When it comes to legalizing gay marriage, it doesn’t matter who’s right or wrong. It doesn’t serve us to take sides. However, it does benefit us to understand how we may unify this world faster. In many ways, the world is stuck in judgment. World peace is stifled when people attempt to control other’s nonviolent, nonthreatening decisions, which have no detrimental effect on anyone’s lives but that of the chooser. What are critics of gay marriage really protecting? Who are they really helping? What is their control really doing? Critics are scared of the unknown and change. Thousands of years ago lawmakers sanctioned beheading, torture, crucifixion, using fear and control to protect their ways of life. Today some of these methods still exist in the world. Just because we have done things a certain way for millennia, doesn’t mean society needs to be in fear of change today, especially when it hurts no one. The sooner law permits gay marriage, the sooner humanity takes another step towards a unified world.