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Same Sex Marriages

As a child, I was taught by my parents to believe that all people, no matter what nationality, race or gender they may be are all equal and deserve to be treated equal.

However, this lesson didn't include sexual orientation. Due to my Catholic faith, I was brought up to believe that homosexuality was a sin and an act against God. From my earliest memories, I remember my dad telling me that they should all be burned together on an island. At an early age, that's what I believed. In the years during puberty, when I realized that I was what my father hated, I decided, based on what they told me, that the kind of person I am, was an act against God and nature.

Now, after finally coming out as being a gay male, my eyes look to the future and the type of person I want to spend my life with. During my coming out process, marriage was something that always stuck on my mind. I knew the marriage laws in Canada would prohibit me from getting married to a man who I would want to spend the rest of my life with.

Marriage is the union of two people who want to share their lives together, who love each other, and want to be united as one. In today's society, marriage is still considered the union of a man and a woman. However, it is said that today, more than 10% of the world's population is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered. Knowing this, the Government of Canada should aid in changing the current definition of marriage.

As said before, marriage is the union of two people who "love" each other. Love is a feeling that two people share by caring for each other, protecting each other, and doing no matter what to make the other happy. Gays and lesbians share the same type of love for each other as any man and woman do. Two people, whether they are gay or straight, who want to share the rest of their lives together, deserve the act of joining together in matrimony. By being denied marriage, the civil rights of Gays and Lesbians are being violated. They are people too. As Canadian citizens, we are having our rights, which are guaranteed to us by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, violated and taken away from us as citizens of this country.