Equality

Equality Throughout time, we, as humans, have come up with a myriad of ways to discriminate against one another. As we go along we find something we don’t like about a certain group of individuals, we segregate them and shun them publicly, then after a while someone disagrees with what is happening, and eventually we slowly change our laws to accept and protect this group. Race, skin color, religious beliefs, economical status, national origin, people with disabilities, all different ways we have originally thought were things to spurn and reject, and then decide to make our equals. Most recently, homosexuality has become yet another way for us to discriminate. Can we see a trend forming' The current matter at hand is whether gays should be allowed to be married and have the same rights and privileges as a heterosexual married couple. “Under a 1996 law, the federal government does not recognize gay marriages,” (MSNBC). Though this is federal law, changes can be made by individual states. The state of Vermont has made a law that recognizes same-sex civil unions. “The key difference between civil unions and marriage is that benefits from civil unions would stop at the Massachusetts border while rights from marriage, law, laws, far, unions, status, same-sex, rights, people, msnbc, massachusetts, gay, federal, discriminate, couples, civil, another, among, while, wed, ways, under, time, things, supreme, states, state, something, seems, reject, one, new, married, make, made, license