Legislation should be passed for gay marriage to be made legal on political, social, and religious grounds. Homosexually is a way of life, and therefore government protects it. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (Section 1 of amendment 14)

This section of the 14th amendment states that if one person, or group, is given the right to do something then the same right and/or privilege must be made available to all people in all states. Since heterosexual people have the right to marry then gay people should also have the right to marry. One of the proponents against gay marriage is that some people feel that it will weaken the values of families. They feel it will downplay the significance of marriage and lead to indecent practices such as marrying family members and multiple people, to even highly unlikely pairings such as to objects or animals. Gay marriage however, actually has the potential to enhance the value of family life. Since gay couples can not procreate they will be naturally inclined to adopt children. In 2006 there were about 520,000 children in foster care, according to the North American Council on Adoptable Children in St. Paul. Of those, 120,000 were available for adoption, but only 50,000 found permanent homes each year. Gay couples could be the answer to giving thousands of kids loving homes that desperately need them. Some of the religious talk against used against gay marriage is based on the Levitical code which says, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination:” (Leviticus 18:22) Later text reveals that this one law was part of a whole set of outdated and unjust laws that the church would view as unreasonable. For example, the levitical code calls for the stoning of a women who is found not to be a virgin on her marriage day. Certainly the church would not advocate this practice or law so it should not try to give credence to the law code that demands it. This is the practice of eisegesis, which is the practice of adding extra meaning to biblical text in which the true intend of the writer of the text is misinterpreted. This is detrimental not only to the Christian church but to the American society and culture.