Do you think gay marriage should exist?
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Gay marriage or same-sex marriage is a term for a legally or socially recognized marriage between two people of the same sex.
Some proponents of same-sex marriage use the term "equal marriage" to stress that they seek equality as opposed to special rights. Opponents argue that equating same-sex and opposite-sex marriage changes the meaning of marriage and its traditions.
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Pro arguments
What con is actually concievable from having homsexual marriage?
There is really no reason to not have fair marriage right for everyone, regardless of sexual orientation. Fear is the only enemy, up-tight religious folk who truly believe that we are endangering THEIR right to happily ever after. How is allowing someone else to live with and love the one they choose ever effect you? And it's not like it's going to be taught in schools. They don't teach you about marriage anyway.
Besides, the fact that denying one group a particular right and not another isn't only unconstitutional it's darkly familiar to the Separate But Equal Jim Crowe laws of the 1950's and 60's. Have we all really forgotten this quickly? Only a few decades ago people were being denied their rights.
And on a less likely, but still possible, and darker note, the denying of African-American equality led to the formation of militant-groups like the Black Panthers. do we need more of that in America (yes...but that's just me).
I literally challenge anyone to come up with an argument that cannot be destroyed against fair right to every group.