English 203
Ms. Dania
Adra
24 October
2015
Gay Marriage
“Gay
marriage is not a civil rights issue; it is a question of whether or not there
exists a compelling enough interest for the government to subsidize and
encourage gay marriage” (Normandin). Gay marriage has been a very controversial
issue in the past few decades. In fact, homosexuality has always been
considered as some sort of taboo. There have been many arguments against the
Same-Sex marriage, but the arguments in the article written by Ryan Normandin
were slightly different. And since I have a very doubtful personality, I’ve
made it my mission to refute his argument. According to Ryan, gay marriage
shall not be legalized because “states have laws regulating marriage,
forbidding first cousins from marrying, brothers and sisters from marrying,
parents and offspring from marrying, and people from marrying animals,
inanimate objects, or multiple other individuals”. In his opinion, marriage should
be a marriage that benefits the state by what he called “procreation”; something
gay marriage does not provide. Allowing myself to be a bit aggressive, I shall
argue that first, allowing same-sex marriage does not imply a social
deterioration towards allowing marriage between siblings, animals, etc.
Allowing gay marriage simply aims to giving homosexuals the access to the same
marriage laws as any heterosexual couple. I would like to shed the light on the
weakness of the “procreation” argument. Many heterosexual couples refrain from
reproducing, but they are still granted their rights in marriage. Marriage is an
institution that units two humans under the name of love. Marriage is not a factory
that produces children! After all, marriage is only a societal institution, the natural world did not create marriage; humans did.
That is why all humans should be granted that right.
In
his article, Ryan also includes another argument which is concerned with the wellbeing
of the children that are going to be raised by the married homosexual couple. He
says, “Regarding families where the father is absent, research by University of
Canterbury professor Bruce J. Ellis has shown that, “greater exposure to father
absence was strongly associated with elevated risk for early sexual activity
and adolescent pregnancy”.” For the sake of a healthy upbringing, parents from
different sexes is crucial. It is very important for children, especially during
their complicated Libido stages to have a mother and a father to guide them
healthily through it. This does not question the eligibility of a homosexual
couple, but it’s just the way it is. “An increasing body of evidence shows that
it is indeed more advantageous for children to grow up having both a mother and
a father.” I fully agree with this argument because “we cannot put the
“enhanced happiness” that same-sex couples would get from raising a child above
the well-being of that child.”
Works Cites
Normandin,
Ryan. "Gay Marriage Should Not Be Made Legal - The Tech." The Tech. 6
July 2011. Web. 24 Oct. 2015.
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