Same Sex Marraige

It's a dark stormy night. Imagine waking up to a phone call at 3 in the morning. It's the hospital calling to tell you that your loved one was in a car accident caused by a speeding drunk driver. You rush to the hospital as fast as you can only to find out that the love of your life has gone into a coma. Unable to keep composure, you beg to see them. The nurse asks if you are a spouse or relative, you're response is "No, but we've been together 22 years, we are partners." The nurse replies, "I'm sorry, but only a legal spouse or family member can see her." Because it is illegal for homosexuals to marry in many states, homosexuals are deprived of many rights or normal rights that heterosexuals would have.

In the United States numbers are more shocking than not, 3% of the population is exclusively gay (NY Times 4). Some people enjoy several degrees of homo & hetero sexual lifestyles. The exclusively gay population might be a small percentage of the total population. In that little segment there are a lot of emotions. Just because they are gay means today that they cannot enjoy the same freedoms that bi-sexual and heterosexual people enjoy in marriage. Shouldn't everyone be entitled to their constitutional rights of: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness right?

Almost 30,000 American gay couples have been married nationwide. Homosexual couples just want to be like every other class of people. They want to be able to tell people, "This is my wife/husband/partner." Regardless of the title, it is unfair to tell people who are in love and who dedicate their lives to one another that they are not as important, and shouldn't be allowed to marry each other. Our constitution and bill of rights consists of laws designed to protect the rights of every citizen in our country. A civilization that promotes any form of human-rights discrimination, including discriminating on the basis of sexuality, cannot hold itself out to the world as being fair and just. The United States is notorious for this. The US has overcome adversity in many areas; slavery for one, was just "plain wrong" some would say. It seems there always has to be a class of people beneath us which we must find to shame.

Why do courts have to approve if they will allow their states to allow gay marriage? Why is it the business of the government to determine who can and can't get married? Is it because of what the church says about homosexuality? What about the 1st amendment right guaranteeing the separation of church and state? Religious beliefs can only hold so much ground on law making when it comes to an argument of marriage. According to most religious scriptures, homosexuality is a sin. How many of those people claiming homosexuality is a sin truly live their lives by the rules of a book. You can't just pick and choose which rules you're going to live by according to the books. If you were to actually read the Bible, you would notice that it does not condemn homosexual relationships, but it does condemn sex before marriage. Wouldn't it be preventing sin if we allowed