In a recent ruling on the matter of same-sex
marriage and the benefits the family is entitled to was ruled in favor of the
plaintiff Tracey Cooper Harris a couple days ago.
The LGBT case was the first case to declare that benefits must be provided to a
married veteran no matter the sex of the veteran's spouse. (SPLC). The reason
this case seemed so interesting to me was not for the veteran aspect of it but
for more of the same-sex marriage aspects. Besides the obvious reasons to
marry: love, stability, commitment and just about any other relationship worthy
adjective that comes hand-in-hand with marriage; entering a marriage has serious
monetary benefits from joint income tax returns to medical
and employment benefits all the way to Social Security, Medicare and disability
benefits for spouses… and THAT is where I shall begin my discussion.
If a same-sex couple were contributing, and
paying citizens, just as much as a opposite-sex couple were, they should be
allowed the same rights. The United States should not be worried about trying
to take away benefits and rights from their veterans; rather, they should be
assisting them in any way possible.
Realizing that this may be a bit off topic, it
still falls within the First Amendment and those who are against same-sex
marriage generally are because of religious
reasons. Freedom of religion, to me, is the same as freedom of speech. You
are choosing to pray to whom you want and you are choosing to express your
beliefs in whichever house of worship you seem fitting. Understanding that this argument against
same-sex marriage, at its most basic of levels, is because people feel that God
created holy matrimony to be shared between a man and a woman. Due to the
persuasion of the church, government officials have thus manipulated the First
Amendment and made it so that it transgresses a religious system that should not
be used to govern over individuals who do not feel the church (Christian) had
the right to disallow their marriage.
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