Against Proposition 8 California's Proposition Essay

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According to the logic of the procreation argument, California should refuse to sanction any marriage unless the individuals involved are both willing and able to conceive. With respect to the "opening door" argument, opponents of Proposition 8 point out that incest, underage marriage, and bestiality are all prohibited by criminal laws for objective public policy reasons. Finally, the suggestion that gay marriage will "define" marriage is as preposterous as the concern that interracial marriage will have that effect. Unlike incestuous, underage, or bestial types of relationships that victimize one of the individuals involved, gay marriage between consenting adults does not involve victimizing either of the individuals involved.

Furthermore, heterosexual marriages are sanctioned by law completely irrespective of any measure of quality of the relationship; marriages typically last less than a decade in the U.S. And more than half of them end in divorce.

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Likewise, both sexual infidelity and domestic violence are hardly rare among married couples. Meanwhile, the comparative incidence of domestic violence and related problems in homosexual marriages is typically much lower than in traditional marriages. Therefore, to the extent government-imposed criteria for state-sanctioned marriage is appropriate, it should apply to objective measures of relationship quality rather than arbitrary definitions with no basis in logical principles.

California's Proposition 8 is completely out of synch with the modern social and legislative trend of recognizing the need to broaden rather than narrow the range of people who deserve equal protection of law and recognition of their civil rights. Future generations of Americans will likely look back at the Proposition 8 and the objection to gay marriage much the same way that contemporary Americans now regard very similar concerns….....

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