Myself, a young lesbian woman, would like to see myself being able to marry my partner. Society has become more tolerant of gays and lesbians in the last couple of years and we are all uniting to carry our voice to be able to marry the one we love regardless of race, religion, or sex.

Gays and lesbians have been denied the right to marry for too long. The United States does not allow same-sex marriages because it is not the traditional view of a family or life. Marriages should not only be for one man and one woman, but also extend the right to include same-sex couples.

The government does not care that these two people love each other, and want to make this commitment. The government is denying gays and lesbians the right to feel like they are a part of a society. Gays and lesbians will always feel like an outcast as long as they are treated like one. One could in no way ha

ve true self-confidence if one feels like they do not belong. Imagine the stress one must feel knowing that you could never marry the one you love.

Society can not keep ignoring homosexuality. Society believes that by denying homosexuals rights, such as marriage, that homosexuality will go away and seize to exist. Society needs to learn that this will not happen. Men and women who have these feelings towards people of their same-sex need to become aware of their feelings and decide if these feelings are true. If one realizes this is who they are then the need to recognize it and be happy. No one can live a happy life in denial, as traditionalists want gays and lesbians to do. Traditionalists want gays and lesbians to live in denial and doing things that they do not want to do and being unhappy for the rest of their life.

Studies show that someday soon gays and lesbians will be able to marry. Times are changing and so are the views of today's society. Gays and lesbians are not asking for special treatment, we are just asking to be treated equally. In the future we will all be able to love the one we choose without the fear of discrimination or of never actually being able to marry this person and achieve true commitment.

Sheila Kuehl tells us about a traditionalist view in her essay "Do not go gently into that Knight" about California State Senator Pete Knight. Knight fights same-sex marriages by saying, "Gays and lesbians are two immoral to be allowed to marry and raise children, so we will deny them the ability to marry and raise children within the law. Then we can point to the fact that they have no real families as a good reason for denial." (Kuehl 112)

The traditional view of a family is a father, mother, son or daughter not two men or two woman. Traditionalists say that marriage is for children, and homosexuals do not have children, therefore, we should not be able to marry. This goes back to the traditional family where two men cannot produce children as well as two women. Gay activists argue that marriage should be about love, if two women or two men love each other then they should be allowed to marry as well as a man and a woman who love each other (Same-sex: Debating the ethics, science, and culture of homosexuality 304-5).

Kuehl is right because denying someone the right to a family is denying them life and their happiness. A family is an essential part of growing up. As a child one always dreams what th

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