Eric Presto: Same-Sex Marriage

20 years ago, people could hardly accept the concept of same-sex marriage at all. They regarded these “special people” as dangerous animals like bears and snakes. However, nowadays, the world is changing rapidly. Many of the ideas and traditions are becoming extinct. More and more people are getting accustomed to the existence of these people. However, the fact that same-sex marriage is becoming a threat to the traditional family will never change.

First, same-sex marriage challenges the traditional definition of family. The common traditional definition of family is a man united with a woman by marriage. Therefore, after the wedding ceremony a family is established. However, if a man marries a man, or a woman marries a woman, this union does not meet the definition of a family. Thus we do not call them a family. Nevertheless, same-sex groups are conducting a series of activities such as pride parade and organizing their own clubs to loud their voice, declaring they should not only be regard as normal families, but also proud of their behaviors. --The traditional definition of family is in danger that it would be changed to a new one by such continuous movements at any time.

Second, the increasing number of same-sex marriage is changing the world’s population of opposite-sex families. There was even a report in recent newspaper telling people “gayby boom” is one of the most significant phenomena all over the world. As a matter of fact, the more gays and lesbians there are, the less opposite-sex families there will be. Although gays and lesbians are still a small group of people in the world, compared to twenty years ago, the same-sex marriage is now on the rise. In addition, there are some people who were not same-sex interested when they were young, but due to any reason, slowly and slowly they changed from normal people to gays or lesbians. It is the most dangerous thing that is happening because once a man changes from normal person to a gay, it means not only the number of gays will increase, but also the number of traditional family will decrease at the same time. It is steering at double speed.

Last, the children raised in same-sex marriage environment will greatly affect the way of thinking of same-sex marriage in the next generation. In addition to adopting children, it is amazing to learn that the same-sex marriage union is starting to have “their own” children by having a surrogate to help them. Therefore, their children must be greatly influenced by their gay or lesbian parents. It is a question that whether a child who is raised by gays or lesbians can have a traditional judgment and attitude on same-sex marriage.

In conclusion, the same-sex marriage is threatening the traditional family. By challenging the traditional definition of family, with the increasing numbers of same-sex marriage and children growing up in same-sex union, will the future become gay’s and lesbian’s world?