CE: Gay Marriage.

The topic Gay Marriage has been going around for a while now. 

            In recent years, the debate over gay marriage has grown from an issue nationwide controversy.  In the last five years, the debate over gay marriage has been heard in halls of the U.S. Congress, at the White House, in dozens of state legislatures and courtrooms, and election campaigns. In the last year alone, three states have banned same-sex marriage and four states have legalized the practice.

            In the beginning on April 2009, the Vermont legislature legalized same-sex marriage. By the end of May 2009, two other state legislatures, follows suits, bringing the total number of states that allow same-sex marriage to six. Finally in June 2009, President Barack Obama granted family medical leave and certain other benefits to the same-sex partners of federal workers. In November 2008, voters in California, Florida, and Arizona approved ballots initiatives amending their state constitutions to prohibit same-sex marriage, raising the total number of states that have passed such constitutional amendments to 29. Passage of Proposition 8 also prompted an entirely new court battle over whether the just-approved ballot initiative itself was constitutional.

I believe that there is absolutely nothing wrong the same sex marriage. They should be treated no differently than heterosexual partners and should be able to marry like anyone else. There shouldn’t be any discrimination and have equal treatment just because they’re attracted to the same sex. They should have the basic rights and the same privileges that heterosexuals encounter. After all, it is a free country; we should be satisfied with ourselves, of what we do, and of what choices we make. No one should choose who we should marry and who to be with, it’s our decisions. Let us choose, don’t choose for us.