Homosexuality

A detailed Summary of Homosexuality

It has been estimated that approximately one percent of the population in Canada is homosexual. Although this proportion may seem insignificant, it represents over 314 000 people. Canada is known worldwide as one of the freest countries, but there are still restrictions in the law that limit a person's liberty based on sexual preference. Although common-law relationships between same-sex couples are recognised in almost every province, the term marriage is one that the government will not apply to them. Does this not go against all Canadian morals and standards opposed to discrimination? Everyone ought to have the right to be legally married; sexuality should not be an issue.

Everyone has a right to be happy. Everyone has a right to live however he or she wants, as long as he or she does not infringe on the rights of another. This is shown in Section 2 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, as it states:

...all individuals should have an opportunity equal with other individuals to make for themselves the lives that they are able and wish to have, and to have their needs accommodated, consistent with their duties and obligations as members of society, without being hindered in or prevented from doing so by discriminatory practi

A person's sexual preference should not be an issue where marriage is concerned. A human being is a human being, whether straight or homosexual. If someone would be content married to a person of the same sex, who has the right to object? Everyone has the right to be happy; everyone has the right to be loved. As Tenzin Gyasto, the 14th Dalai Lama, said, "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." As was stated earlier, there are over 314 000 homosexuals in Canada who are currently under the scrutiny of the law, as far as marriage is concerned. Canada as a nation needs to celebrate the differences that this group of people can contribute to society, not condemn them.

During the classical period, especially for the duration of ancient Greece's rule, not only were homosexual relations tolerated, they were promoted. Most older men would take on a "pais," or a young man to whom the older man would be not only a lover, but a teacher. Cicero once wrote that these affairs seemed to have originated in the Greek gymnasia where they were, "free and tolerated." It was believed that the love between a man and a woman was no match for that between two men. Women, it was thought, did not have the intellectual capacity to obtain a pure love. Angelo di Bernardi, the president of the Augustinianum Patristics Institute in Rome, states:

This quote shows why some Christians believe that those who prefer the same sex are lesser beings. However, the Good News Bible also states, "Do not judge others, and God will not judge you; do not condemn others, and God will not condemn you; forgive others, and God will forgive you." By this quote, one can see th

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