by Jeanine Kelly

Created on: June 16, 2008   Last Updated: January 19, 2009

I am a firm believer in doing what makes you happy. That includes being with the one you love. Who are we to tell someone who they can and can't spend their lives with? In case you forgot, discrimination is illegal. So why are we allowing the government to dictate our love lives? I agree that marriage is a sacred union. I agree that anyone who gets married needs to do it for the right reason. Love. Who are we to make the judgement that same sex marriages aren't as special and sacred as opposite sex marriages? In America today, we have given women the right to choose wether or not they want to deliver an unexpected child. How can we allow a choice like that to be left open, yet we cannot accept a different form of love? In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with same sex marriages. If you're going to be married, it should be to the one you love. And shouldn't everyone in our country have the right to choose that for themselves? Isn't that what "freedom" is all about? If it's wrong, then that is between them and God. For us to try and push them out only says that our government is no longer interested in the happiness of our citizens. But not just our government. It also says that we as Americans don't want one another to be happy. So many marriages today are failing, but at least we are given the chance to try. EVERYONE should be given that chance. What we are saying to these people is that it's okay for a man and woman to get married, have 5 kids, go through a messy divorce, tear their family apart and live unhappily ever after; but it's not okay for a man and a man to get married, maybe adopt a kid or 2 and raise a well-functioning and happy family. Why shouldn't they be given the opportunity to make work what the rest of us keep screwing up? Our divorce rate is at 50%. Maybe the key to fixing that is letting "the other guys" show us how to do it the right way. A couple in love is a couple in love. That's just the way it is. Better that a man and a man get married and spend the rset of their lives together in marital bliss than letting a man and woman do it just for the tax break and spend their lives miserable and cheating on each other. Doesn't everyone deserve a shot at their fairy tale ending? Laws are meant to keep structure and provide protection. Who really gets hurt if two women get married? Will society crumble if Katy marries Hannah? I don't think so. I say let them experience it themselves. Let them have that choice. We shouldn't make that for them. It's not our place.

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