Legalization Of Gay Marriage Argumentative Analysis

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Before we begin our proposition to support the legalization of the right for conservative bakers to refuse to sell wedding cakes to homosexual couples, it would be appropriate to set a context as to where this argument is coming from and being applied in terms of environment and social structure. As such, our argument lies in the realm of a country or a collective environment where the legalization of homosexual marriage is implemented, where the union, as well as marriage between two people of the same sex, is a civil constitutional part of the social structure of the time and place. Hence, they are a group of people recognized as equals among others regardless of their race, language or religion; and like any other, they have equal human …show more content…

Such laws implemented in many countries are to preserve the well-being and freedom for each individual to ensure that peace and justice be maintained so no one should have unfair treatment or face discrimination to their own beliefs. The governing of an individual’s human right was created to instill equality for every individual as best as possible, bearing in mind the importance of a unified and peaceful community. With that being said, every individual should be entitled to equal human rights that allows he or she to practice their own set of beliefs and have that freedom of thought and expression. This comes from the United Nations Universal Declaration Articles 18 whereby stating the Freedom of Thoughts & Article 19 stating the Freedom of Expression. In essence, these articles stand to affirm an individual 's freedom to have their sets of beliefs and also to make choices based on what they say and …show more content…

However, we must be clear in how we actually see to what extent this as an act of discrimination, or if it actually is at all. The extent to which the effects of discrimination occurs is when an extreme act taken to extreme measures is being imposed on a group of individuals whose rights are being constrained or even threatened by the society. This is definitely not the case here, as the legal obligation is not placed on every baker in the country, conservative or not, to inhibit their services to homosexual couples. In fact the legal obligation placed here is to safeguard the differing views whereby everyone can still practise their human rights without imposing their own beliefs on