English Composition – Reading Response Paper
There are literally thousands of languages that are being spoken in the world today. Each of course, is unique in their own way; each language has its own phonation, sound, rhymes and other distinct characteristics, but what is common among people who practice any one or two of the thousands of speakable languages available is that they all have a term that may be used to describe marriage or the religious and civil process of unifying two individuals who want to share the rest of their lives with one another. Society did not allow thinking outside the box when it comes to marriage for thousands of years, solely believing on the traditional idea that only a man and a woman could be married and be guaranteed with the perks, rights, and benefits of being a married individual.
In the first article by Ebb and Kander (2003), they described about the how society perceived marriage in the past hundreds of years and how unfair it has been for homosexual individuals to be deprived of the federal and other civil rights that comes as a result of marriage, which unfortunately, is a right that has been taken away from the reach of gay people. The authors argued that society needs not to look at gay people as troubled and crazy individuals because they are not. They are just like other people, who are willing to sacrifice, and fulfill the duties of a married person, and contribute greatly to the society, in exchange of being granted the right to be free, and of course, to marry the person they want to be with for the rest of their lives, regardless of its gender status. The second article entitled My Big Fat Straight Wedding by Sullivan (2008) basically presents the same idea, that gay people do not deserve gay marriage but marriage itself.
The predicaments of these two authors is not only logical but are also well supported by some legal entities such as the Supreme court of the state of California. Indeed, if we stop looking at gay people as sick and troubled individuals, and start seeing them merely as another minority of people, we would see that it would be constitutionally outrageous to deprive them of the right to marriage and the privileges associated with it. At some point, this perception is a product of the long standing history of prejudice and discrimination against gay people, that if dishonored would make them worthy of enjoying the rights that straight person do, rights that they deserve in the first place. These two articles suggest that society should not care who loves who and who loves what as long as they love each other, and I am totally fine and comfortable with that idea.
Works Cited
Ebb, F. and J. Kander. "How the World can Change, It can Change Like That Due to One Little Word: Married." Goodridge, Department of Publich Health (2003).
Sullivan, Andrew. "My Big Fat Straight Wedding." The Atlantic (2008).
