Gay Marriage Facts

The Goal: End Oppression against the LGBTQ+ Community: Starting with legalizing Same-sex marriage.

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Denying same-sex couples the right to marry stigmatizes them as inferior and sends a message that it is okay to discriminate against them.

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Since 1990 Almost 40 Countries Have Legalized Same-Sex Relationships.

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Gay Marriage is banned due to the same kind of close-minded, oppressive ideas that kept interracial marriage banned for so long.

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33/50 States ban Same-Sex marriage, and that is absolutely unacceptable.

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Marriage is, at it’s core, a civil union between two people, and is a right protected by our 14th amendment; gender is irrelevant.

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Civil Unions are not an alternative to allowing same-sex marriage, as they are not recognized by the federal gov. or given the same rights.

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Because marriage comes with many benefits for couples, denying couples the right to marry based on sexuality deprives them of those rights.

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Same-sex couples are denied, among the right to marry, many other rights associated with marriage, such as medical decisions for spouses.

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It was found that children raised by a same-sex couple scored above the national average when it came to family cohesion and overall health

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Studies show kids raised by same-sex couples are perfectly happy with their familial lives and are unaffected by their parent's relationship