Expansion of Same-Sex Marriage in the US
This articles talk about how the push for gay marriage is being pushed in the United States. According to this article nine states including Washington, DC where same- sex marriage is or will be legal soon. This articles states that it is the younger generation that is making the main push for the same-sex marriage to be legalized. This can be related to the melting pot concept and asking whether gays or lesbians are able to “Fit in” the American culture. Its asking the question whether gays and lesbian marriage should be legally allowed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/us/advocates-of-gay-marriage-extend-their-campaign.html?ref=us
But what about the cultural citizenship of those whose religious views conflict with this? In a country founded only the principles of religious freedom and freedom from persecution, why should other parties gain rights at the loss of others' religious integrity?
ReplyDeleteI believe there are other paths that could have been (and still can be) taken to provide the wanted legal, financial, and cultural standings that homosexual couples desired in marriage to 'melt' into modernized nuclear family while also not spiting religious groups in the process.
Namely, secular 'civil unions' could have been (and should be, imo) made to be the same as marriage in all non-religious categories. Tax benefits and religious freedoms for all!
As another side point, if homosexual couples seek more than just the identical legal/financial standing of married couples, and at their core want to take 'marriage', a term used in religious AND secular works for centuries to describe a union between a man and a woman, then the conversation changes significantly.
Who then are the frontier savages, whose ways are old and unimportant despite generations of development, and who are the impeding 'new world' forces seeking to invade and redefine? Who are the 'uncultured' indians and filipinos, and who are the 'bringers of light and civilization'?
Taking rights from others is no way to achieve freedom for yourself.
-David
(Atheist of the Independent Party)