A Not Social Issue, Issue

Gay rights is a topic I personally would not consider an issue, but because there are some people that do not believe it is right, that word will just have to do. Gay rights is an "issue" I find important because we are limiting people just because of a way they are. It is similar to when we discriminated towards african americans just because of their color. Here we are discriminating gay people just because of who they love. We limit them by not letting them get married in some states, which leads to other limitations as well.

Marriage is defined as "the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex... " People that are against gay marriage say that it is "unconstitutional". People that aren't against it agree that gay people should have the same rights and the same "legal benefits" as anyone else. I think that although the definition of marriage only states that it is between male and female, change is something that is always a part of the world. What we think is weird or not right now, might be in a few decades. Just like gay people were not accepted before, they are starting to now.

The limitation of marriage, limits family rights too. Without a sturdy foundation of marriage, adopting a child must be harder, to both support the child and in cases of divorce for custody. Adoption alone is not even an option, in most places. People that believe gays should not adopt believe that they can not provide "the upbringing of a traditional family". But what is a traditional family mean? And whatever it is, two people no matter what genders, can most definitely be qualified to raise a child.

Articles On Gay Rights:

Marriage:

http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S44-4241-0-709&artno=0000307415&type=ART

Adoption: http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S44-4241-0-709&artno=0000307414&type=ART