How Opponents to Gay Marriage Offer Illusory Arguments

In life, what we perceive tends to show misconception in how the thought plays out. A good example would be the character Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American classic: The Great Gatsby. Gatsby was unable to distinguish between his love for Daisy, a reality, versus the illusion that he could recapture her love by establishing and inventing a fraudulent past. He believed he could repeat the past, and acquire a flaunting wealth. In the novel, Jay Gatsby seems incompetent in establishing a difference between the realities of his life versus the illusion he made out.

Robert George is a Princeton professor, an adamant dissenter of same-sex marriage, and was a strong supporter of Proposition 8. One of the most prevalent arguments used by Robert George to combat same-sex marriage was the “’common procreation’ rationale” which was the idea that marriage should strictly be heterosexual due to the ability to procreate (401). On December 13, 2010, Slate.com published an article called “The Best Argument Against Gay Marriage: And Why It Fails.” This article was a counterargument made by Kenji Yoshino, a New York University Law professor. In this article, Yoshino states that Robert George and his co-authors’ argument that gay marriage should be banned due to same-sex couples’ inability to procreate is invalid because it is statistically flawed and it makes unintentional attacks on certain groups of opposite-sex couples.

In addition, myths and biases, unobserved and misleading cues, self-deception, and a failure to use the cognitive approach could have further complicated the process of deception

The focus of the book Don't Believe Everything You Think by Thomas Kida covers a large scope of reasoning methods and universal mistakes made while using those methods to reason on several issues whether it be serious or an everyday situation. Kida utilizes six focal points in the thought processes of humans in order to explain our faulty reasoning. These focal points were hence coined "The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking." In this book, Kida himself didn't conduct any research for this subject matter, instead he made us of a collection of past researchers with their findings and philosophers in order to strongly oppose and demean the six basic mistakes with already existing and well accepted evidence.

In The Invisible Gorilla, authors Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons demonstrate how our intuition can falsely lead us to fallacy. The ability to understand surroundings immediately without conscious reasoning permits misinterpretations, false judgements, and unclearness without us even realizing. Through experiments done in psychology, Chabris and Simons reveal much more about how we actually see our world compared to how we think we see it. As so many of us believe against, it is exceptionally true that we do not know how our minds work and why we behave the way we do. Our minds actually fool us and get us to believe misconceptions as being the truth. The Invisible Gorilla focuses on the six everyday “illusions” people undergo that affect

Although it may seem feasible for an individual to generate an inaccurate memory of an experienced event based on misinformation, it may not seem feasible for an individual to create a complete false memory of an event they have never experienced; however, research has shown that imagination can be a powerful source of false memories. In the imagination inflation effect, performed actions versus imagined actions are confused in hindsight. Humans also have the ability to imagine other people’s behavior. (Decety & Grezes, 2006).

Pollitt uses a series of analogies to convey that there is no substantial issue with permitting same-sex marriage. Furthermore, the comparisons she presents strengthen her argument and defend against possible counter-arguments. She attacks the notion of preventing homosexual marriage on the grounds of procreation and claims that the very idea is impractical. The law “allows married couples to use birth control, to get sterilized, to be celibate” (Pollitt 530). If marriages do not have to be based on ability to reproduce, then two individuals of the same gender

“Planting misinformation in the human mind: A 30-year investigation of the malleability of memory” was located by searching 'memory malleability' on Google Scholar. The article is written by Elizabeth F. Loftus, an expert in the field. Loftus summarizes research conducted by herself and others, with an aim to identify who is susceptible, what events increase susceptibility, can warnings reduce

Memory is unreliable over time, leading people into believing the things they are

Although many conservatives were and are still opposed to same-sex marriages, the struggle for marriage equality in America focuses on the right to marry. The United States Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) ruled that same-sex couples are guaranteed the fundamental right to marry by the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Therefore, legalizing same-sex marriages would be good for America as it would spur equality, promote family stability and validate LGBT family units as well as increase the number of children successfully adopted.

There are many controversies surrounding today's world, such as abortion, animal testing, and social reform issues. It seems that no one can come to a common agreement on the legitimacy of these topics. Personal characteristics, such as upbringing, culture, religion and ethnicity, all play a role in determining one's feelings on a given controversial issue. However, one of the most protested and discussed issues in current political debate is same-sex marriage. There is no right or wrong answer to this question, only hard pressed arguments expressing speculation regarding supposed outcomes, benefits and possible tribulations that would come along with the endorsement of gay marriage. Such ideas are shown

Though there are differences in the views of different faiths, conservative Protestants, the Catholic Church, Mormons, traditional Jews, and Muslims share two fundamental antigay arguments. The first is that homosexuality is wrong because it involves sex that doesn 't create life. In the case of Judaism, a key Bible passage is the story of Onan (Links to an external site.), who sleeps with his dead brother 's wife but, to avoid giving his brother offspring, doesn 't ejaculate inside her. Instead, he "spilt the seed on the ground." God slew him, which some might view as a sign of disapproval (Links to an external site.).The Catholic catechism decries (Links to an external site.) homosexual acts because "they close the sexual act to the gift of life." Early American antisodomy laws discouraged all forms of non-procreative sex (including, incidentally, heterosexual oral and anal sex). Islam shares a similar view. One Islamic hadith explains that Allah "will not look at the man who commits sodomy with a man or a woman." But if non-procreative sex is the issue, society started down the slippery slope not with the recent Supreme Court ruling but with production of the pill—or, really, even earlier, when birth control became common. We 've been into the non-procreative sex thing for some time now. Even most religious conservatives don 't have the heart to go after this. If sex without the possibility of creating life is wrong, then religious

In the reading, "Gay Marriage, Liberalism, and Recognition," the author, Jacob held argues that gay marriage should be recognized as legal because all arguments against gay marriage are not valid or compelling enough to deny rights and benefits to a whole group of people (pp.229).

Sam Schulman’s “The Worst Thing About Gay Marriage” presents an interesting argument against gay marriage that hinges upon maintaining a traditional form of marriage. He actually claims that gay marriage is “unnecessary”(381). According to Schulman, there are 4 primary effects of marriage within his definition he calls the kinship system. First, marriage protects and controls a woman’s sexuality. Second, the possible pairings are limited by the kinship system to avoid incest or other taboos. Third, marriage creates a situation where licit sex can occur. Fourth, it places a clear divide between childhood innocence and adult, married, life. All of which is in addition to maintaining a standard family hierarchy, in which a marriage almost

People are born homosexual. If you are homosexual you cannot get married. That idea is ridiculous. On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution guarantees the right for same-sex couples to marry. Marriage is defined as a sacred bond of love between two people. Gay people also feel love therefore, they should be allowed the same rights as everyone else in this country. Homosexuality is an accepted lifestyle nowadays with a proven biological causation. The only thing that should matter in marriage is love and denying them this is a violation of religious freedom.