Why is it wrong to let humans of the same sex marry someone they truly love? Many people in our society share different opinions about why it is right and why it is wrong. Kim Davis (a clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky) decided to say no to handing out marriage licenses to same-sex couples because she felt it was against her religion. She refused to give her license to a same-sex couple and was put in prison. In this case, I am against Davis because you as a person have no right to go against the law and this individual freedom. I am very religious, but I have come to understand that there should never be a reason to forbid someone from dating the person they love based on their gender alone. The law in the United States allows same-sex marriage and no matter how angry people get, it is now allowed. Men and women now have the freedom to love their partner with comfort in society. Now they have the right to marry. Gay marriage has a historical background dating back to the 1970s. In the case of Baker v. Nelson, two men applied for a marriage license and were rejected even though Minnesota law did not specify gender in the marriage law. This is another point where the law does not specify gender, so why was it rejected? This tells me that people were judgmental and disliked the idea of same-sex marriage, so they simply agreed to reject it. The individual freedom to love another person and to marry has been taken away from these people just because
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