Same-Sex Marriage in Canada

Every couple has the right to enjoy of being in love. If marriage is the only thing that could fully nourish the couple’s love, regardless of gender, let them savor the glory of their love. If two people of the same sex want to marry, it would be another story. There would be many arguments about this. For instance the sanctity of marriage becomes less valued. Throughout the history, more than just a commitment or a duty, marriage is a religious ceremony of the unity of a man and a woman to establish a family. The family, consisting of a father and a mother then is the building block of a community.

Same-sex marriage is a term for a governmentally, socially, or religiously recognized marriage in which two people of the same sex live together as a family. Marriages or relationships involving two people of the same sex had been condemned in the society. Until in 2001, the government of Netherlands first made an attempt to allow same-sex marriage. In later years, other countries such as Belgium, Spain, Canada and South Africa began to recognize it also.2 Same-sex marriage has become a phenomenon then. Upon granting the rules of same-sex marriage in Canada, same-sex couples have received the same benefits and obligations as the opposite-sex couples. However, no matter what the rule would say about its legalities, it has still remained as a controversial issue. There is always a complicated discussion about the same-sex marriage. Still, same-sex marriage has been successfully recognized legally in other countries.

Historical and anthropological evidence around the globe shows that same-sex couples have formed intimate long-term relationships. While the nature of marriage has changed over the millennia, one thing that has not changed is that same-sex couples rarely have the same acceptance as of the opposite-sex couples. In the early time, some same-sex couples have enjoyed social and even formal recognition of their relationships. However, most of them got so many criticisms about immorality issues. This is not supposed to happen because no matter what the gender whether a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual should have the right of a full human dignity including marriage. Basically, everyone, regardless of gender has the right to get married and entitled to enjoy it. Although churches known to have opposed this kind of marriage, records of same-sex relationships in the history indicate that the concept and practice of same-sex marriage has never been entirely suppressed.