Issue of Same-Sex Marriage Same-sex marriage has never been allow

The issue to be discussed is whether or not homosexuals should be allowed to marry one another. There are a number of rationales that have been offered by those in the gay community as to why they should be allowed to marry, and generally the impetus has come not from a desire to be married as such but as a result of various social and economic benefits denied to gay people because they cannot marry. For some in the gay community, demands for gay marriage may in fact be a form of challenge to the "straight" community, but those who are truly serious about the issue are attempting to secure for homosexual partners such rights taken for granted by heterosexual married couples as the right to inheritance, to insurance benefits, for one partner to visit the other in a hospital, and so on. Society has so far deemed marriage to mean more than this and to have at least the possibility of procreating children, and this idea, sometimes

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ever, have increased more than 400 percent since 1970, with more Americans living together outside marriage. Almost 3 million of the nation's 93 million households today consist of unmarried couples. The number of "traditional" families has at the same time declined steadily. Domestic partnership may be defined in different ways, but it is presently confined almost exclusively to cohabitants who have a stable, intimate relationship and are financially interdependent. In 1992, the city council of Washington, D.C. passed an ordinance stating that almost anyone living together, including siblings or platonic friends, would be defined as a domestic partnership. The measure did not go into effect because Congress did not approve it. Domestic partnership has often been seen as a gay issue, though this is not necessarily the case, and indeed the vast majority of people using domestic partnership laws are heterosexual. The benefits accruing in domestic partnerships also vary widely. In some cities, while couples can register, they get little out of it but a title, for instance (Ames 62-63). Som in the gay community itself offer arguments against same-sex marriage. Paula L. Ettelbrick offers a different view from within the gay
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