Homosexuals want to feel emotionally and financially safe just like heterosexuals. Homosexuals can attain some benefits of legal marriage when many homosexuals do not have the time or money it takes to get legal aid. Until the United States allows same sex couples to marry, homosexuals will not have rights and benefits that heterosexuals have. By not letting homosexuals marry, we are denying them rights every person should have Ms. Garner . Prejudice is a common threat that people of minorities and different opinions face every day.
Homosexuals are a large target.
The way they live is constantly opposed by people from every direction. The battle homosexuals fight today for the right to marry is not unlike the battle fought nearly 40 years ago also for the right to marry. This was the case of Loving versus Virginia, a black woman, Diana Jetter, and a white man, Harvey Loving, because interracial marriage was banned in the state of Virginia. They went to Washington, D.C. and got married. Because of the law, when they returned to the state they were arrested and sentenced to one year in prison.