"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." -Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
Ever since the beginning of time, there has been one topic that has been widely and wildly debated; should the gays be able to marry? The right-wing, for good reason, has answered no to this question. After all, I heard that the day after the current thirty-one states that allow same-sex marriage (nslc.org, Same-Sex Marriage Laws) passed the law, they went up in rainbow flames and homosexuals tried to convert their people. Reason against marriage equality ranges from religious based to biology based, so shall we get down
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Two vaginas bumping together will not create a baby, but neither will a hostile uterus. There are tons of people who have the misfortune of not being able to have kids, old people and infertile couples, or people who just do not want kids. Does that mean these people cannot get married? Oh, of course not, that would be discrimination. Right? There are too many cases these days of women who have kids and are not ready for them and as a result adoption agencies fill up. I see a solution to the gays-cannot-procreate-problem, do you? All we have to do is hand out the adoptable kids to a nice gay couple, like an Oprah special; "You get a kid, and you get a kid! Everybody gets a …show more content…
In Christianity, the religion which causes the most ruckus over it, homosexuality is just as sinful as, say, working on Sundays. "For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death." (Exodus 35:2) Whoa, whoa. Slow down. That should not count; it was from the Old Testament. They were crazy and gave harsh punishment. Yes, they did; that is precisely the point. The only two arguments against gays take place in Leviticus; which is also in the Old Testament. "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a women, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." (Leviticus 20:13) In the New Testament, nothing is said about gays while in the Ten Commandments, it is still said the seventh day should be a holy