The Issue Of Gay Marriage

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,

There are many important ethical disputes that have been in the forefront of American politics within this last year. Same-sex marriage is a debatable topic that attracts many responses from those supporting and those opposing the issue. People who dispute gay marriage believe it is morally wrong, while gay rights activists believe that all marriages be treated equally. This dispute is put into several different lights including morals, family values and religion; and those of equality, constitutionality.

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This essay debates the issue of same sex marriage in the United States. It considers the pros and cons and examines the constitutional issues involved.

If you cannot beat them join them, this commonly used phrase is overlook and ignored by many. The power and value of this simple phrase holds in todays society is quite astonishing. Individuals ban together for a cause, influencing society and then enacting legislature to allow authoritive figures to enforce the common cause. Louisiana is a perfect example of this. The state lost government funding when they did not raise the drinking age. By pressuring, or as some say punishing, the federal government was able to use their authority to force Louisiana to coincide with the rest of the nation. More recently states are slowly but surely legalizing Gay Marriage. This is also an example of how slowly individual states are acknowledging the

A recent article from The Atlantic, “The Case for Getting Married Young”, discusses the right time to get married. The author, Karren Swallow Prior talks about advantages and disadvantages of delaying to married and the change of someone marriage's reason. Although studies cited by the author is correct, in real life this case actually depends on who decides to marry at an early age because no one can guarantee will succeed or will be failed.

I feel like an adult’s diverse lifestyle has made significant changes from the past to now. Progressively the ages of which someone gets married has increased. According to the external reading Emerging adults: The in-between age, “50 years ago, the median age for marriage was 22 for men and 20 for women; now, the median age for marriage has climbed past 28 for men and edged above 24 for women” (Munsey 2006). An example I want to give is my grandparents and parents. My grandparents got married at the young ages of 18 and 19 in 1949. In contrast, my parents got married at ages 34 and 39 in 1994. I also have other friends who have been together for a long time and not get married until their late 20’s/30’s. I think the reasoning why couples are waiting longer to get married, is that they want to establish themselves both professionally and financially. They want to make sure that they have their priorities straight, before marriage and having kids. I do not think that this is a bad thing, as I believe these things

Gay marriage is one of the most controversial issues in this modern world. In my opinion I do not consider “gay marriage” marriage, because marriage has always been a covenant between a man and a woman by its nature. When two men or two women “marry” it denies the reputation of keeping the human race and the raising of children. Gay marriage also violates the natural law, and we should follow “avoid evil and do good”, the natural law is for every human being in the world and we should follow it by marrying the opposite sex. I believe that Gay marriage is one of the most unfavorable law that could of happen. I am against this law because not only it breaks the natural law but it also brings more diseases to homosexual people and instead

There has been many changes over the years in our culture on the viewing of getting married and starting a family. One example of this is rather than people getting married they are cohabiting with each other rather than committing themselves to marriage. One of the main reasons for this fact is that many twentysomthings see this as a end to their freedom and that things are going to start getting serious. But there are still people getting married but it at later times in their life.

Most Americans don’t marry young, more Americans are cohabitating before marriage, unmarried with children, not all marriages are created equal, and it’s true that the divorce rate is at fifty percent, but it does not mean what you might think…

To borrow a phrase from the 1980's, young women simply have to "say no to marriage." Not only is it unnecessary, but a bad habit as well.

One of the main reasons for divorce is marrying too young. Couples are racing to the altar without even realizing the amount of commitment and sacrifice a marriage takes consists of. Marrying in your teens increases your chances for divorce dramatically. Waiting until your mid-twenties to marry provides couples a stronger chance of success. For example, by that age most individuals have obtained a college degree and are working within their career and are more financially stable. People in their twenties are more mature, can handle marital struggles better, and make more intelligent decisions. When couples marry too young, such as their early twenties, they still do not have a sense of

Is age at marriage associated with your chances of getting a divorce? This is the question that I decided to research. On the surface it seems like age shouldn’t matter, after all it is only a number, but age is also indicative of other markers in life such as maturity and stability. Older ages are most often associated with emotional maturity and a stable personality. Young people often have fluid personalities as they are trying to understand the world and figure out who they are. When expectations of a partner are different than reality or if one spouse experiences a major change in their personality, the marriage is likely to dissolve (Lehrer, 2008). It is no surprise that “marriages contracted during the teens are known to be highly unstable” (Lehrer, 2008, p. 467). This leads to higher rates of divorce because of the lack of skills to work through the marital problems and it seems easier to just break up.

Couples should not decide to get married at a young age. An instance that may facilitate marriage at an early age is teen a pregnancy. In such an instance, the young couple may find themselves pressured to get married by parents, society and one an other. Marriage at such a young age is not likely to be successful for a host of different reasons but the most significant is that the individuals in the relationship have yet to develop key interpersonal communication skills vital to the marriage. This key skill necessary to maintaining a healthy marriage is still developing at young stages in their lives. The inability to communicate clearly between the two partners may lead to erosion in a marriage.

If you are a teenager and are seriously considering an early marriage, these are a number of potential problem areas of which you should be aware, so that, if you do decide that this is the best course of action, you will be alert to the possible difficulties which could lie ahead.