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Gay Marriage is An Abomination [|Blaine Mitchell] is a dual credit and honors student at [|Eldorado High School] who is in the top 10% of the class and is an active member of Student Council and National Honor Society. He is also a member of the Eldorado First Baptist Church. February 14, 2013

I, for one, am against same sex-marriage. There are many people that are for the legalization of gay marriage, but I advise them to take a second look. It is wrong from a religious stand point, a lawful stand point, is invalid from a Constitutional stand point, and isn't healthy for anyone involved.  From the religious aspect of this argument, gay marriage is strictly forbidden and considered a sin. God created man in his own image and from man he created woman. God blessed them and told them to be fruitful and to populate the Earth. Notice how he made man and women for each other; he did not leave man alone on Earth; he had a plan. God wanted humans to live, thrive, and dominate over all the other creatures of this world. Yet, to do this mankind had to be able to reproduce and so God created a partner for man, he made women. But, the fall of man caused man to turn on God's plan. In Romans 1:26-27 the Bible states, “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error”. A gay relationship itself is an abomination to God, but now people are pushing for the legalization of this wretched sin. They want to push for the legalization of something that is dishonorable in God's eyes and allow homosexuals to join in holy matrimony? A right that is reserved for a man and a woman, the way God planned it? I feel like that is a slap to our creators face. Only a man and woman should have the privilege to marry. Furthermore on the biblical stand point of whether gay marriage is “right” or “wrong” one could look at the law of gravity. Here on this Earth, we are bound to laws. One of them is the law of gravity. What goes up, must come down. If a man were to climb up on top of the tallest building, full heartedly believing that he can fly and then jumped off, I can assure you that he isn't going to fly anywhere but straight down into hard cement. It doesn't matter that he doesn’t believe in gravity, he must still obey its law. A person can believe anything is right but there are always laws and limitations. Just because one gets an idea and thinks it is really good one, it doesn’t make them right or give them the power to make it a law. God’s law was first, and we must respect that. From the constitutional point of view, we are given 3 rights or our “God Given Rights” which are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness. But, the Pursuit of happiness is just that, it's a pursuit, which mean we are not guaranteed happiness. If what makes me happy is to go to a school full of children and massacre each one of them, I could pursue it! But that doesn't make it right or okay. I will go to jail and face the death penalty for committing such an act. My point being, that we aren't guaranteed happiness, we are just granted the right of pursuing it. If what one pursues isn’t rational, then their pursuit is cut short of happiness. I also feel that the reason gay marriage isn’t backed up by the Constitution is because the Constitution is a Christian-based document. The men who wrote it were from a Puritan background, which is a Christian-based religion, therefore, the Christian God is a fundamental backing of the Constitution. That is why there is no backing for gay marriage by the Constitution. Lastly, gay marriage isn’t healthy for anyone involved. N.E. Whitehead, a Ph.D and author of "My Genes Made Me Do It", wrote about the effects of homosexuality in an [|article] that says "recent studies show homosexuals have a substantially greater risk of suffering from psychiatric problems than do heterosexuals. We see higher rates of suicide, depression, bulimia, antisocial personality disorder, and substance abuse." This might not be the case for all homosexuals, but could be for the majority of them. Also, if the effects of homosexuality are so devastating to the homosexuals themselves, think about the children they adopt. These children are not only subject to all of those health problems listed above, but are also neglected on the point of not having either a mother or a father figure. Some traits and characteristics can only be influenced by the specific gender. This could also leave the child unsure to the role that they plan in this world. The topic of whether or not gay marriage should be legalized is going to be kicked around for many years to come. The important thing to remember is that we are all human beings whether we are heterosexual or homosexual and we all must abide by the same rules. God’s word is law, and we were all created to follow it. We are not animals therefore, we can resist our sinful urges and turn our backs on it. Gay marriage is wrong and should not be legalized.

A dual credit senior at [|Eldorado High School]. || ||
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