Eng226 - Gay Marriage

Amber Wang

ENG 226

Definition Agreement Essay

Gay Marriage

        “You cannot stand for civil rights +not support gay marriage. You cannot stand for human rights +not support gay marriage. It’s that simple. Everywhere, the voice of the oppressed must echo-ring out or else it will be rushed by the tyranny of wickedness.”-Bernard Schaffer.

United State supreme court rules the same-sex marriage is ledge nationwide in 2015. It is absolute a landmark, not only nationwide but also worldwide. It is a very controversial issue, some people stand for it; other people don’t. When we discuss about same-sex marriage, what are we looking for? In fact, the same-sex marriage this matter should be split into two aspects: same-sex, and marriage. “Marriage” is more normal thing and acceptable for the society; then the controversial issue is obvious, “Same Sex”. There are thousand reasons from the opponents to against the same sex marriage: homosexuality is unnatural, social morality will be destroyed, religious groups will not support it, and non-fertility will lead to a decrease in population and more people will be encouraged to become homosexuals, susceptible to AIDS, and homosexuality will not able to give the normal care as the heterosexual parents do if homosexuality adopt a child, and so on.

Marriage is a family relationship in our society protected by law. Although it is not all the homosexuality want to get married, marriage is a free choice and it should be a basic right for everybody regardless you are guy or not. It should all be respected and guaranteed, and homosexuality should have the equal right with others to decide if they want to go married or not. Guy marriage should be protected by law as well. No matter in heterosexuality or homosexuality, marriage is never a romantic fairy-tale. It is a basic lawful right and obligation between two people who in love with each other. Therefore, the marriage is more about love. It is a commitment which give to each other responsibility to be one family lawfully. Heterosexuality enjoys the right to marry as heterosexuals, it should be giving the same right to the homosexuality as well.

        In my hometown, Taiwan, the Constitutional Court ruled that same-sex couples have the right to marry under the constitution and it will amend the marriage laws to align with the constitution in the future two years. In opposition to same-sex marriage, some social group in Taiwan claim it will only encourage people has incest and hybridization, causing the traditional ethics to collapse, and it will also have an adverse impact on the next generation. “There is a psychological problem with single-parent children, not to mention Homosexual child adoption? " said by the extreme opponents against the same-sex marriage. However, the parents' sexual orientation has nothing to do with their children's growth. The value of the family does not come from the government's recognition and declaration, but it is from the commitment to each other and facing the difficulty together. According to the statistics, there are 594,000 same-sex couple households in the United States, 115,000 have children. Some people say that children need both a mother and a father to raise them, but there is nothing dealing with the gender when parenting.