In 1974, the Supreme Court said in the
Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur court case that the "freedom of
personal choice in matters of marriage and family life is one of the liberties
protected by the Due Process Clause.” If that is a fact, and it is, then marriage equality for homosexuals should already be recognized.
There is the thought that a marriage
is for the procreation and raising of a family. But if that is the reason why
marriage is allowed, why do we as a society allow those who are unable to have
children to marry? Why do we allow senior citizens to marry? They aren’t going
to procreate and be able to raise a family. Also, science has become advanced
enough that a woman does not need to have sex with a man to have a child. And
if the goal of marriage is to raise a family, why do we allow people to get
divorced if they have kids? I believe that a loving same-sex couple that is
married is a better situation for children than a divorced couple. Also, how is
it that people would say that a heterosexual that has been engaged in crimes
against society would make for a better parent than a homosexual person that
has never committed those types of atrocities against society.
The argument that angers me the most by anti-same-sex marriage crusaders is
the one that the majority of people that molest children are gay people. Their
conclusion is that gay people who get married and have children are more likely
to molest those children. In a Pediatrics ’94 Journal article, Dr. Carole Jenny
and her colleagues reviewed 352 medical charts, representing all of the
sexually abused children seen in the emergency room or child abuse clinic of a
Denver children's hospital during a one-year period, from July 1, 1991 to June
30, 1992. The molester was a gay or lesbian adult in fewer than 1% in which an
adult molester could be identified – only 2 of the 269 cases.
Let’s examine why same-sex marriage
should be allowed. Allowing
same-sex marriage would stop the discrimination of people’s basic civil rights,
strengthen the institution of marriage and society, and allow for what was not
seen as an abomination by the Lord.
In 1989, Denmark allowed for domestic
partnerships. 72% of the Danish clergy
argued that it was a bad idea. A survey of the Danish clergy in 1995 found that
89% of the Danish clergy admitted that the law was a good thing. It included a
reduction in suicide, sexually transmitted diseases and promiscuity and
infidelity among gay people. This “experiment” shows that same-sex marriage
could have the result in strengthening not just the institution of marriage,
but to the society as a whole. In 2010, Denmark passed a law saying that gay
and heterosexual marriages were the same in the eyes of the law.
An experiment at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Sweden
which is part of the National Academy of Sciences found in
brain scans that key structures of the brain governing emotion, mood, anxiety
and aggressiveness are alike in gay people of one sex and heterosexual people
of the other sex. The fact that it is a physiological difference between being
gay or straight means that not allowing the fundamental right to marry is
purely discriminatory. It is the 21st century form of racial
discrimination.
The biggest reason for my belief in why Gay Marriage should be legal is the
Bible and the relationship that Jonathan and David had. “And Saul said, I will
give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the
Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this
day be my son in law a second time.” (I Samuel 18:21, English Revised Version)
Saul had three children. Merab the eldest daughter,
Jonathan, Saul’s son, and Michal, the youngest daughter. David was never
married to Merab. The Bible says that David and Michal did marry. So that
leaves a marriage between David and Jonathan that was acknowledged by Saul. That
means that David, who is in the bloodline of Jesus Christ, became the King of
Israel and did the Lord’s bidding had a relationship that was an abomination in
the eyes of the Lord. That doesn’t make any sense in a Biblical sense because according to the Bible, the Lord would have seen David's relationship with Jonathan as an abomination and would have killed David. Israel would have lost the greatest king that it ever had and the promise of the Israelites would not have come to pass. So either God is a hypocrite in the homosexual way of life or man changed the Bible to cause the act of homosexuality to be taboo. We can't determine which one it is because we don't have the original transcripts. I tend to be on the side of human interference in the Bible because according to a Professor of Religious Studies at UNC@Chapel Hill, we have over 700 bibles written in Ancient Greece that scholars can study and no two say the same thing throughout the texts.How does that happen? Human interference.
