same sex marriage. Opposite
sex marriage is two people of the opposite sex combining as partners in a relationship by law. Same sex marriage is the same as opposite, but
instead of the opposite sex it is the same sex. People have questions such as does it affect family members. Although many people would say it
does not, it does. The people that are making the affect on their family are the ones to believe otherwise. They have made a whole new idea as
to what society and what they should be like. Not only changing their families, they change their religion. Even though some gays or lesbians
believe they can still be Christian and live a gay, they are wrong. They believe that being gay has nothing to do with religion, but it has more
than they believe. Same-sex marriage has been a huge controversy in the United States due to the fact people don 't know what marriage is,
how it affects families, or what religion has to do with it.