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PART 2: HOW does SOCIETY BENEFIT FROM GAY MARRIAGE?

How would you respond to this argument.
Again, writing a paper. Thanks.
The debate over whether the state ought to recognize gay marriages has thus far focused on the issue as one of civil rights. Such a treatment is erroneous because state recognition of marriage is not a universal right. States regulate marriage in many ways besides denying men the right to marry men, and women the right to marry women. Roughly half of all states prohibit first cousins from marrying, and all prohibit marriage of closer blood relatives, even if the individuals being married are sterile. In all states, it is illegal to attempt to marry more than one person, or even to pass off more than one person as one’s spouse. Some states restrict the marriage of people suffering from syphilis or other venereal diseases. Homosexuals, therefore, are not the only people to be denied the right to marry the person of their choosing.

No, it is not a universal right, however, a partnering of homosexuals cannot lead to stronger likelihood for genetic deformities, I have yet to see a state actually prohibit a marriage based on venereal diseases (though there may be laws for it, it may not be upheld), and a homosexual couple would likely be very capable of supporting each other (unlike one person marrying several people most likely).

Some argue that the whole purpose of marriage is for children, what about those people who get married and never have children, either through choice or through genetic issues? There are some homosexual couples who are quite healthy (mentally, financially, etc.) who would want to raise a child (here goes the gay adoption plug). It has been shown in studies that children raised by homosexual couples tend to be more open-minded and accepting of people. There are how many children in the foster care system who would love a home? Yet many straight couples “want their own,” or don’t want any. Or, they have the problem that they don’t fall into the right income bracket.

As someone asked in the other one, how does heterosexual marriage benefit society? They raise children? Not all of them do, and homosexuals can if they wished and were shown to be healthy parents. They pay joint taxes? Yet another thing that would come from gay marriage, the marriage taxes and all the benefits/fallbacks of being married.

If I happened to have a young man that I fancied enough to want to marry, but then could not, then he got into an accident where only family could see him, guess who would be left out of the equation…me. I would not be considered family, I would have to wait, while he lay potentially dying, without me. I would not be able to bring over someone from a foreign country whom I had decided to be with, because even the civil ceremonies don’t give me that kind of right.

So really, how does society benefit from anyone’s marriage? I know that attorneys benefit from all of the divorces that come from straight marriages.

If you want to work on a report, why not do your own research rather than asking for that of others? Here’s a source that I got by typing “gays benefit society” in Google, what a shocker:

http://media.www.dailylobo.com/media/storage/paper344/news/2007/03/02/Opinion/Gay-Marriage.Benefits.Society-2754752.shtml

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