Marriage Private By Stephanie Coontz

The Ninth Amendment is one of the most crucial in the Bill of Rights. It states, “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people,” (“A Guide to the Ninth” 1). As mentioned before, it

In today’s society, the notion and belief of growing old, getting married, having kids, and a maintaining of a happy family, seems to be a common value among most people. In Kevin Brockmeier’s short story, “The Ceiling,” Brockmeier implies that marriage is not necessary in our society. In fact, Brockmeier criticizes the belief of marriage in his literary work. Brockmeier reveals that marriage usually leads to or ends in disaster, specifically, all marriages are doomed to fail from the start. Throughout the story, the male protagonist, the husband, becomes more and more separated from his wife. As the tension increases between the protagonist and his wife, Brockmeier symbolizes a failing marriage between the husband and wife as he depicts

The Ninth Amendment offers a protection to the American people, expressing that Americans have more inherent, fundamental rights beyond those that are listed in the Bill of Rights. Even though the first ten amendments to the Constitution were approved to ensure all citizens were granted the same basic freedoms all persons should have, the Ninth Amendment was instrumental in the foresight towards the future and enumerable rights. Though the Amendment was written out of concern that the Bill of Rights would not in fact cover fundamental human rights, the Amendment is still left to the courts to determine exactly what rights the Amendment does and does not protect. Despite many of the other Amendments within the Bill of Rights explicitly stating rights of the Federal Government and protections of the American people, the Ninth Amendment is more open-ended and left to the judgment of an enforcer.

The definition of marriage has changed over time. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the United States defined marriage as a union between a consenting man and woman, of non-African decent (Stahlberg, 2008, p. 443). This, however, changed after the civil war. In 1868 two consenting adults of opposite gender could marry someone of the same race, but this was also restructured in 1967 to allow marriage of all consenting adults of opposite genders regardless of race (Stahlberg, 2008, p. 443). Today, the law looks very different. Recently, on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have the right to marriage (gay marriage, 2015).

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,

Marriage in the United States, up until the early 1800’s, was a soley private matter. Two individuals were considered “wed” by their peers and religious

Traditional wedding vows state, “I, (name), take you (name), to be my (wife/husband), to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part”(Callaway). Marriage is defined as two people bond together legally under the protection of laws. Couples are able to express and establish their life long relationships officially, publicly, and permanently. Due to the fact that homosexual relationships are increasingly more accepted by the public, gay marriage has become one of the most controversial topics throughout the US. The fundamental human right of marriage should not be limited to a man and a woman;

Marriage is a fundamental right that everyone has, and it is protected by our government, who gives minority groups rights in order to protect themselves against complete control.

In the article “Taking Marriage Private,” Stephanie Coontz says that we should go back to original marriage traditions in the United States. With original marriage traditions, the church tells people what is respectful and lawful. It is up to the people after that to figure out whether they want their marriage legalized. If their marriages are legal with a license, then they are able to have stability and liability.

In the U.S., marriage is a binding contract between two people. The decision to get married is made individually and not set up or decided upon by the government. The government has the ability to place rules or laws around marriage, but should stop short of directing or promoting marriage.

With this system all types of marriages would be available based on what MC you decided fits your moral standards. For some it may be a corporation that accepts same-sex marriage and for some it may be a marriage without any divorce solution. Governments and corporations may limit the types of MCs that they recognize for benefits purposes; however these decisions of what corporations to accept for benefits, would be based solely on what would benefit the economy and society. Also in 2006, Jewish libertarian Michael R. Paley author of When Secularism Becomes a Religion advocates the privatization of marriage,

Though its evolved over time, marriage has existed for centuries. Most people have thought about getting married, and what their wedding day might entail. They’ve imagined the details of the person that they’ll share their “I do’s” with, their guests, and even their wedding attire. What shouldn’t need to be considered is a society that prohibits consenting adults from exchanging their vows. For same-sex couples, the fight to legally wed was an ongoing issue for decades. Fortunately, in 2015, the Supreme Court of Justice passed the law allowing same-sex couples to marry in all fifty states. Although there are opposing views, marriage is a basic right for all adults, and same-sex marriage provides necessary benefits to a couple’s family and their legal rights.

Gay Marriage 2Gay MarriageToday, the society is having a lot of change. One of those changes is where people of the same sex want to be married. Same sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is a marriage either as a secular civil ceremony or in a religious setting. In 2001 a law was passed that allowed gay marriage. In 22 July 2016, 19 out 194 countries allow same sex couple to marry nationwide legally. In United States gay marriage is a right protected by the US Constitution in all fifty states. It is already legal in thirty-seven states, but banned in the remaining thirteen. Same sex marriage is currently one of the most diverse political issues in our nation. People deserve to be happy and should be able to choose how. Gay marriage should be allowed in the entire country of the United States, people should have the right to be happy, live without fears, and live without discrimination. Same sex marriage is currently one of the most diverse political issues in the nation. Furthermore, the situation with gay couples, as parenting and as marrying will help people to think about this topic and what is going on today with

Marriage is both a civic and religious institution, and the question of whether the state should be able to regulate marriage is hence quite interesting. On the one hand, America believes in a separation of church and state. On the other, it believes in freedom and equality, and to uphold these for same-sex couples in the form of same-sex marriage, it would have to interfere with the religious institution of marriage. I believe that same-sex couples should have every right to get married, because married couples receive a number of federal and state benefits, and denying these benefits to someone because of their sexuality goes against the ideal of equality. Several of the arguments against same-sex marriage tend to be moralistic or religious. Some say that same-sex marriage brings disadvantages to the children that come from these marriages. However, same-sex couples are more likely to adopt than heterosexual couples, and their children tend to fare equally well socially as compared to children of heterosexual couples (whatweknow.com). If a religious group does choose to discriminate against a group of people, this discrimination should not reflect in political institutions that claim to be separate from the state. In my opinion, marriage as a civic institution should be accessible to any two consenting adults, regardless of factors like sex, race, and class.

Historic change in American matrimony is especially pronounced in three areas: the equalizing of the respective rights and duties of wives and husbands, the dissolution of marital prohibitions based on race, and the evolution from state-defined grounds for divorce to couple-defined no fault divorce. The most recent area of debate is whether the state should sanction marital consent between same-sex couples. Although such a prospect is unthinkable to some, earlier forms of legal marriage are equally unimaginable now.