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On May 17th, 2004 Marcia Hams and Susan Shepard filed for marriage at Cambridge Massachusetts town hall. As it stands, Massachusetts is the only state in the United States where gay marriage is legal, but why is that? There are numerous arguments against gay marriage. Some of the most popular arguments are that marriage is an institution between a man and a woman, same sex marriages are not a good environment in which to raise children, gay marriage would threaten the institution of marriage itself, same sex marriage would force churches to marry gay couples when they are morally against it, and that marriage is traditionally a heterosexual institution. Unfortunately for opponents to gay marriage, these arguments just don't float.
Probably the most often heard argument against gay marriage is that marriage is an institution between a man and a woman. Yet it is also probably the weakest. Who says what marriage is and by whom it is to be defined? The married? The marriable? Isn't that like allowing a banker to decide who is going to own the money stored in the vaults? Shouldn't justice demand that if the straight community cannot show a compelling reason to deny the institution of marriage to gay people, it shouldn't be denied. And such simple, trite declarations, with no real moral argument behind them, are hardly compelling reasons. They're really more like an expression of prejudice than any kind of a real argument. The concept of not denying people their rights unless you can show a compelling reason to deny them is the very basis of the American ideal of human rights.
One of the more passionate arguments against same sex marriage is that gay marriages aren't a good environment to raise children. It's an interesting one, considering who society does allow to get married and bring children into their marriage. Murderers, convicted felons of all sorts, even known child molesters are all allowed to freely marry and...
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