gay marriage 作文

Gay Marriage
In recent years, the debate over same-sex marriage has grown from an issue that occasionally arose in a few states to a nationwide controversy, reverberating in the halls of Congress, at the White House, in dozens of state legislatures and courtrooms, and in the rhetoric of election campaigns at both the national and state levels.
Same-sex marriage is a civil rights, political, social, moral, and religious issue in many nations. The conflicts arise over whether same-sex couples should be allowed to enter into marriage, be required to use a different status, or not have any such rights. For my part, although I will never become a lesbian, I support the same-sex marriage, because love is a natural and free thing, same-sex couples should have the equal rights as opposite-sex couples.
According to a survey, nearly seventy percent of people in the U.S. oppose gay marriage, almost the same proportion as are otherwise supportive of gay rights. This means that many of the same people who are even passionately in favor of gay rights but also oppose gays on this one issue. There are some reasons why people cannot accept homosexuality.
First, people have a conventional idea that marriage is an institution between one man and one woman. But now, the definition of "marriage" is changed. Marriage has no boundaries of nation, race, age and even sex.
It seems to me that if the straight community cannot show a compelling reason to deny the institution of marriage to gay people, it shouldn't be denied.
People may say same-sex marriage would threaten the institution of marriage. I think it's not. If you allow gay people to marry each other, you no longer encourage them to marry people to whom they feel little attraction, and thereby reduce the number of supposed heterosexual marriages that end up in the divorce courts.
There are also many people who think marriage is for procreation. Procreation maybe an important part of marriage, but not whole absolutely. If that's the case, the infertile couples are not allowed to marry. People may also argue that same-sex couples aren't the optimum environment in which to raise children. But the fact is that many gay couples raise children adopted from heterosexual marriages because of their failed attempts. Lots and lots of scientific studies have shown that the outcomes of the children raised in the homes of gay and lesbian couples are just as good as those of straight couples. Psychologists tell us that what makes the difference is the love of the parents, not their gender. The studies are very clear about that gay people are as capable of loving children as fully as anyone else.
Same-sex marriage is an untried social experiment. The American critics of same-sex marriage betray their provincialism with this argument. The fact is that a form of gay marriage has been legal in Denmark since 1989 (full marriage rights except for adoption rights and church weddings, and a proposal now exists in the Danish parliament to allow both of those rights as well), and most of the rest of Scandinavia from not long after. A survey conducted at the time revealed that 72 percent of Danish clergy were opposed to the law. But the change in the attitude of the clergy there has been dramatic——a survey conducted in 1995 indicated that 89 percent of the Danish clergy now admit that the law is a good one and has had many beneficial effects, including a reduction in suicide, a reduction in the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and in promiscuity and infidelity among gays. So perhaps we should accept the fact that someone else has already done the "experiment" and accept the results as positive.
In addition to what I have listed, there are other arguments on this issue, like homosexuality would undermine civilization. In my opinion, civilization is concerned with culture or spiritual outlook of our people, not who you marriage.
As we have seen, the debate on gay marriage will be go on. So let's get on with it. Let's get over our aversion to what we oppose for silly, irrational reasons, based on ignorance and faulty assumptions, and make ours a more just and honorable society, finally honoring that last phrase from the Pledge of Allegance "With liberty and justice for all."。