Should Gay Marriage be Called Marriage?

by burchus85 in Law, September 10, 2009

Article talks about the gay marriage issue in the United States as well as other issues.

Every year more and more states are allowing gay marriages to be held. How do you feel about this? Is there anything wrong with gay marriages at all? Is the use of the word marriage being thrown around loosely?

I’ve grown up believing as well as most people in the world that gay marriages are wrong as well as being homosexual itself. I’ve been a firm believer that being gay was a choice, an act of lust for attention from those who are addicted to it. Now that I’ve been through college and had made friends with a couple people of whom where gay brought me to reality that for them it wasn’t a choice and that it was just who they were as people. I now have great respect for homosexuals.

On www.dictionary.com marriage is defined as the social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies, etc. I firmly feel that marriage is truly a ceremony between a man and a woman in which two souls come together under a holy bond of matrimony. Please correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t marriage brought up through religion? Also, wasn’t it only done with a man and a woman? If this is correct I feel that gay marriage should not have the right to be called marriage at all. I feel marriage was already taken up by wedding a man and a woman. I think it would be of everyone’s best interest if it was called something else. I think this way gay’s could have everything they were fighting for and as well leave the heterosexual population who’s against gay marriage happy!