The Right to Marry

Some say President Obama made it possible. Others say it was a matter of time. Members of the LGBT community say gay marriage should have made a stand a long time ago.
Post election this November, several states finally made a statement and legalized gay marriage. All over the country, there are people celebrating the fact that rights for the citizens of the United States are now beginning to be made equal for all U.S. citizens.
Many people are not celebrating, though.
One main argument for the illegalization of gay marriage is that it destroys traditional marriages. Another argument is that it is goes against the beliefs of certain religions. Yet another argument is that it is just plain “wrong” and unnatural.
Many advocates want to know: How does one couple’s marriage destroy the tradition of other marriages? Are gay couples insisting that traditional marriages be illegal?
Advocates for equal marriage rights also want to know how religion can be an argument. Most gay couples are not asking to get married in a Catholic church or a Jewish synagogue.
And finally, how can one say that something is just plain “wrong” without specific reasons?
Have these opponents to same sex marriage thought, “Hey, maybe my strictly conservative marriage is offensive to gay couples.” Or maybe that traditional marriages are against another religion. Maybe heterosexual couples seem “wrong” to a same sex couple.
There is no reason to say that the love between one couple destroys the love between another couple. When heterosexual couples get married with very promiscuous themes in Vegas, is that not against the idea of traditional marriages?
When atheists get married, is that not against religions?
It is legal for a fifty-year-old man to propose to an eighteen-year-old girl. Is that not seen as “wrong” to most people?
Yet the target remains to be gay couples.
Why?
The bottom line is, if you do not like gay marriage, then do not get married to your same sex. Do not go to a same sex marriage.
Problem solved.
The happiness of one couple should not affect the happiness of another couple. People are made to do what makes them happy.
Generally speaking, getting married to the one you love makes you happy.
Do not take away someone’s happiness just because you cannot come to terms with the reasons he or she is happy. Worry about yourself.