Are you personally in favor of legalizing gay marriage?

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During his campaign, Mr Obama promised to abolish the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) which defines marriage as a commitment between a man and a woman. More recently, during a dinner organized by a gay organization in Washington, the US President reasserted his belief in their cause. It is a sign that things are changing and that the gay case is now taken in consideration. Yet it is still an open debate whether gays should or shouldn't be allowed to marry. I personally deem that they should, as I can't see any reason why people who want to couldn't commit to one another.

Strangely enough, a majority of American still strongly oppose to the gay people's will to marry. Strangely, because not only is this a shocking decision and a proof of narrow-minding, but also a paradoxical will, given that those people justify their choice by saying that marriage is a fundamental social institution. Still, if they truly believed that much in marriage, they should be proud that people see it as something important, and not preventing them to have access to such a great thing.

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[...] They want to differ from gays, by having more rights. That's why the gay people's case is so close from the one that triggered the Civil Rights Movement. Barack Obama, by comparing the plight of gays to the one of Black people in the 1960s, simply made this reality official. People who struggle against gay marriage struggle in fact for the superiority of heterosexual people, people. To see same-sex couples in the streets shocks many people, and it is completely inconceivable for a lot of individuals to vote for a President that were gay. [...]

[...] Why wouldn't it be possible in the gay's case? It's exactly the same thing, and legalizing same-sex union would help people change their narrow-minded view. Admittedly it would be criticized at the beginning, but then people would get used to it and admit the fact that all men are created equal, no matter if they are black or white, homosexual or heterosexual. To sum up, legalizing gay marriage is not the real question of this debate, just as allowing black people to sit in front of the bus wasn't the real issue that triggered the Civil Right Movement. [...]

[...] Are you personally in favor of legalizing gay marriage? During his campaign, Mr Obama promised to abolish the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) which defines marriage as a commitment between a man and a woman. More recently, during a dinner organized by a gay organization in Washington, the US President reasserted his belief in their cause. It is a sign that things are changing and that the gay case is now taken in consideration. Yet it is still an open debate whether gays should or shouldn't be allowed to marry. [...]

[...] Marriage is no longer the fundamental social institution defended by the opponents of legalizing gay marriage, thus their argument doesn't work anymore. Actually, marriage is waning. People no longer consider it as an important value, and the divorce rates rising dramatically are a straightforward proof. Then why are people fighting for something in which they don't believe anymore? I don't believe that they truly disagree with gay people being allowed to marry. I think they don't care, or at least they care less than they claim to. [...]