What effect would legalizing gay marriage have on our society?
The benefits for society as a whole for recognizing same sex marriage are so many. I mean, from wanting people to be in stable and healthy relationships, wanting people to take responsibility for their families. Through marriage, you're responsible for what happens to your spouse and what happens to your children. Instead of something happening and the government and tax payers having to cover the cost of health care or housing or food, it's actually your responsibility when you get married. So there's the benefit for society as far as the tax payers way of looking at it. There's, another benefit for society is that families are recognized and are together and it strengthens families. When people go through a marriage, they're more likely to work on their relationship and make it work when they have problems. Of course there's a huge benefit for society when people are treated equally. When people feel that they're discriminated against by their government, they have less respect sometimes for themselves and their relationships, and it's bad for everyone when people are not treated equally in our society. So society as a whole just improves and I think, people as a whole become a better group of people when they're treated fairly because then everyones looking at each other as an equal instead of some people looking at each other as superior or inferior.
