Analysis on Current Events

These four articles that I wrote about were about gay marriage and whether it should be legalized or not. There has been a lot of controversy about this topic and this is what the article tries to convey. The topic of gay marriage is being debated all over the country. The voting is always a very close call from 38 to 28 or 24 to 20 to legalize gay marriage in there state. Most of the states that have legalized gay marriage have taken back that law at some point and have it be illegal again. The big discussion on whether to legalize the marriage between homosexuals is that it will affect children who will be raised by two homosexual parents. Another topic that people worry about with legalizing same-sex marriage is that we have to then give rights to polygamy (marring more than one person). The problem that people think will affect the children is that if they see that their parents are homosexuals then will that trigger them into being one too? And the government doesn’t want to legalize polygamy or many other things like that. The people who are against legalizing gay marriage are afraid that monogamy (being married to one person) won’t be the normal thing any longer, that everyone will be gay and be married to more than one person at a time (polygamy). Many people who are for legalizing gay marriage have a positive outlook on the debate. They think about how, “who remembers the outcome of the scopes trial? Evolution lost the battle, though it has largely carried the day," they believe that even though the world may not be ready for gay marriage now it won’t disappear and that it will be brought up again when more people are ready to except it. People are scared of accepting new ideas and change. They are afraid that if we legalize something as big as gay marriage that our society will change, and in their minds, not in the good way.