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“We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…”. This is the opening to one of, if not the most, important documents to the United States of America, The Declaration of independence. “All men are created equal.” In the past we have either overlook or ignored this line in the document. Black people, Irish people, Jews, women they have all been discriminated against and treated different then the average white man. They were not given the chance to “pursue happiness” because they had darker skin, an accent, an unpopular religion, less strength, they were different. And now in the twenty-first century we haven’t learned our lesson, that people are different. People look different, talk different, believe different, and LOVE different. Denying homosexuals the right to marry those they love signifies a harsh similarity to that unenlightened time of our past.
Marriage is a beautiful thing, it is a chance for two people to commit to one another for the rest of their lives. They get to prove to each other that they love them and care fore them and will always be by their side as a lover, a supporter, a comforting soul and a friend. In marriage the couple is given the rights to visit each other in the hospital, make medical decisions on behalf of each other in events if illness, choose final resting place, have joint custody of a child and more. That is if your man and wife. You see in most states in America marriage can only be done when a man loves a woman. Most heterosexuals can tolerate what homosexuals do in the privacy of their bedroom but to analogue that in society would be “harmful” to every individual. The only question I have is how? People say its harmful, they say it disrupts their daily lives, but I have never been given an answer on how? How does two men or two women who live on...