You Yu Yeh

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Term Paper Title	You Yu Yeh
# of Words	1126
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	4.5

You Yu Yeh
4-16-99
English 1B
Professor Runyan
Essay#2
Same-Sex Marriage

     ¡§Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.  It is an association that promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects¡¨, from U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Douglas 1965.  Should the definition of family include gay and lesbian partnerships?  A surprising decision of approving the homosexual¡¦s marriage by the Hawaii Supreme Court has awakens the issue of same-sex marriage.  Two-thirds of all Americans are reportedly opposed to the idea, but the discussion has just begun.  I will present same-sex marriage¡¦s the historical evidence, its discrimination, and the advantage for gay and lesbian.
     In many cultures and in many eras, the issue of same-sex marriage has emerged.  The early Egyptian and Mesopotamian societies that are considered important antecedents for Western culture apparently tolerated same-sex relationships in their culture, literature, and mythology.  Evidence shows that these societies recognized same-sex marriage is speculative.  Later, however, one finds more tangible evidence of same-sex marriage in classical Greece, imperial Rome, and medieval Europe.  According to The Case for Same-Sex Marriage (1996),  about Egyptian, some artifacts have same-sex couples in intimate poses, suggesting that Egyptian society at some points in its history was accepting of same-sex relationships, and the best documented are the same-sex marriages of Rome¡¦s emperors.  There is also strong evidence demonstrating the existence of same-sex unions, including legally recognized marriages, in Native American, African, and Asian cultures.  The unions serve important functions for the partners:  economic, professional, or social in nature. Throughout human history people have entered into same-sex unions because they loved one another and desired the intimacy that close companionship offers.  These are neither unprecedented nor unnatural.
     To say that same-sex marriage is a novelty is true from the point of view of a twentieth-century American but is false from the point of view of the ancient people.  The United State insistence on heterosexuality in marriage is a denial of formal equality for gay and lesbian citizens. According to Same-Sex Marriage (1997) that the defense of marriage act prohibits federal  recognition of same-sex ...

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