Essay - Civil Unions and Benefits for Same Sex Couples Gay Individuals...

Civil Unions and benefits for same sex couples

Gay individuals in this country have recently begun fighting in earnest for the right to legally be bound to one another. Some states allow them to have civil unions, but they are generally not happy with ***** and they want the full rights that marriage would ***** them, such as *****surance and other issues. There are other states and other countries, though, that have ruled in favor of marriage for homosexual *****. When couples get married ***** these are***** and then move to places where marriages are not recognized it becomes a problem, ***** they ***** to fight ***** many of their rights. Gay marriage is something that ***** still a very touchy subject for a lot of people, and ***** may never be passed in all states. However, there are many reasons why gays should be allowed to legally be ***** to ***** an***** through ***** unions, and the most compell*****g reason is that civil ***** go along with natural law. For purposes ***** understanding, natural law will be discussed here, and *****n it will be shown how this law ties into the civil unions issue. Other compelling reasons, such as the ***** that these individuals can get ***** civil ***** are also very significant and ***** ***** be discussed.

***** law is based not on what is created by man, ***** on the laws of reality. In other words, what is real is law, regardless of ***** man has to say about that *****. Laws of nature and unexplainable ***** that are related ***** natural occurrences (***** some people ***** relate to religi*****) are seen as natural ***** (Dolhenty, 2003). It is *****what complicated ***** explain, but explanation is ***** necessary. Natural law does not change, and must ***** discovered by people. It involves moral law, ethical law, and ***** issues that are not changed b*****ed on what men decide or whether they think that these laws are appropriate.

One ***** the most significant individuals in history who looked at natural law as it related to ethics and virtue was Aris*****tle. The ma***** concept that Aristotle discussed ***** virtue. It would appear that virtue was very important to him, ***** that most everything that can be said about hu*****ity hinges on ***** in one way or ano*****r. He saw virtue as being composed of two different things, and being both intellectual and moral. ***** intellectual part ***** virtue comes from being taught, and the moral ***** comes from the habits that ***** has and shows throughout their life (*****, 360).

This would seem to make sense, since ********** morals ***** ideals often change as they grow older, but ***** of the more ingrained ***** that a specific person h***** seem to rem*****in largely the *****, whether they ***** moral or not. People can change some*****, however, as they are taught new things and learn ***** life ***** both standard teaching, such as schooling, and the ***** that comes from simply