PG. 76 - 77 #1 A Practice Sequence:Identifying Issues

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There has been throughout the years a long debate about whether homosexuals should be allowed to get married or not. I believe, from personal experience that homosexuals should be allowed just as much privilege to be married to one another as do straight people. Many of my friends that are homosexual, have the same amount of love for their partner as do my heterosexual friends. Also, these people may not be able to have children with one another which is what is believed by some to be the point of marriage, but if we only get married to have children then many people are wrong, because when two people decide to get married they do it because they are in love, and then usually later on, comes a family.
On the website Letters2President.org I came across a letter by Donna N. Her whole letter supports my idea that Gay marriage should be accepted and that marriage is not about gender but is indeed about love. "Imagine being told you could not marry the person you love, your soul mate, because it does not follow the values of others. I know that my heart would be crushed..." This strikes a question within me. How can people go about making decisions for other people without putting themselves in the other person's shoes? Since we as humans are always told to accept everything, and to treat others as we would want to be treated. How can people find it in themselves to choose the life of another? Also, We as human beings should not label what is wrong and right in the case of love and marriage, even if it is a religious ceremony in some aspects. However, if the ceremony is so religious then how come Atheists and other religious types in the U.S. are allowed to get married?
I guess that people may make these decisions that impose others lives because they do not tend to think about how it hurts those people who cannot get married, because I bet that the people making the decisions are able to get married. Also, Gay marriage is probably just a really controversial issue for them and they are afraid of what would come out of it in the future if they were to allow for them to get married. As for why are Atheists among other religious groups allowed to perform marriage ceremonies in the U.S, maybe that has to do with the fact that, they are man and woman ceremonies, and that's really what the people care about, they do not care that participants do not partake in reading the Bible or following it even.