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Legalizing Same-Sex Marriages
A battle has been in progress for many years over equal rights and equal protection against discrimination toward homosexuals. ... Same sex marriages harm no one and to deny them the right to marry is wrong, and unconstitutional. ... Now gay men and lesbians are challenging that institution, they believe homosexual relationships are the same as heterosexual ones. ... “The current controversy over gay marriage derives from years of efforts by gay, lesbian, and bisexual activists to achieve family rights on a piecemeal basis-through pressing for domestic partnership laws, for example, or through lawsuits to permit adoption by single persons”. (Faigley & Selzer, 2004)
In 1991 three gay couples filed a lawsuit, in Hawaii, for denying them marriage licenses. ... It made Hawaii the first state to recognize that gay and lesbian couples are entitled, by law, to the same privileges as heterosexual married couples. Under the full faith and credit clause of the constitution, this also forces all states to recognize those marriages as far as federal benefits are concerned.
Approximate Word count = 738
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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