I Now Prenounce You...

The Constitution is the most upheld and respected document in the history of the United States. However, it is also one of the most morally flawed documents in the history of the world. Most politicians use this 200 year old piece of paper to both justify the changes they wish to make to this nation and rationalize why some things don’t need to change. I for one think that change is something that people just have to accept as an inevitability. Think of all the rights that you and your peers would not be able to share if The Constitution was never challenged. According to this “great text“, only white men who own property would be able to vote. Sounds ridiculous right? By this logic, poor white men, minorities, and women of all colors would not be able to vote in this upcoming election or any prior to this one. Gay sex between consenting male adults was illegal in nine states until 2003. Up until 1967, over 38 states legally forbid interracial marriage. Same sex married couples also are not eligible for the same tax breaks that heterosexual couples do. If that doesn’t rattle your cage, then how about this…both candidates are against gay marriage because they don’t feel that they should alter The Constitutions definition of marriage; “A sacred union between a man and a women”. Now I myself am a proud heterosexual, however I have several friends who enjoy quite a different lifestyle of my own, and I accept them for it. Despite this, a large percent (about 55 to be exact) of America seems to disagree. Although there were gay congress members in president Herbert Hoovers cabinet almost 100 years ago, some members of government refuse to vote to legalize gay marriage because they are either holding on to their idiotic religulous beliefs, or holding on to an equally idiotic belief that old men in wigs over 200 years ago concocted into our nations law.The main question that I ask to these politicians and naysayers, is why not? Who would it hurt by letting two people who love each other, and happen to be of the same sex, get married to each other? Is it impossible for a same-sex marriage to work? Can they not raise a good family? Why should two heterosexual people who would marry each other solely based on unfortunate circumstance(ex: pregnancy) have more of a right to get married than a homosexual couple who loves each other.?The truth is that no one can answer these questions without referring to a piece of paper written by people in a totally different time period of 200 years, or in some cases, 2000 years ago. Times change and people progress. There is no logical reason that I could think of that a gay couple should be outlawed from legally recognizing their love just as a straight couple does. Where would society be today if we never questioned the teachings of people from such long times ago? [1]