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This 12 page paper provides an overview of the issue of gay marriage and the opposition to gay marriage. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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and challenge the legal constructs supporting marriage as an institution. Regardless of religious beliefs or moral perspectives, same sex marriages require the legal changing of definitions that should not
be change and the altering of numerous laws that complicate views of marriage as a whole. Rather than challenging the institution of marriage by applying marital value to same
sex unions, it is more credible to simply create a separate category of gay/lesbian unions that have similar rights as those united under a marriage contract.
Narration The concept of homosexuality is not a new social phenomenon and gay and lesbian unions have been noted throughout history and within the context of literary and social perspectives
for centuries. No one is refuting the fact that gay and lesbian unions exist, that some of them last longer than male/female marriages, or that families can value gay/lesbian
unions on the same level as male/female marriages. The challenge against gay/lesbian marriage extends from definitions of marriage, from the legal constructs supporting marriage, and from a societal view
of marriage that is significantly altered by the introduction of gay/lesbian marriages. The background for opposition to gay and lesbian marriages is linked to moral, religious and political views
about the legalities involved in gay marriage and the sanctioning of gay and lesbian unions. Predictably, most religious, political, and world views regarding the legality and sanctioning of gay
marriage have been largely critical - condemning the notion as being everything from sacrilegious to a symptom of mental illness. However, in a religious study of evangelical Christians, while
there may be strong opposition to gay marriage, support for a constitutional amendment banning it is only "lukewarm" at best (Christian Century, 2004). A study of more than 1,600
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