I
believe President Obama’s stance on the legalization of same-sex marriage is in
opposition with his belief that all people deserve equal rights and
opportunities under the law. The end goal of marriage is to establish a family,
which can be confined to two people with or without children, and acts as a
relationship which fulfills each partner’s emotional and physical needs, which
necessarily includes sex. Therefore, same-sex marriage is not a gateway to the
inclusion of any human relationship being regarded as a potential marriage
relationship, as Robert Sokolowski suggests. If two people love each other,
provide for each other’s needs and want to get married, then marriage is an
essential right which cannot be denied them if
they are truly receiving equal rights and opportunities under the law.
The reason
same-sex marriage is illegal is because over half the country is evangelical
Christian who oppose same-sex marriage on a religious basis. Obviously this is
a major issue which will effect voting decisions in the next election. But
there is also merit to the fact that a politician’s job is to represent the
beliefs of the people he represents. Even if his decision is morally wrong, is
there justification for him to represent the will of the people he represents?
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