Ngọc Linh_ Phương Trinh

For same-sex marriage

Secretary General Banka-moon (Human rights day 2014) proclaimed in his message that “

human rights are for all of us, all the time, whoever we are and whenever we are from, no

matter our class, our opinions, our sexual orientation”. However, marriage rights especially

same-sex marriage has been a controversial issue for a long time. Some people think that the

legislation for same-sex marriage should be passed whereas some object to this. It our firm

belief that same-sex marriage should be legalised.

Everyone has rights to live, be free and pursue happiness. Therefore, right to love is one of the

most basic human rights of human being. All of people deserve the rights of citizenship to love

anyone they feel affection regardless of their gender. No one even their parents or government

could prevent them coming to each other. Hillary Clinton (April 2015) claimed that there was no

doubt to recognize and treat every loving couple and family equally under any circumstances.

Moreover, people must respect equality right instead of discrimination and segregation. The

Court realized that if any groups were told apart, it would make our struggle for a better union

lag behind ( Clinton, June 2013, U.S. Supreme Court). According to C. Smart’s survey (as cited in

Looking for Love in the legal discourse of marriage, 2014, p. 85) which also contributes to

equality rights, the statistic points out that the number of people who back up for gay marriage

increases twofold between 2001 and 2005. There were fourteen countries including Uruguay,

New Zealand and France which allowed same-sex couple to get married in 2013 (Renata, 2014,

p. 91).
Last but not least, it is belived that same-sex couples can do better in the parental role because

there is no evidence showing that the gender of parents can affect the ability to provide

children with a loving, caring and safe environment to develop completely. For instance, Judith

Butler(as cited in Looking for Love in the legal discourse of marriage, 2014,p.94) is one of people

who indicates the take-off of non-traditional family models not only in homosexual families but

also in other cultures such as African American families in the US and Na families in China. Labor

MP Anthony Albanese(as cited in Looking for Love in the legal discourse of marriage, 2014, p.95)

said that he had seen a lot of bad parents but he had not seen bad same-sex parents and every

same-sex couple he knew really wanted their child and loved their child. Empricial studies

consistently show that deveploping in a homosexual famlily has a neutral or positive impact on

bringing children up.

Opponents of this view say that same-sex couples can not have happy lives because they are

not able to have children by themselves. This point has some merits on the surface. However, in

these days, with the development of science, there are a various ways for same-sex couples to

have children such as baby cloning, artificial insemination, donors or surrogacy agreements.

Another key thing to remember is that apart from scientific methods, the homosexual can

adopt children who are street chidren, are abondoned in hospital or those in an orphanage. This

is not only bring happiness to homosexual families but aslo give unlucky nippers new hopes and

new lives with love and protection. What is more, not all the couples marrying due to desiring
to have children because they want to enjoy their lives with their life partners, spend all their

time and all their love for their beloved or travelling around the world together.