Same-sex marriage should be legal. Homosexual marriage should be on the same playing field as heterosexual marriage. Once this feat is mastered then equality will not hold boundaries as it does at the moment. In an interview with Katie Wiley, 37-year-old heterosexual college student and mother, when asked what the benefit of same-sex marriage was, she answered, “The benefit of same-sex marriage is equality. Everyone should be treated the same whether or not they are homosexual or heterosexual.” Pondering her answer makes it clear that not everyone is equal.
The topic of same-sex marriage, or gay marriage, is extremely divisive in today's society. Many in favor of same-sex marriage suggest that gay couples should have the same marital benefits as heterosexual couples, which is simply a civil rights issue. The issue of same-sex marriage is an argument that all of us have heard, and most of us have strong opinions on. I know very few people that don’t have a preference of legalization or not. Personally, I believe that homosexuals should be granted the same rights as heterosexual couples.
Yet others would argue that even the media still supports nuclear families and is socializing the next generation into thinking that it is right for example ‘The Simpsons’, so despite the increase in divorce and feminism the nuclear family will remain popular in British society. The third argument as to why the nuclear family is no longer the norm is that many religions support the nuclear family and do not agree with other types such as lone-parent. However secularization is causing less and less religious people so
While the main reason people in the US seem to get married is out of love, it is by no means the only reason (Kellard). One of the arguments against gay marriage is the idea presented by Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis in the Old Testament. Therefore, much of the opposition to same-sex marriage is rooted in the Bible. But when did the Bible become the basis for the laws of a country that accepts every religion? The article 10 reasons why Homosexual “Marriage” is harmful and must be opposed states: “Marriage is not the creature of any State.
14 November 2012 Rebuttal to Brittney Baker’s “Same-Sex Marriage and Religion: An Inappropriate Relationship” The movement for the legalization of same-sex marriage has today become a prominent part of western culture. Twenty or thirty years ago the idea was virtually unknown (Lewis 33). This was due to the fact that American society was predominantly influenced by Christian values. Over the years non-Christian values have gradually replaced Christian values. In addition, there has been a growing emphasis placed on equal rights.
Personally I have gone through arguments with many people about the proposition and what I stood for as a person. I do believe that it is a right for gays to be with their other partner, but at the same time I believe that marriage should be considered between a husband and wife, and marriage is not only done under the state, but under God. If homosexuals want to marry in a church or any type of religious place, they shouldn’t because as a fellow believer of God, I don’t see how they can get married under God’s name, where in the Bible marriage is seen between a man and a woman and not a woman and a woman or a man and man. And if they choose not to follow God’s view on marriage, then why should they get married in the house of the Lord? It just does not seem right.
Nuclear families consist of both adult male and female with mutually conceived dependants and is always made up of two generations. Extended families, where more prevalent during the first half of the 20th Century include the nuclear family plus vertical lineage, where one or more older generations are included. Occasionally aunts, uncles and cousins are part of the extended family, this type is generally classed as horizontally extended. The reconstituted family, is one where either one or both of the household adults have had children through previous relationships and have brought them into a new family environment meaning there is a presence of step parents and children. This type is becoming more common due to the change in society where divorce is more common and accepted.
Defining Polygyny: Debates on Kinship and Marriage Abstract How does the practice of polygyny (a form of polygamy) question the idea of marriage and kinship in today’s highly monogamous world? Based on research of published literature and a comparison of polygyny in Utah and Indonesia, this paper concludes that polygamous marriages could possibly be the next frontier to a socially accepted form of marriage system in mainstream societies. Introduction Growing up in a monogamous society I assumed that there is only one way to have a family structure which is a heterosexual monogamous marriage as the core of kinship, leading to affinal and consanguineal kins. This is how most people I have known define marriage and kinship as well. Anthropological studies of kinship present alternative kinship structures thereby questioning mainstream notions of marriage and family.
Name: Todd M. Lynch Writing Style Used: Turabian Course and Section Number: THEO 202 D18 Essay on Anthropology: Marriage and Divorce Marriage and divorce are important topics in the Bible, topics that were spoken about by Jesus himself. Marriage is joining of two people into one flesh and is not a decision that is to be made lightly, it has lifelong ramifications. Divorce is the dissolution of marriage and has long been looked down upon even before the times of the Bible. The Bible has specific teachings on what constitutes a marriage, what the only grounds are for divorce, and whether or not a person, once divorced, is allowed to remarry. The Bible teaches that marriage is the joining together of a man and woman into one flesh.
1 Major trends affecting families in the new millennium – Western Europe and North America - Robert Cliquet∗ Introduction The 20th Century has witnessed remarkable changes in family structures and dynamics in Western Europe and North America: smaller household sizes, a further shift from extended to nuclear families, a decrease in nuptiality and an increase in separation or divorce, the appearance of new forms of unions such as unmarried cohabitation and living-apart-together, changing gender and intergenerational relations, and, last but not least, a substantial decrease in fertility, often to below-replacement levels. Beginning in the 1960s a number of interrelated and mutually reinforcing economic, technological and cultural factors combined to accelerate and extend those changes in existing family features. These changes, and their demographic and social consequences, have raised considerable concern, if not panic, among some researchers and policy makers. Doom mongering about the dying Occident and the disintegration or even the end of the family have been advanced or discussed (e.g. Cooper, 1986; Kaufmann, 1991).