You can see the theme of weddings these days without hardly mentions the issue of gay marriage.
Only five of the 50 U.S. states will issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. These states are Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and New Hampshire. The District of Columbia also issues licenses to same-sex couples. Rhode Iceland, New York and Maryland will gay marriages from other states to recognize.
Were still many problems associated with marriage at the federal level there. Taxes and immigration laws have a major impact on gay couples. Although they can legally be married at the level of the state, gay couples have no marital rights at the federal level.
Many have compared this fight for equality in the civil rights movement of the 1960s in context. In my opinion, this comparison is wrong. There are no religious arguments against race-based civil rights. In contrast, homosexual behavior is condemned in many religions and as a result, discrimination against gay unions to eliminate a lot harder. The civil rights movement was “God” on the page and not the gay movement.
All that said, I thought it would be interesting to see how gay marriages, apart from the obvious, unlike heterosexual marriages.
Unexpectedly, I found that a preponderance of similarities between gay marriage ceremonies and traditional heterosexual marriages. For this reason I will focus on the differences.
1st The majority of same-sex marriages are civil ceremonies. I suspect this is because of the taboos committed against homosexuality that many religious doctrines.
2nd “Bride and groom” or “husband and wife” are rarely used in the wedding ceremony. The cover is spouse or partner.
3rd Also, many gay couples prefer the word partnership or association, but to use as a “marriage” to describe the ceremony.
4th In the majority of gay marriages, you will see both men in tuxedos and women in every dress.
To have it! The differences are just some of the agreements, many of them. What’s the fuss? Prejudice and religious dogma, two foes of gay marriage movement.
Virtually every major religion or against gay marriage or gay or both! The four dominant world religions, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam are against gay marriage. Statistically it is found that 10% of the world is gay, and that’s regardless of race, color or religion. A world population of 7 billion translates to 700 million homosexuals, of which 30 million U.S. citizens. In order to mention the Judeo-Christian culture of the United States, not to its Puritan origins, it is highly unlikely that one on the gay marriage decades ago, progress, especially at the federal level.
There are many compelling arguments on both sides of this issue. I have an opinion on both. It would be good for us as a society, whatever the matter be investigated from a religious perspective. We are finally living in a country on the principle of separation of church and state.