Justice For All?
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......
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