Ashlie+Cutliff

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For most Americans marriage is a religious sacremant or ceramony: Many religious groups and people have found that children are better or more brought up by a regular opposite-sex married couple, With a mother and a father.
 * 1) Most boys and girls that are brought up from the opposite sex have the needs of others by the opposite sex from both parents.
 * 2) If the defenition of marriage is conflicted by same sex marriage then alot of religious groups and personel will be forced to marry a same sex couple . So then they won't have thier freedom of availibility . Which would violate peoples beliefs.
 * 3) In Washington D.C. thier is a law or court date about legalizing same sex marriage so people with the same sex can marry in chaples just like other people.
 * 4) People with a homosexual or bisexual orientation often describe themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual .But to some people gay and lesbian also mean being activly involved in political events to enthus same sex marriage . And equlity of rights and special laws for people of all sexual orienttations.
 * 5) Many religious groups and people don't enclose on the word marriage with qoutes so they won't make same sex marriage to be a real form of marriage for other people.

If and just when Same sex marriage is aproved then people might take their anger out on diffrent sexual orientationed people: []
 * 1) The benefits of gay marriage have changed the opinion and attitude of the many people in all of the other country's where the forms of gay marriage are legal, and have been for years.
 * 2) In 1989 when the contraversy first started the majority of the people in Denmark were aginast the fact . Now that somethings have changed many people are for the opposed opposite sex marriaging licenses.
 * 3) Many of the resons people are for and are not opposing the fact os gay sex marriage are based on the fact that gay or diffrent sexual orientation is because people can choose between which sex people are.
 * 4) If same sex marraige get's legalized then many of the other parts of things that are illegal like incest, identity theft , and alot of other things.
 * 5) Homosexuality would be called a type of civalization, and has always been a diffrent type . Many people have diffrent cultures but if same sex marriage is granted to the public so that it is legal then there would be a diffrent type of civilization for other people or the people that are homosexual , or have some type of diffrent sexuality.
 * 6) Many of the post articles in newspapers are treating this big controversy and not changing the fact that many people have still not made up their mind . The shifts of the magnetude don't understand that people who are gay or a diffrent sexuality can change their minds on wheather to stay homosexual or change to be heterosexual.

Marriage is for Porcreation and when a opposite sex couple has given up thier desion to not create anymore then that's their desion:
 * 1) Opposing to same sex marriage comes from a refusal to allow "marriage" to same sex couples or objections about the legal and publicity being put to an new kind . Other issues include direct and indirect social problems of same sex mariages, parenting concerns , religious grounds , tradition , and regular people.
 * 2) Many supporters of same sex marriage help out, or speak about straight people .And don't like the fact that they are being critized by other people because they like thier sex.
 * 3) If a regular, opposite -sex couple needs to make babies for more people in the planet then it should be needed . Same sex marriage show's no way of having children because their are no sperm going towards the eggs, that are produced .How will same sex marriage let more people into the world . Other than the people adopting the kids that they want.
 * 4) The fact that people aren't confertable with the idea stems primarily from the fact that for many years society has promoted the idea that a marraige between members of the same sex is ludacris.
 * 5) Societies have long relized that allowing cival right's to certain groups may affend some, and at times , even the majority . But that was why the constitutional government was established ;- to ensure that powerless, unpopular minorites are still protected from the tyranny of the majority.
 * 6) This argument betrays a considerable ignorance of behavior in the animal kingdom . The fact is that approximentally 1500 animal species behavior has been exstensivly studied, homosexual behaviors has been desribed in at least 450 diffrent species.

If the community wants to give them "special" rights then take some of the regualr rights of a homosexual person away:
 * 1) While there are some organized activitys on behalf of the rights of homosexuals in the first half of the 20th century, the modern gay rights movement is usually said to have begun with the stonewall riot.
 * 2) A number of groups formed to work for the repeal of laws prohibiting consenual homsexual conduct, for legislation barring desrimanation against gays in housing and employeement , and for greater acceptance of homsexuals among the rest of the population.
 * 3) At the national level of defense of marriage act restricts the federal defention of marriage to heterosexual couples .A number of american corporations how ever now offer same sex partners of employees medical benefits comparable to those offerd to employees spouses, about one fifth of all workers are employeed by these buisnesses.
 * 4) Meanwhile religious institutes have been struggling with the issues of gay marriage and the ordination of gay clergy . Worldwide laws relating to homosexuality varys widely.
 * 5) Only a few nations and some canadian provinces offer some form of official recignition to homosexual couples.
 * 6) Protecting these cival rights means that many activity's and relationships among citizens require no recignition in public law . For example friendships including those that are intament, and enduring have no standing in the law as institutions or orginazations.
 * 7) In addition to the rights of indaviduals, there are also rights of diffrent kinds . Associations , instatutes and also orginazations . All of these rights are able to show many diffrent things , and this is where humans and familys come in . The government can't do justice to human society if it does not distinguisha non-profit research center from a non-profit making industry.

Many children are brought up to marry the opposite-sex not the same: []
 * 1) If same sex marriage get's legalized by the govenment then many teachers would have to teach that it is a good thing have to marry the childs same sex . So whether they choose that desicion or not, it's up to them.
 * 2) When children are coming home and talking to their parents about what they learned that day, and the child talks about learning that it is a good thing to marry thier same sex . I bet you that the childs parent's will not be happy.
 * 3) Boy's and girl's were never told that you were even able to like another boy or even think about that . Only because they each seem like the other girl or boy . But when kids are very little like toddler they call it "coodies".
 * 4) This also could be related to some type of religious sin by likeing another person that is your sex . But maybe that is just something only older children would know.
 * 5) Rightnow schools are unable to talk about anything like that or the teachers would get fired . So many people don't see why it should all of a sudden come randomly up.
 * 6) Now what would the child say to other children if they had same-sex parents. Many of the kids would not care in elementry school but through middle school, and high school , after a little while then they would defenantly relize . That's when the kids would start to get teased.

Researches have found that many states in North America are legalizing Same Sex Marriage:
 * 1) The issue is also advancing in New Hampshire, where it has passed the state house and is waiting action by the Senate . As well as in Maine and New Jersey, which are debating same sex marriage legislation.
 * 2) The action in Vermont came swiftly, surprising even some of the proponents of gay marriage who were still celebrating their victory last Friday when the Iowa Surpreme Court ruled that same sex marriage could go ahead.
 * 3) New Jersey, which now allows civil unions for gay couples , is a particular surprise for advocates because of it's large size , and they are hoping for action this year after a commision in December , reccomended making marriage laws gender-neutral.
 * 4) New York recognizes same sex marriages performed in other states . Gov. David Patterson say's that he fully supports marriage rights for same-sex couples.
 * 5) Demestic partnerships are already legal in our nations capital, and gay couples married in other states are recognized as demestic partners when they move into the city together.
 * 6) Tuesday's legislation in Washington, D.C. was billed as important milestone in gay rights because it explicitly recognizes married couples from other states.

The people who think that thier right's should be special, are wrong. If your diffrent then stay that way don't change your mind: []
 * 1) The initial cousil vote was 12-0 . The random vote stay's for future debate of legalizing same-sex marriage in the distract -and a clash with congress . Which rules the city's laws under Home-Rule.
 * 2) The counsil is expected to take a final vote on the legislation next month.
 * 3) Some 43 states have laws prohibiting gay marriage . But only 29 of those with constitutional amendments specifically defining marriage between a man and a woman.
 * 4) Vermont has in recent years seen other states surpass it by legalizing same-sex marriage outright.
 * 5) The final vote was 100-94 to over ride the goveners veto . The inital vote last week was 94-52 . Vermont has no mechanism for a citizen referdum to over ride the law.
 * 6) Two houses for Vermont voted for a same-sex marriage bill - four votes short of a veto.

The growing of Same-sex Marriage:
 * 1) In recent years the debate over same sex marriage has grown from an issue that occasionally arose in a few states to a nationwide controversy.
 * 2) In the last five years the debate over gay marriage has in the halls of the U.S. Congress ,in the White House, and in many state legislatures and courtrooms and in alot of campiagns at national and state levels.
 * 3) In the last year alone, three states have banned same-sex marriage and four states have legalized the practice . As the debate rages on the american religious community remains deeply divided over the issue.
 * 4) The harms inflicted on lesbian and gay couples by being excluded from marriage are very real, and there is no substitute for marriage.
 * 5) While domestic partnership provides some protection, it falls short of genuine equality by any reasonable measure.
 * 6) The second argument we often hear is that studies show children benefit from being raised by married heterosexual parents, and that children are harmed by being raised in alternative families.
 * 7) Though some religions vocally oppose the marriages of same-sex couples, there are many religious bodies in America today that consecrate the marriage of same-sex couples including the United Church of Christ, Reformed Judaism, certain Buddhist communities, the Unitarian Universalist church and many others.

Are parent's opinions being violated because of the fact thier children are being conflicted with Same-Sex Marriage: []
 * 1) To same-sex couples who practice religion within these traditions, the religious sacrament of marriage is as central to their religious and social lives as it is to heterosexual couples whose marriages are recognized by thier religions.
 * 2) The second argument we often hear is that studies show children benefit from being raised by married heterosexual parents, and that children are harmed by being raised in alternative families.
 * 3) In fact, however, every single one of these studies has looked at single parent families, divorced families and step-parent families.
 * 4) There is not one study showing children are harmed in any way by having lesbian or gay parents.
 * 5) For the last twenty years the research that has been done shows on this issue that there is no diffrence between the children that have grown up with heterosexual parents to homsexual parents.
 * 6) What matters is that children are raised in a stable, loving environment.

Trying to Save Marriage for HeteroSexuals
 * 1) D.C.'s same-sex marriage bill continues on its path to passage. So, too, does the battle between the D.C. Council and the Catholic Church over whether and how the people of Washington would be able to comply with city law without violating church tenets.
 * 2) Many cousil members are talking to others about a way to make a fair deal with them so no crime will happen .The safety of the people of Washington madders alot, and nothing bad should happen . Other than a protest or argument.
 * 3) The language proposed would allow a religious group not to provide, among other things, "privileges, advantages, benefits, or goods for a purpose related to or dealing with same sex marriage.
 * 4) If Catholic Charities wants to exclude gay and lesbian couples from its adoption services, then it should do so without receiving taxpayer money.