Same Sex Marriage

Same Sex Marriage: Let Them Have Their Freedom

Why should it be illegal to marry someone that you love, someone that you want to start a family and spend the rest of your life with? The issue of same sex marriage is becoming one of much controversy among society. Massachusetts is the only state in the whole United States which allows same sex marriage, but some time last year, there were many couples who married “illegally” in the city of San Francisco. Gays and lesbians are pushing hard to make same sex marriage legal across the U.S. Same sex marriage should be legalized and allowed to homosexuals because we’re discriminating against them and denying their freedoms.

Homosexuals are no different from the rest of us, they are humans, male or female, function the same way, have feelings, they eat, drink, sleep; they’re no different from the rest of us, so why deny them the same right that heterosexuals have? They’re being discriminated against for no reason. According to Andrew Sullivan’s argument on same sex marriage, “Legalizing gay marriage would offer homosexuals the same deal society now offers heterosexuals: general social approval and specific legal advantages in exchange for a deeper and harder-to-extract-yourself-from commitment to another human being; like strait marriage, it would foster social cohesion, emotional security, and economic prudence.”(Sullivan 586-590).

One of the many arguments against same sex marriage is that it violates the sanctity of marriage. What exactly is the so-called “sanctity of marriage?” Modern society doesn’t even know the meaning of it so why try to rub it in now when referring to same sex marriage? People in modern society get married for all the wrong reasons: money, sex, popularity; there are even many shows on television like “The Bachelor,” “For Love or Money,” or even “Who Wants to Marry my Dad” that promote marriage wrongfully and have nothing to do with the sacred tradition of marriage. So why is society so...