Therefore, they also have the right to get married like normal people. ... Allowing gays get married means allowing two men or two women live together like normal couples. ... For instance, The Netherlands is the first country in the world where people of the same sex are allowed to get married with the same legal status as heterosexual couples (Radio Netherlands, 2000). ... Biologically, they are the same gender, so there is no hope for them to get real happiness from hearing baby's cry. ...

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If the couple is not married, whom does the child go to? ... Gay couples from around the country ventured off to California to get married. ... Considering that there is a fifty/fifty chance a heterosexual couple will stay married or get divorced, maybe it's not right for us to determine who should be getting married in the first place. People get married all the time in Las Vegas and many marry because of what the other person can do for them. Many people get divorced once, or maybe more times and then remarry again. ...

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Homosexuality Should Not be an Issue How would you feel if you found your soul mate and you were ready to get married, then some one told you, you could not? ... Therefore homosexuals should be able to get married. ... Homosexuals do not only want to get married because of the benefits. ... Homosexuals have the same reasons to get married that other people do. ... There are some people who feel that being homosexual and getting married would be like messing with nature and legalizing same sex marriages could be harmful to society. ...

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The last matter I am going to talk about is whether two people of the same sex get married should they be able to adopt a child if they desire. ... When two people love each other enough to get married, that is very special. ... If all they want is to get married to each other what is the harm in that. ... Their argument is that the reason people get married and have sex is to procreate and if two people of the same sex are getting married they defiantly cannot pro-create. ... If they do choose to go all the way and get married they should be able to. ...

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In the past, just the idea of two people of the same sex being involved was considered taboo, let alone them actually getting married. ... One woman says that, "there is no possible way for them to help with the continuation of the species, so why should they bother getting married?" ... Silverstein states that if people are going to view a gay couple as a couple, then, "why not let them get married?" ... In my opinion, if all men and women are created equal, then why can't gay people get married in the United States? Homosexual couples must have the right to get married. ...

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Legally married employees receive higher compensation than unmarried or illegally married employees, and legally married people get more benefits from health and dental insurance. While the law prohibited homosexual couples to legally marry, the couples then do not receive benefits like the heterosexual couples even when they already live together or when they, themselves, believe to be a married couples like other married heterosexual couples. ...

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I am going to talk about three issues that effect same-sex marriage first it is their choice of sexual orientation, how does same-sex marriage effect the children, and lastly my whole argument gay and lesbians should be allowed to get married everywhere in the U.S. ... That make well over 1,049 in which homosexual's in sense get ripped off, by not being allowed to be married within the confines of the U.S. ... I cannot see why our government will not allow homosexuals to be married. ... All they are asking for is to get married so they can live together for the rest of their lives wit...

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In Northwest Washington, there was couple that wanted to get married, and there was a lot of talk of these two, not because they wanted to get married because they were denied the blessing of the Episcopal Church. ... They said that any same sex couple that wanted to get married, should be given a marriage license immediately. ... Gay marriage seems to be getting a whole lot of support in many countries, except the United States. ... The weddings continued, in February 2004, the mayor of New Paltz in New York, began marrying same sex couples, in march that same year, gays were starting to get ...

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King, who was an unfortunate victim of racial profiling, cried out, "Can't we all just get along?" I think the reason we all cannot get along is racial discrimination. ... Although many same-sex couples are involved in committed relationships and assume the same responsibilities that married people do, they do not receive the full legal and financial advantages that married couples have. ... They cannot adopt children because of their sexual preference and they cannot get married because marriage is viewed as an institution between a man and a woman. ... Because they cannot adopt children...

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One right, which every human has, is the right to get married. ... If it should be left up to anyone to decide to get married it should be the couple themselves not the government or society. Pressures from the government, religions, and society in general cause hardships for those homosexuals who want to get married, which is in the wrong for our modern society to think and impose on homosexuals. ...

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Our family members all send Christmas cards to both of us, just like we are a married couple. ... As homosexuals, we should have the right to fall in love, get married, and raise a family if we so choose. ... Society leads us to believe that a child is best brought up in a stable household with a mother and a father, usually a married couple, be it biological or step parents. ... Even that the feeling of your loved one becoming ill and you could not take off work to be with them because legally you are not married. ... Before the insurance companies make the concession to allow or recogni...

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For instance, Blanche seeks for an adequate man to get married and make her living. ... She wants to get married with Mitch not because she's in love with him but for her economic security. ... For example, women who were not married over 30's used to be called "old maids". So, Blanche strives to get married to raise her social status. ... If women had been equal to men as today, they wouldn't have accepted the conditions they encountered with, such as Stella could get divorced with Stanley, because he keeps applying physical violence on her. ...

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I can understand WHY Gays want to get married, because they are in love, but then, if you do get married, all they are doing is proving how selfish and self-centered they are. ... Why would you still do it when you get nothing out ass of it except discrimination and hate? ...

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The biggest debate that is happening today concerning homosexuals is whether or not they should have the right to get married. ... However, one can argue that homosexual marriage would lead to people in other types of "non traditional" relationships attempting to get married as well. ... Those couples would get married for the ability to adopt. Homosexuals also have the choice of getting a surrogate who would have the couple's baby for them and would get paid for all the medical expenses and for using the woman's body for nine months. ... Homosexuals are just like hetero...

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Gay marriage is a topic that I am sure that most people frown upon on, and when hearing the news of a gay couple getting married, they would look at both of them in complete horror, with a look of disgust painted across their faces. ... Gays should therefore have the rights to be able to marry their significant other and should deserve just as many rights as an 'ordinary' married couple have. ... Some of them get so affected, that they start to have suicidal thoughts. ...

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The greatest legal advantage to gay marriages are primarily in the states of Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey and California, where couples can specifically define the most critical decisions in any married couples' life. ... There is no residency requirement in California to gain a license for marriage and this is one of the main reasons gay couples from around the U.S. travel to San Francisco to get married (Black, Sanders, Taylor, 2007). ... Second, there are the many limitations to the married couples' rights and their ability to gain shared ownership of priority in 46 o...

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Couples like Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka prove that gay marriage has just as much meaning as any straight marriage, they have been happily together since 2006, married since 2014 and have started a beautiful happy family together. ... I wasn't aware that every straight couple who married in America was required to produce children, nor was I aware that we don't allow infertile straight people to get married. ...

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She was married for a couple of years with her first husband with whom she had a male child. ... For the entire family it seemed as if she would never be able to get married again. ... The situation probably would have been much different if my aunt would have married when my cousin was much younger. ...

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There are several benefits that are awarded only legally married couples. ... Many couples from out of state are getting a civil union in Vermont, and some are then fighting for recognition in their own state under the "Full Faith and Credit" clause of the U.S. ... Hard as it is to fathom, homosexuals want to get married for the same reason that heterosexuals do -- love. ... Fortunately, things are getting better and hopefully equality will soon be available to everyone...even homosexuals....

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This is apparent through three things; divorce rates are higher than ever and continue to grow; there is a total lack of discipline for youths; and with new laws in place, gay people are legally allowed to be married. ... Also, by seeing their parents separately, the child can be left wondering if one parent loves them more because they live with them the majority of the time, or because they get better presents from one of them. ... In the past, if a student did something wrong, they would get a beating with a ruler. ... Historically, if a child would get out of line or do something wr...

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Despite mass public same sex wedding ceremonies, families living as married couples, sometimes with children, and outspoken advocates for the equal right to marry, the law hasn't changed as of yet. ... More and more people are starting to realize that there are far more important things to worry about in life than two dykes who want to get married and enjoy the same legal benefits and responsibilities that married heterosexual couples have. ... They claim that if gay men and lesbians are allowed to be married, their constitutional rights will be violated as homosexuality is a sin in their...

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There are many benefits in this society that are only available to married individuals. ... If straight couples still cheat in their marriage, who is to say that if homosexuals married, there would be no cheating. ... They can pronounce those feelings within the civil unions and share them as married couples do. ... The definition of marriage that everyone is trying to get rid of is necessary otherwise the options are endless. ... I also believe that a law allowing gay marriage would increase the number of joke or non-serious marriages, such as a couple of friends who want to get married n...

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Boy meets girl, girl meets boy. boy kisses girl, girl kisses back they fall in love, get married and have 2.8 kids and a summer house on the jersey shore. I know that's not how it always is, but that is what people want to believe. boys are supposed to like girls and girls are supposed to like boys because that's they way it was supposed to be. that's the way we grew up, learning that little girls should be prim and proper, to grow up in to beautiful young women and then get married to a handsome young man only to get pregnant and take care of 2.8 screaming kids, soccer games, b...

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As a result, there continues to be an influx of homosexual and lesbian couples to San Francisco to become legally married and then carry this status back to their individual states. They are doing this to be able to provide health care and other benefits typically given only to married couples. ... Not only does a continual misrepresentation of ones' gender happen with great regularity, there is also the issue of social security numbers, aligning identities when an event does occur that forces a same-sex couple to admit their misrepresentation of themselves there had been...

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He must get married to a woman, own property and attain to "manly" things. ... He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married; meaning, in his country's phrase, that we were bosom friends; he would gladly die for me, if need should be. (56) If someone clasps you to them and declares that you're married, you usually don't interpret that as meaning best friends forever. ... However, Ishmael was delighted by the id...

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