Same Sex Marriages

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that gay marriages promote physically harmful activity, and the chance for children to be raised in an unstable household. A common fear is the potential disillusion of the marriage contract between a man and a woman. They believe this contract encompasses terms including the ability and expectation of procreation. Though these points are valid, they are somewhat irrelevant due to the separation of church and state. The argument is not the religious sanctioning of same sex marriage; it is the need for government recognition of it.
Throughout history, society and government have constantly been infringing on the people’s right to marry. Class structure, age differentials, religious affiliation, and racial background have each, at one point, prevented two lovers from uniting in matrimony. In many cultures the individuals have little or no say in whom they marry. As the land of the free, it would be expected that a choice of a spouse would be one of those freedoms. Some people ...

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