"Today some radical-right church leaders wish to bend APA policy [which denies that homosexuality is not a disorder] to their belief that homosexuality is a crime, no different than murder and theft-as per some passages of the Old and New Testament. In their view, gay people SHOULD choose therapy, because they OUGHT to stop being gay. In their view, all therapy should reflect penal law, and all penal law should reflect the Bible."

The fact is marriage has a spiritual significance, a familial significance, and it is a social statement describing and defining one's place and relationship in society. Marriage also has it's benefits by law that everyone should have when they are married, and no one should be denied this right. However, they are and the other side is fighting vigorously to win, but lets face it they are loosing the struggle. I am going to talk about three issues that effect same-sex marriage first it is their choice of sexual orient

I am not defending why someone decides or is a homosexual. I am just attempting to defend their right to marry. Marriage became controversial when it involved inter-racial couples, and this is slowly being accepted. Marriage is something special and shouldn’t be denied to any human. I feel that what someone does is their business, I am growing more open towards homosexual people, and coming from a heterosexual orientation I was confused about them. Either born with it or not, frankly I do not care. It becomes simply a fact of life that many need to get over with. Like I said I was once leaning towards homophobia because of societies norms, stereotypes, and so on. Like a saying I heard “You fear what you do not know.” And this holds true, if you do not agree with something hear the other arguments side first before you cast your judgement. Also accept that many people have different views and stick to them, just as the one’s that oppose homosexual marriage so much. We spend too much of our time telling others what acceptable or not. And people fail to realize that we are all different. I’ll end this essay on one last quote by Patricia Warren.

"All told, the Polygamy Incest, and Bestiality challenge is no longer on rhetorical flourish than on philosophical cogency. There is no logical connection between any of the four phenomena. Why, then, do traditionalists continue to put forth this red herring? Perhaps it's because they've ran out of genuinely plausible arguments against homosexuality and so they're grasping at straws."

If the U.S. is to remain a nation, where church and state are separated, then we must acknowledge our citizens' right of choice in how each of them perceive sexual orientation. Offering people, this choice of sexual orientation does not mean (as some church people insist) that we would be opening the door to legalizing bestiality, rape, exploitation of minors, etc. Homosexuals are not asking to engage in polygamy, incest, or bestiality. They are simply asking to engage in monogamous non-incestuous relationships with people they love. Just as heterosexual's do, there is no difference accept in sexual orientation. John Gorvino a respected journalist wrote in his essay Society Should Accept Homosexuality.

“Authoritarians face some challenges in their aim to impose the Bible on the choices of all other Americans. Some of us regard the Bible not as the revealed “Word of God”, but as a collection of sacred and historical writings created by various human writers. It is a document that we ought to respect, but is not a document that I or some other Americans would choose to live by the letter of, or want to go to prison because o

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