Marriage: It's Time that We Stop Turning Up Our Noses and Live in an Open and Fair Society

Marriage is one of the most complicated issues in today's world. The divorce rate is sky rocketing and gay-marriage is at the forefront of most political debates. Everyone's thoughts differ on seemingly every issue there is about marriage: its sanctity, the sole mates, compromise and what is most important. Ideas like gay marriage to me should be legalized, and of course the offspring should be looked at as number one. But the single most important thing in being married to your partner is your feelings toward your other half.

Heterosexual or homosexual every American has the right to be married. The fear of homosexual marriage is brought on mostly by Christian conservatives because the Bible and God see it as a sin. That incorporates religion into the argument however, which is the basis for many world problems, and it is once again. We separated church and state in the past for a reason. "The United States is not a culturally homogeneous country," and it is a good thing we are not (Rauch 412).

I think, along with Stephanie Coontz, that high expectation for marriage is a good thing (404). You must believe your partner is your sole mate and have that feeling in your heart about it. Without that feeling, everyone involved suffers. "You must compromise on a daily basis," claims an article on the NonEnglish website (Brandenberg 1). Marriage is the most sacred of all institutions we have. Not allowing someone that right is unconstitutional and wrong, but I feel not being with that one person that makes everything truly special is even worse.

WORKS CITED

Brandenburg, Mark. "Successful Marriages." Non Stop English. 16 Feb. 2007

Coontz, Stephanie. "Great Expectations." Miller, Robert K. The Informed Argument. 7^th ed. Boston: Thomas Wadsworth, 2007.

Rauch, Jonathan. "A More Perfect Union." Miller, Robert K. The Informed Argument. 7^th ed. Boston: Thomas Wadsworth, 2007.