preview

What's Wrong With Gay Marriage?

Decent Essays
Open Document

Gay Marriage and its Issues
Gay marriage has been an issue for a very long time and since some states are legalizing it, many worry that it would soon be added as an amendment. The topic of gay marriage brings up religious, legal, and many other issues. In "What's wrong with Gay Marriage?" by Katha Pollitt, the author supports gay marriage and wants it legalized. She states that there is no problem with gay marriage and it's all a matter of separating the church and state. But in “Gay ‘Marriage’: Societal Suicide,” by Charles Colson, the author opposes the idea of gay marriage and states that it will destroy society. Marriage is intended to unite a man and a woman together to bring children into the world, but due to the same-sex marriage, …show more content…

572). She mostly ignores the religious issues and states that what really matters isn’t religion but what the government says.
But in “Gay ‘Marriage’: Societal Suicide,” the author says that religious beliefs are what matter because God, created man and woman to marry each other and not the same sex. “History and tradition—and the teachings of Jews, Muslims, and Christians—support the overwhelming empirical evidence: The family, led by a married mother and father is the best available structure for both child rearing and cultural health” (Gay “Marriage”: Societal Suicide 578). Religion teaches what is morally right and wrong and what God wants. He states that it’s a natural moral of a family to have a father and mother to raise the children. If one is missing, the family is broken and chaotic. The author has a solid claim that relates to society because most people are religious and follow the teachings of their religion. Although Pollitt disagrees that gay marriage would affect society, Charles thinks differently. He states that if gay marriage is legalized then society would collapse. Many families would break apart and children would be raised in a society where family doesn’t matter. He adds in his own experience of when he was a prison minister and how he saw families being destroyed and that most of the prisoners were delinquents. Those delinquents didn’t have both parents by their side and were raised by single parents. He also adds statistics of boys who

Get Access