The case in which the United States Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in all fifty states was Obergefell v. Hodges. Hodges. Jim Obergefell, an Ohio resident, was seeking to be listed on his husband's death certificate, where the couple had been married for twenty years. In the decision, the notion of the Fourteenth Amendment played a huge role in this case, where the court held that their "fundamental freedoms protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment extend to certain personal choices essential to the dignity and to individual autonomy, including intimate relationships. choices defining personal identity and beliefs” (Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, Director of the Ohio Department of Health, et al). The due process clause establishes the law. Catholics, on the contrary, have been found to be more lenient and more tolerant towards homosexuals, where their percentage is between forty-eight percent and thirty-two percent. The report goes on to state that “seven in ten evangelical Christians opposed allowing same-sex couples to legally marry. In contrast, fifty-six percent of those who did not belong to any religious denomination said they were in favor” (Swanson). Another example that arouses hatred in closed-minded individuals is Romans 1:26-27, which states that "God has given them over to dishonorable passions...27 men have also renounced natural relationships with women and have been consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts against men and receiving in themselves the punishment due them for their actions. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. He who loves God must also love his brother,” while Romans 1:18-32 states that those who fall into the temptation of homosexual relationships are “filled with all manner of unrighteousness, wickedness, lust, wickedness.” They are full of envy, murder, strife, deception, wickedness...those who practice such things deserve death. For the question of whether or not being identified as gay to be acceptable in society, we must first reshape society's moral obligations to the gay community, deciding whether our religious beliefs should trump about laws that have discriminated against gays and lesbians for hundreds of years, or whether we should accept the current decrees prompted by the Supreme Court and accept same-sex couples, where we ignore our religious dogmas in hopes of building a world full of peace and acceptance. I believe that as long as there are people who thrive on the intolerance of others, we will never truly live in a world without hatred towards others, because we are by nature prone to violence and