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Essay / Drug Analysis by Gore Vidal - 1109
Why is it wrong to let humans of the same sex marry someone they really love? Many people in our society share different opinions on why this is right and why it is wrong. Kim Davis (Rowan County, Kentucky clerk) decided to say no to issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples because she felt it went against her religion. She refused to give a license to a same-sex couple and was put in prison. In this case I am against Davis because you as a person do not have the right to go against the law and this individual freedom. I'm very religious, but I've come to understand that there should never be a reason to forbid someone from dating the person they love simply because of their gender. In the United States, the law allows same-sex marriage and no matter how crazy people get, it is now allowed. Men and women now have the freedom to love their partners with comfort in society. They now have the right to marry. Gay marriage has a history dating back to the 1970s. In Baker v. Nelson, two men applied for a marriage license and were denied even though Minnesota law did not specify gender in the marriage statute. This is another point where the law does not specify gender, so why was it rejected? This tells me that people were judgmental and didn't like the idea of same-sex marriage, so they just agreed to reject it. The individual freedom to love another person and to marry has been taken away from these people simply because