Paper #3 (1,583 words)
Marriage bans were an important stepping stone in preventing the economic development of minorities. People dream of marriage, finding a special someone to fall in love with, then propose and get married. Not only do the benefits of marriage include spending the rest of your life with someone, but also IRS tax cuts, Social Security benefits, insurance savings, and even citizenship. This helps build generational wealth, giving voting power to some and, thus, causing a married couple to have more power in society. So, laws prohibiting marriage between two people of the same sex or different races limit access to a higher form of living. Same-sex and Interracial marriage bans are mostly similar because of their discriminatory practices that prevented the development of minorities, but Same-sex Bans were created to keep natural law rules intact and are tied to religion, while interracial bans were to keep the white race pure and citizenship of foreigners low. Marriage bans for ...