Same-Sex Marriage Equality

Ilene 1 March 2013

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Imagine this…

Do you agree? Or disagree?

Where is it allowed?

• United States of America

- Connecticut, Washington DC, Iowa, Massachusetts,

Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont,

Washington, and Coquille, Suquamish

• Internationally

-Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Iceland,

Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden,

parts of Brazil, and parts of Mexico

Reasons against same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage should not be legalized

• Religious reasons

• Confuses gender rolls

• Leads to other types

of marriage

• Lower life expectancy

• Psychological

disorders

• Can’t have children

If you are against gay marriage, rank your reasons why you

are against it: one being the most important and four being

the least.

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1 1

0

1

0

1

2

3

4

1 2 3 4

Religious reasons

Gay couples can not have children

Its gross

It will confuse children of gender rolls in family and in marriage

Same-sex marriage should be legalized

Better for children Doesn’t hurt anybody

Better for children

• Two-parent families

offer more support

• More child adoptions

• Become open-minded

- Learn to accept

everyone

Society isn’t affected negatively

• Encourages people

- Strong family values

- Give up high-risk

sexual lifestyles

• Lower STD rates

• The only thing that

should matter in

marriage is love

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10%

80%

10%

If same-sex marriage were to be leaglized, would it affect

society in a negative way?

Yes No It doesn't matter

What do you think now?

Works Cited

• Denniston, Lyle. "The Most Compelling Arguments Against Legalizing Gay Marriage." 29 November 2012. Business Insider. 30 January 2013 <http://www.businessinsider.com/the-legal-case-against-gay-marriage-2012-11>.

• Messerli, Joe. "Should Same-Sex Marriages be Legalized?" 19 November 2011. Balanced Politics. 30 January 2013 <http://www.balancedpolitics.org/same_sex_marriages.htm>.

• "Single Parent Families Effects on Children." n.d. <<a href="http://family.jrank.org/pages/1577/Single-Parent-Families-Effects-on-Children.html">Single-Parent Families - The Effects On Children</a>>.

• Stinespring, Emily. "PRO: Denying gay marriage is discrimination." 4 February 2011. The Charleston Gazette. 6 February 2013 <http://wvgazette.com/Entertainment/FlipSide/201102041194>.

• Wakefield, Jason. "31 arguments against gay marriage (and why they’re all wrong)." 2012. New Humanist. 30 January 2013 <http://newhumanist.org.uk/2905/31-arguments-against-gay-marriage-and-why-theyre-all-wrong>.

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