Should Same-Gender Couples Be Legally Allowed to Get Married?

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Should Same-Gender Couples Be Legally Allowed To Get Married? Marriage is a social institution that provides both legal benefits, such as tax breaks, next-of-kin rights, and insurance benefits, as well as social ones, by publically showing your commitment to another person. To many people it is a privilege that they take for granted. Unfortunately, with the exception of a few countries and states in the United States, the only unions legally allowed to take place are those between one man and one woman, which means that a large percentage of people are unable to get married, including, but not limited to, same-gender couples. Same-gender marriage has become a hotly contested topic in the past few years, and while many people are beginning to see it as what it really is, an issue of equality and justice, there are still many people who are set against it for various reasons, although mostly religious ones. Same-gender couples should legally be allowed to get married because peoples’ religious biases have no place in the federal government, it will give them access to the many legal protections and privileges that heterosexual married couples get, and while any group of people is being denied their rights, society is being damaged. The United States is a federal state that was, more or less, literally founded on the basis of religious freedom and the separation of church and state, and denying people the right to marry because some people are using religion as an excuse for their ignorance is unconstitutional and wrong. Not only are conservative members of Congress using their power to stop bills that would allow same-gender couples to marry from being passed, but many religion-based groups (almost always Christian ones) will rally together and contribute money and time to do the same. One must realize that our country is a diverse place full of people who hold

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