Marrying the person you love is one of the greatest joys of life. When one meets the love of their life, the right and obvious thing to do is to get married. But, what happens if the right to marry is denied? Then one panics and tries to figure out a way that one can get legally married. This is what homosexuals in California are going through. They can not marry their loved one because of a law that was passed in 1996 called “The Defense of Marriage Act.” This law states that, “the word ‘marriage’ means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife” (United States). The controversy is whether or not same-sex marriages sho
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