A Discussion And Analysis Of Same Sex Marriage - 1825 Words

â€Å"A Discussion and Analysis of Same-Sex Marriage in the United States† Tranard J. Harvin Dr. Yousuf PLJS 301 - American Government Claflin University November 13, 2015 A Discussion and Analysis of Same-Sex Marriage in the United States Tranard J. Harvin, Claflin University Introduction The notion of same-sex love is as ancient as human love and the question of how it is recognized and understood has bedeviled every human civilization. This institution has existed since the date of Plato’s Symposium and has even been evident in seventeenth-century China and nineteenth century Africa where it was identical to opposite-sex marriage (Sullivan, 2004). Until the fourteenth-century of the Common Era, same-sex unions existed and were†¦show more content†¦This debate is evitable across religious practices and is based on the morale of a number of religious books including the Torah and the Holy Bible. In each of these widely used religious books, the institution of marriage is between a man and woman and any other union is considered an abomination. The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze Same-Sex Marriage in the United States based on the arguments in favor of and against this recently legalized institution. The recent Supreme Court ruling in favor of Same-Sex Marriage has caused great controversy in the United States. People from both sides of this argument are still feeling the backfire from this decision. It is not easy to justify same-sex marriage, an institution that some same-sex couples consider to be a political act (Kimport, 2013). Despite the contemporary understandings of marriage as a personal union based on love, this implicit collective identity can easily be misinterpreted as a dislike for such unions. In fact, it is the exact opposite. Statement of the Problem Same-sex marriage has been both supported and not supported on the basis of several clusters of variables. These variables, according to Kimport, include symbolic politics, moral and religious attitudes and