Same-Sex Marriages

Marriages for same-sex couples are legally accepted in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusette, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washington, D.C. In today's society in the U.S., same-sex marriage and abortion are the biggest and most sensitive issues. My church, unification Church, believes that original purpose of humans is to marry to opposite sex, give birth to children, and have a happy family, in where God can dwell. God created man and woman to become together but not man and man and woman and woman. If I just point a finger at gay people and say "you are wrong," I will be the one should be accused.

I have a friend, who exposed that he was a gay on facebook in the last summer. Because I strongly believe in my church's teaching about the unification of a man and woman, I felt so sorry to hear that he was a gay. I asked the friend, "How did you become a gay?" He said when he entered middle school, he became interested in same sex.

I asked my pastor about why some people became gay. He explained that the homosexuality has a long history. In Japan, many monks became gays after they started living in a temple on the top of the mountain with other male monks. Because the monks are also humans, who have sexual desires, but there are only males in the temple, they had sexual relationships with other male monks to satisfy their own desire.

I thought the homosexuality is the result of the today's immoral society, but the issue has a long history. Some researchers say that environment has strongly affects people to become gay. For example, if someone was sexually abused by his same-sex parent, he remembers the experience and desires to have sex only with same-sex. Other researcher says that it is a biological issue: Some people are born to be gay. I still have lack of knowledge about the homosexuality, so I will need more research on the issue.

It's very sad to see that many places in the U.S. accept the gay marriages. If what the researchers say about "the environment cause people to become gay" is true, then the U.S. has to try to make a better society, which encourages to have a healthy, moral family with no violence or abuse. Children need father and mother to receive love from both sides, but children cannot grow properly if the love from either father or mother is absent; therefore, the same-sex marriage should be discouraged in order to raise children in the right way and make moral and peaceful society.