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Gay Marriage Should Have Never Been a Question for America
Danielle LaBruzzo
Slippery Rock University

Gay Marriage Should Have Never Been a Question for America
From 1934, when gay citizens were rounded up from German occupied countries and sent to concentration camps; to the summer of 1970, when 200 Chicagoans took to the streets of their city with signs carrying simple messages such as "I am Gay," "Gay is as Good as Straight," and "I Exist!."(Ohio Edu), we as a country have made substantial progress towards the equal rights and dignity of all human beings. Finally, on June 26, 2015, after much anticipation, the White House was lit rainbow in celebration of the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same sex marriage …show more content…

The constitution, at the time, upheld bans on same sex marriage on the basis of them being considered to be “infertile”, although still offered those rights to elderly, and infertile heterosexual couples. The next agenda included the encouragement of both biological parents to raise their biological child in a stable home. With this, the plaintiffs countered with the question of why heterosexual couples were permitted to adopt and elect assistance in procreation, and still be granted the right to marry. Finally, the last agenda was discussed. The suggestion that “banning same sex marriage would channel procreative couples into optimal child rearing relationships.” Although the court found that there was a lacking connection and stated, “[t]here is no reason to believe that Amendment 3 has any effect on the choices of couples to have or raise children…” and that, the defendant was “Painting [categories of parents] with such a broad brush, by an impermissibly overbroad assumption that any opposite-sex couple is preferable to any same-sex couple” (law journal). Based on these examinations, the court held that, “[W]hen an individual’s membership in a suspect class is used as an imprecise proxy for an otherwise determinable characteristic, the mismatch does not meet the standards of the court.” As we can see, the U.S. …show more content…

Prehistoric, Barbarian, and Civilized. Among the prehistoric savages, marriage was seen as unrestricted sexual intercourse within members of a tribe, meaning that every woman belonged to every man or vice versa. (Evolution). Later, came what were known as Barbarians. Among this group, the pairing family was created. According to an article from The Intercollegiate Review, the construct of “[T]he pairing family was based on the nuclear pairing of one man with one woman, with a limitation on inbreeding through creation of the incest taboo.” Although, this practice still often allowed for sisters to be mutual wives of their mutual husband. Finally, what was known as the “civilized stage of marriage” began to take hold. Civilized marriage was based on the idea of “…the monogamous family, resting on patriarchal controls and enforced chastity and fidelity among women, in order to ensure the fathers’ lineages.” (Evolution). This form of marriage has been favored, and widely accepted throughout the United States for a great deal of time. From the 1940’s and 50’s where the nuclear family was based on ““role differentiation”, where wives/mothers took on the emotional tasks of gratification, warmth and stability, while husbands/fathers focused on instrumental tasks in the outside world.”; to the 1960’s and 70’s, where marriage “shift[ed] its core meaning from “procreation” to “pleasure”, and altered the

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