Same-Sex Marriage

Introduction
Same-sex marriage is a union between a man and another man or a woman with another woman. Gay and lesbian marriages are emerging controversial global issues. The paper will address the question of gay marriages, to show why gay marriages should not be promoted (Damslet, 1992). Few decades ago marriage was recognized as a union between a man and a woman. With civilization especially in the western countries, cases of men and women interest for same-sex partners have alarmingly risen. The world welcomed the idea with a lot of opposition due to it nature and suspicion of destroying tradition family setup with a father, a mother, and children. With a lot of supportive activists, there has been a little acceptance although very few gay people would stand and proclaim to be gay (Lahey & Alderson, 2009).  Stigma and marginalization in the society compel gay individuals to stay on a low profile. Gay marriage is not a suitable environment for upbringing children; homosexual marriages do not allow continuity of human race. Many religious affiliations do not support gay marriages that make the union a social disorder. Gay marriage is a social misfit idea that should not be tolerated.

Studies have revealed that children have better growth outcome when raised by their biological parents or at least when adopted by straight parents and not gay parents. Gay parent’s children were reported to have frequent arrests and probably dropping out of high school or college (…