In the past decades, same sex marriages have skyrocketed not just in the United States but around the world however; it seems to be influencing today's population including all races and gay couples. Marriage is supposed to be a heterosexual union between a man and a woman, or partners in a relationship, as well as a legal institution and a social tradition. Throughout U.S. history, Marriage has generally been understood, as a legal and social monogamous union between two people of opposite sexes. But through the research and the articles that we were given we can come to the conclusion that there is absolutely nothing wrong with same sex marriages. For Instance, the institution of gay marriage offers self- respect and validation …show more content…
As Martin Luther King Junior once said “I have a dream that one day we will be able to see each other as the same” Same sex marriage is definitely a civil rights issue, because gays are a group of minorities who seek to gain acceptance and benefits from the rest of the world and the people around them. Even though there are many flaws in America’s government and legal system, prejudice still exists between the minority groups, according to the supreme court there are many valid points in this criticism where the Democratic Republic of the United States fights for the equal protection of rights and laws of its citizens. Despite the Civil movement , protection laws were established for the gay couples but the prejudices continued against minority groups, due to this it is extremely important that we see the politics of civil rights in America with other eyes in the situation; the gay rights movement, and the issues of gay marriage, were it should be …show more content…
If the same sex marriages have very little effect on the divorce rate and the divorce rate is up to 60% in America then there is already a very clear problem with the institution of marriage. People are divorcing each other and breaking the real definition of marriage. A study by The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association supports the idea that gay marriage will not harm the institution of marriage. A statistics survey was conducted in Massachusetts because it became the first state to finally legalize gay marriage in 2004, when the survey came to an end the results of the survey revealed that Massachusetts had the lowest divorce rate in the year 2008 and that Its divorce rate in 2008 decreased 21 percent since the year 2003.According to the articles given and prior knowledge we can conclude that gay marriage will eventually build the institution of marriage even stronger than