Throughout the thirty-some years the gay community has become more public in their life style choices and their want for the right to marry. In the 1970s, gay couples had been trying to have acknowledgment for their unions. By the 1980s gay couples fought for "domestic partnership", and by the 1990s the desire to marry arose as strong as ever (NOLO). Same-sex marriage isn't a new topic, but is one that must be dealt with carefully. Gay and lesbian couples should be allowed the marriage they have been fighting for; for both legal and social privileges, in which heterosexual couples have already acquired.
The battle of same sex marriage has been a long and indeed public one. Court cases date back to the 1970s and have spread from Washington to Pennsylvania. In the Zablocki v. Redhail case, the Supreme Court ruled that marriage to be "of fundamental importance to all individuals" and "a basic human right" (NOLO). In the 1974 case of Singer v. Hara, a man fought that denying right......
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