Gay marriage

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Introduction:
In modern times, the initial laws that have enabled gay marriage also known as same sex marriage were passed during the first decade of the 21st Century. By August 2013, around fifteen countries, United States included passed a law allowing gay marriages. Opinion polls conducted in different countries have indicated a rise in support for legalizing this kind of marriage across age, ethnicity, religion and the socioeconomic status. Same sex marriage has a number of serious implications in the society and has greatly been opposed by majority of people and organizations including different religious groups. The practice is considered as an ethical issue since it goes against many people’s norms and beliefs (Eskridge, 2008).
Marriage is well thought-out as a communal institution that has advanced with time and has attested to be long lasting regardless of the marriage type. There has however been an ethical dilemma concerning homosexuality around the world. This dilemma has existed especially among the Christian groups. Gay marriage is the union of two members of the same gender and sex. It has been in subsistence since prehistoric times. A historic same sex marriage was reported in the year 1061 between two Spanish men, Muno Vandilaz, Pedro Diaz. A priest at a small chapel in Spain joined the two men, and later the documents proving their marriage existence were found at a Monastery. This type of marriage has been viewed as a mental disorder and as a device for being called Satan. The ethical dilemma arises when gay marriage is viewed as an atrocity and a transgression while some people feel that gay people should not be categorized and judged for they are born gay.
Christian leaders have argued that the law should not allow same sex marriages because God gave a command that no one should engage in same sex relationships. In order to emphasize this, they have quoted the book of Leviticus chapter eighteen and verse twenty-two which terms these relationships as a disgrace. They have insisted that gay marriages should not be permitted this is because if God says something is wrong, then it should be deemed wrong and people should not practice it.
The Gay marriage issue has been on the discussion table for quite a long time now, usually it is seen as the civil rights of an individual versus morality. Some states have resulted to giving licenses to such couples others denying them as they believe that giving gay couples the full benefit of marriage is ‘killing’ the culture of traditional marriages(Arp,2007). Many governments have found a huge ethical flaw in allowing gay marriages. This is mainly because these unions reduce the continued existence of the human race the couples cannot procreate. Since gay couples cannot produce children naturally, they adopt them. The children in this relationships end up lacking one parent as they grow up either a mother or a father, which might affect them negatively in future. This therefore interferes with the ordinary situation for nurturing children in a normal family by a father and a mother, and hence causing moral relativism. Different states have favored normal marriages mainly because they provide the most favorable conditions for their future citizens.
From the Darwinian point of view, homosexuality is purely wrong because human beings are given a duty to advance the growth as well as the spread of the human species. This can be achieved if only there exists a constant reproductive entity among the human race. In this case, we can therefore group homosexuality, as Paraphilias. This abnormal sexual attraction cannot result to offspring production. This could include zoophilia; pedophilias as well as homosexuality. Paraphilias weaken the society largely since they daunt ordinary mating between individuals, they are hence against revolution. A culture that allows homosexuality corrupts the evolutionary pattern and the offsprings produced from these relationships are likely to lack a proper reproductive influence.
The Danish Parliament in Netherlands was the very first in the world to pass a law allowing homosexual partnerships in the year 1989.This granted gay couples with rights to be like those people in normal marriages. Due to this lifestyle, the Danish community has a very low reproductive pace; they are therefore driving evolution to a dead end. There is a possibility that the Danish Culture might become extinct in a few years to come.
Virtue Ethics mainly focuses on the outcome and the particular acts of an individual and the way to arbitrate the morals of an action to evaluate the ethics of the person. The most important thing in this theory is if an individual acting is able to maintain good character .Virtue ethics are hence used to establish how wrong or right an action is. In this case, it is not possible to assess the morals of every person going into any type of marriage. We can therefore say that gay marriage is as moral as any other marriage. Scholars using this theory have argued that it is the society that should be considered moral not a person.
According to Aristotle, the key goal in ethics is achieved when an individual finds his individual contentment; he says that happy people have a good character. Therefore, if an individual engages in an action that will increase positive outcomes such as happiness and lessen negative outcomes, then the action is considered right and the person ought to do it. Individuals enter into these marriages simply because they want to find and share happiness with their partners and they are confident that these unions will not bring them destruction. Virtue ethics therefore terms same sex marriages as ethical and states that we should not be quick to classify a deed as wrong because then we will be causing a group of people their happiness and oppression for the rest of their lives (DesAutels,2010)
Virtues are qualities that make one a good human being, they are good for the one who possesses them for he will tend to be happier and healthier, they are hence a benefit to the holder. Different authors have argued that same sex love leads to unhappiness of an individual. They term it as abnormal and madness since it involves using an individual’s body parts in an unnatural way. To further prove their point they indicated that any abnormal behavior leads to unhappiness to the individual practicing it hence homosexuality will be inclined to make one unhappy. One of the basic requirements about sex within marriage is that sex must be productive, in that, there should be offsprings produced naturally at a certain point within the individual’s marriage life. This requirement however does not allow for the morality of any non-vaginal intercourse as homosexuals practice it.
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