Same-Sex Marriage

Running Head: SAME- SEX MARRIAGE
SAME- SEX MARRIAGE
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SAME- SEX MARRIAGE1
Since the 9th of December, 2017, same-sex marriage was legalized in Australia. This
was a revolutionary step that was taken after a voluntary postal survey conducted for All
Australians and it was realized that 61.6% of the people were for the legislation of Same-sex
marriage. This support was an answer to the question that had haunted people for so long,
why should same-sex couples be exempted from the joy of marriage, and why does the state
view this poorly? Everyone has the right to love each other, despite gender and sexual
orientations. This step was the ultimate acceptance of the fact that love is universal and if
people want to legally get married, the state has no right to discriminate. In this assignment,
this contemporary debate will be explored, given how many countries still look down upon
the same and same-sex marriage is banned. This paper will also be discussing the same in
reference to sociological theory.
The debate about same-sex marriage arises because of the fact that it challenges
normal sociological expectations from marriage, rendering it an unnatural edge. For years
marriage, have apparently served the social factor of procreation, it is assume d that a couple,
constituting of a man and a woman, who is legally bound in a marriage is will procreate and
ensure that the civilization goes on (Hewitt & Baxter 2012). Marriage was something that is
much generalized in the eyes of the society, for many it is the ultimate result of culmination
of a relationship. However, same-sex marriage, challenges the cultural norms laid down and
it dispels the idea of marriage existing between only a man and a woman and that people of
the opposite sex are allowed to fall in love. They advocate the fact that people are free to love
whoever they want and this society where norms are constantly changing with different sex
couples planning to move in together without marriage and going on with their lives as two
separate entities, in love with each other, sharing the belief that the law does not need to
define who they area and same sex couples hopeful about being recognized as an unit or
taking up the duty of an adopted, surrogate or an IVF child together, it is imperative that