Response to Social Justice

Social justice can be described as justice that is exercised towards a society and the various social classes of a society. In order for there to be social justice, society needs to understand and value human rights as well as recognize the dignity of every human being. This definition that I found on Wikipedia is a great way to lead into the article I found online about marriage and how it applies to social justice. Although I do not agree with the articles perception of social justice, I think it applies to the definition I provided above because it excludes the values for all human rights. The article stresses that marriage between a man and a woman is a matter of social justice. In the article, the author argues against redefining marriage and marriage equality because marriage as an institute protects the rights of children, and with same-sex marriages, those rights are not being protected. The argument that marriage is a social justice institute for children is supported by the fact that when people support same-sex marriage, they are focusing on marriage as a purely sexual adult institute instead of one that promotes the well-fair of children. The worry about a redefinition of marriage is that adults will think of it as only the desires of adults and those outcomes will produce bad social outcomes for children. Furthermore, the article throws in research that states children are better raised with a mother and a father. Because of all the evidence I have listed, I really think this article applies well to social justice because it is ignoring the rights of all people and their dignity. I think that this article does not address social justice as well as the author thinks it does because it is not accepting of all humans and their rights. I understand that children are a huge part of marriage, but they should not be the only focus. There is a larger picture of social justice than only marriage between a man and a woman. The article is afraid of social justice because children will be the result of bad outcomes, but it does not address that thousands of children are already experiencing bad outcomes from a marriage that involves a man and a woman. I do not think that it is okay to argue that same-sex marriage will negatively affect children because thousands of mothers and fathers already give their children bad outcomes. This article should not act as if they are supporting social justice because they are discriminating against a group of humans and their rights. Social justice needs to include all humans and their rights in order to better serve society and the well fair of humans in general.