Human Rights at Home and Abroad: Past, Present, and Future
Human Rights at Home and Abroad: Past, Present, and Future
Human Rights at Home and Abroad: Past, Present, and Future
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partnerships are not marriage, civil partnerships help calm the controversy of gay rights <strong>and</strong> help to make<br />
homosexuals more equal to heterosexuals. However, conflicting ideas of wh<strong>at</strong> gays <strong>and</strong> lesbians should<br />
be able to do are still in exist.<br />
The conflicting opinions of people are the reason why controversy on this topic seems to cause<br />
the most problems with this topic. Many citizens in both United St<strong>at</strong>es <strong>and</strong> the United Kingdom hope th<strong>at</strong><br />
sometime in the near future their governments will allow same-sex marriages to happen. If civil unions<br />
<strong>and</strong> civil partnerships are already permitted to same-sex couples with most of the same opportunities <strong>and</strong><br />
benefits, wh<strong>at</strong> does it m<strong>at</strong>ter if gays <strong>and</strong> lesbians were legally allowed to marry? This is only making<br />
another distinction between heterosexuals <strong>and</strong> homosexuals saying th<strong>at</strong> heterosexuals are the primary<br />
group granted all human rights while homosexuals are a secondary group who are only granted certain<br />
rights. Same-sex couples in the United St<strong>at</strong>es are hoping for their civil unions to be recognized n<strong>at</strong>ionally<br />
if gay marriage is nowhere in sight. Both st<strong>at</strong>e <strong>and</strong> federal governments should be more open to these<br />
couples are realize they are just like everyone else <strong>and</strong> who they love shouldn‘t make them bad <strong>and</strong><br />
unwilling to be tre<strong>at</strong>ed like every other citizen. To those who do not believe gay men <strong>and</strong> lesbian women<br />
should not be granted rights believe same-sex rel<strong>at</strong>ionships are wrong <strong>and</strong> therefore do not deserve to be<br />
tre<strong>at</strong>ed like everyone else.<br />
To some, gays <strong>and</strong> lesbians are thought to be going against the n<strong>at</strong>ural order of life. These<br />
couples are not able to have children n<strong>at</strong>urally together <strong>and</strong> therefore are going against n<strong>at</strong>ure. This is<br />
thought of as wrong to some people <strong>and</strong> because of this homosexuals should are going against wh<strong>at</strong><br />
n<strong>at</strong>ure is telling them to do. These people also believe th<strong>at</strong> since two people of the same sex cannot<br />
n<strong>at</strong>urally have children then why should they be able to get married when to them th<strong>at</strong> is wh<strong>at</strong> marriage is<br />
for. Marriage is to produce children <strong>and</strong> without same-sex couples being able o do this same-sex marriage<br />
has no purpose. With these opinions on gays <strong>and</strong> lesbians so well known it is not farfetched to be believe<br />
th<strong>at</strong> these opinions are responsible for the controversy <strong>and</strong> denial of rights/discrimin<strong>at</strong>ion. However with<br />
a recent change in opinions it has affected the recognition of gay rights. With this recent recognition of<br />
the homosexual lifestyle many support groups have began to develop <strong>and</strong> more equaliz<strong>at</strong>ion of rights<br />
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