Women’s Suffrage Movement (1848-1920). Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968). Gay Rights Movement (1924-present). If you are currently living in the present, you should know that the gay marriage controversy is a real thing. Can you believe that? Why does humanity have such a hard time accepting equality.
Lets try to define marriage. You can try as you might but you can’t define something relative to its culture. You can’t define something that pre-dates history which also has changed over time. There is no such thing as traditional marriage. Given the prevalence of modern and ancient examples of family arrangements based on polygamy, communal child-rearing, the use of concubines and mistresses and the commonality of prostitution, heterosexual monogamy can be considered "unnatural” in evolutionary terms.
Marriage has been a huge part of religion. Some people believe that marriage is a religious ritual therefore support their arguments against gay marriage with religious teachings. No one is forcing churches to perform same-sex marriages, but America is not a theocracy. Marriage in the modern age is not just a religious ceremony, it is a legal status. You can’t make religious rules into laws that apply to everyone.
Its not a very long controversy once you take out religion. I have yet to find any decently formulated counterarguments which don’t tie into religion in some way. Other then that, I think we can all agree that gay marriage does not hurt anyone or society.
http://gaymarriage.procon.org
http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-gay-marriage-be-legalized
http://www.gaymarriagehq.com/5-reasons-why-gay-marriage-should-be-legal-62/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0761909.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955–68)
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html
http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/politically-incorrect/homosexuality/10-reasons-why-homosexual-marriage-is-harmful-and-must-be-opposed.html
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