I need 3 reasons why gay marriage should be legalized?

it is every persons right the marry there love

equal rights

it is a joining of to people that love and care for each other there soul bodies and procession 'love has no boundaries race age gender or disability '

to have a legal reason to care for another

(bad wording)

but if i were dieing my mum has more right then my boyfriend to say my future

and happiness and community spirit

a party with the couple showing there love to each other tothere friends and families

I will tell you that, believe it or not, marriage has NOTHING to do with God. While you are bonded in holy matrimony, that is only a thing put in place to keep people married back in the day Marriage was developed by the Romans as a way for a man to own his children and the mother of those children. Reasons to allow gay marriage are, 1) Its a right not under God, but under the belief that ownership is given where it is due. 2) Why not? that is a better question. i mean who are they hurting by doing so? 3) Two married men or two married women would be just as productive economically as a married straight couple. 4) It would make America look even more libertarianistic in the global spectrum.

If some people think marriage should have anything to do with nature and reproduction between man and women, I think its untrue.

Nature is nature, marriage is man made. So that initially, man can have papers to show that they posses the woman and eveything they owned. Now its not only for legal sex (regarding religion) for security, self defense and economy.

I'm from a country where there's no such thing as gay marriage and not for the next hundred years. But I'm happy, coz I don't have to twist and toil, upgrading my committed relationship into marriage, which actually is a heterosexual comformity.

Why don't the gay community create something like a marriage but of a different name, so that all gay people have the same rights but differs from the heterosexuals. Why change yourselves to suit the world when you can change the world to suit you.

A few of the many reasons that the State is in the Marriage business in the first place, put in terms that even Conservatives will understand:

1. Family stability, legal, and financial protection. Married parents are more likely to stay together, and marriage provides safeguards for children in case a union is dissolved. Legal wills and custody preferences can be contested, and in many states second parent adoption by a non-relative is expressly forbidden. A surviving spouse with a child is entitled to Social Security surviving spouse benefits until the child is 18; a surviving unmarried partner receives nothing, despite them paying in just as much to the system.

2. Public and corporate interests. Currently, those select businesses and government entities that provide domestic partner benefits have to pay payroll taxes on the value of those benefits, unlike benefits to married employees. We should be encouraging, not penalizing, those private employers that extend health insurance to those currently uninsured.

3. Smaller government, less bureaucracy. The overlapping patchwork of legal, financial, and social legislation covering domestic partnerships, civil unions, etc., costs businesses and government billions every year that could be put to better uses.

Most importantly, basic fairness and equality. The State has no business either rewarding or punishing families for their adherence to a religious opinion. Either marriage should be available to everyone, or it should be available to no one.

I tottaly agree with what I colour above me said! Legal marriage is under the LAW, you know.... LEGAL AND ILLIGAL, those are rules made by the GOVERNMENT, not by GOD, so Gay people are HUMAN BEINGS and should be given the same rights as any other human being on this planet. If a religion doesnt accept gay marriages then gay couples shoudnt marry in church, but they could still do it at a courthouse and LEGALLY get married, you know...sign papers and get the same benefits as any other married couple who has decided to share their life together.

Plus u guys, marriage doesnt really mean anything when you think about it, its what you feel in your heart that REALLY counts, if you have found the right person for you and want to spend your life together then under your own law you two are married and you should try and keep your commitment to one another as much as you can and do all the things you want in life together, dont worry too much about marriage! It just isnt fair coz like "I colour" said, you wont get the same benefits from the government as straight couples would, and gay people do pay taxes!

But otherwise, what else do you really have to loose?

1. Long term gay and lesbian couples who have been together but are not married are not entitled to social security benefits or tax breaks that their heterosexual counterparts are awarded.

2. long term gay and lesbian couples that are not married may not be able to claim power of attorney over their significant other in cases of making medical decisions for that person (like pulling the plug) it would be left to their next of kin (who wouldn't be their lover, but a family member who may not have had anything to do with them)

3. There is something called the separation of church and state. By todays standards, too many people believe marriage to be a religious institution and they claim that by allowing gays and lesbians to marry it would "ruin the sanctity of marriage". Ok...that's fine, but how do you explain a 50-60% divorce rate among heterosexual marriages? I mean as far as ruining the sanctitity of marriage, I think the heterosexuals have done a fine job of that already. We couldn't make it any worse.

Marriage is a LEGALLY binding agreement, NOT a RELIGIOUS one. So, if a church doesn't want to perform gay marriages that's fine, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be allowed to marry at a courthouse or something. The decision should be left to the LEGISLATURE, NOT the religious sects that are out there. They seem to think it should be based on the Christian fundamentals of religion. They don't seem to understand or have compassion for those people that don't follow or practice Christianity.

Ok gay's.... yes you have freedom, it's your choice, don't say 'only God can judge me' because you probably don't believe in God. etc... and apparently the new thing now is to be different than other people, stand out, blah blah blah. yes that's good to be yourself, to a point.

Some people might say, gay couples can adopt kids that are unwanted etc, i mean there's pro's and cons to every situation, like some people say hunting deer is good, because there's too many, yet vegans or hippies will say it's horrible cause they have a right to live. Well.... Some homosexuals or bi people are only that way because they give up on the opposite gender because either "all guys are jerks" or "all girls are sluts"... Seriously? That just show's you're weak..

If the first couple on earth was 2 males or 2 females. we all wouldn't be alive.. I'm a christian, but if i see a gay couple on the street, i do feel dissapointed but i don't have a right to get into their business unless they ask for advice.

I am striaght as well, but I am for gay marriage becasue I believe every one is equal. If two straight ppl are allowed to fall in love and get married, then two gay people should be able to do the same.

I dont realy understand what the big deal is with society today. It is so messed up. People really need to learn to love each other for what they are and not what we think they should be.

WOW

your question got some great answers. The 'why not" answers are all of a type, no need to respond -- but the positive answers would make a great topic for a school paper.

You have the three main reason groups: legal, social, emotional, and a fine set of articulate answers -- don't let this go to waste.

1. Gay couples are currently denied rights under our law. If our government is going to be handing out extra benefits to straight people based on the fact they are straight, it's unfair to deny gay people those benefits based on the fact they are gay.

2. Children deserve two parents. When a gay person decides to adopt or reproduce with another gay person, the child legally only has one parent. If the legal parent dies, what happens to the child? A lot of painful legalities, that's for sure. And if one parent decides after several years to leave, the child will never get to see their other parent because the law doesn't require it. That is a lot of pain for the child.

3. Getting married in our society is the ultimate declaration of love. It means you care for someone so much, you can't stand to not be joined together. Gay people deserve to make that commitment. It's human nature.

1) When to people love each other they would like to have evidence that they are attached to the person they love.

2) Married couples have a better chance at adopting.

3) legal issues. Some times when gay partners never get recognized. Like when a person partner is hurt and only family members are allowed to see them partners are ignored and have to wait. Also if a persons partner dies and there is no will, whatever the issue is the family gets its.