gay people are great.

My opinion on Gay Marriage... It’s hard to feel strongly about an issue when it does not affect your everyday life. That’s how I feel about gay marriage. So many people have extreme opinions, from one side of the spectrum to the other, about why or why not gay marriage should be legal, but I think that if the issue does not directly affect a person, they should not have such an opinion. The same is true for opinionate men on abortions (but I won’t get into that). However, although I do not feel strongly about gay marriage, I feel strongly about intolerance and discrimination, and that is the main issue here. I am going to write my paper basically supporting gay marriage, because I do not see why people have a problem with it. As of March 1^st, 2012, gay marriage has already been legalized in eight states. Yet 30 states ban gay marriage. I feel that this violates the 10^th amendment protection from state to state clause because if a couple were to get married in say Connecticut, would they be considered criminals in another state? It makes no sense. Also, we have banned discrimination in nearly all forms, from slavery to sexism, yet homosexuals still face intolerance in their daily lives. Who are we to violate the rights of human beings just like ourselves, because of something as miniscule as sexual preference? As for the argument that claims allowing gay marriage will open a door to marriages between species, that is pure absurdity. They could define marriage as a bond between two people and not have to worry about that strange concern. Another strong belief I have is that homosexuality is not a matter of choice. This is similar to racism- why should blacks be discriminated against when they were born into their race? Lots of gay people know they are gay from a very early age, and many try to fight it or hide it for as long as they can. This is not their fault, yet society teaches that these people are wrong and weird and must conform to the majority. On a more positive note, gay marriage can help the economy. More couples will want to adopt children, receive marital benefits, and even live longer (studies show that married couples have lengthened life spans). Many are against gay marriage because of the impossible reproductive aspect. Well, first of all the Earth already has too many people living on it so people should not be worried about that, and second doesn’t that mean that infertile couples should not be allowed to marry? Also, I found this cool fact online: Massachusetts, which became the first state to legalize gay marriage in 2004, had the lowest divorce rate in the country in 2008. I mean until 1967 interracial marriage was illegal, and now doesn’t that sound completely ridiculous? It’s only a matter of time until the leaders of our nation are forced to legalize gay marriage, but I say the sooner the better – we are treating these people unconstitutionally!