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As the world evolves all the people who live on it evolve as well. The United States basis its constitution on equal rights and that all people should treat each other with equal standards. The gay community over the past couple decades has evolved from not being able to marry legally, to a handful of states passing a law to allow gay marriage. Although laws are being enacted to better the equality of homosexuals, the gay community has a long way to go before they are equal with the rest of society. The gay community has been at a constant struggle for many years about whether they can legally get married in a court room. It has been a battle to get the states to sign off on the law which allows the next step in their relationship. “The legal challenge to DOMA stemmed from a suit by a New York woman, Edith Windsor, who was hit with a $363,000 federal estate tax bill after her wife died in 2009”( Gay Rights). The same situation also occurred but only with a couple of different sex it ended with the surviving spouse would have inherited it tax free. Many heterosexuals believe that it was only intended that a man and women get married and not women and women and vice versa. “Gay rights advocates are making significant gains in winning marriage rights for same-sex couples in the United States and around the world, even though the overwhelming majority of states and countries still limit marriage to opposite-sex couples” (Jost). Out of all fifty states about twelve and the District of Columbia have passed the same sex bill; since then a few more states have signed approving same sex marriage. Once all fifty states sign off on the same sex marriage law the gay community will be one step closer to being just as equal as the rest of so... ... middle of paper ... ...t under the microscope and looked at with a fine tooth comb. Only now they are finally getting what they deserve and that’s being equal with the rest of society; they are slowly progressing but not to the point of satisfaction for the gay community. The gay community is dedicated to fighting for equality and they aren’t going to stop till they accomplish their goal of living a normal life just like the rest of society. Works Cited Clemmitt, Marcia. "Reproductive Ethics." CQ Researcher 15 May 2009: 449-72. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. "Gay Rights." CQ Researcher 28 June 2013. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. (Rankin qtd in Jost). "Gays on Campus." CQ Researcher 1 Oct. 2004: 805-28. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. Karaim, Reed. "Gay Rights." CQ Global Researcher 1 Mar. 2011: 107-32. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. Katel, Peter. "Gays in the Military." CQ Researcher 18 Sept. 2009: 765-88. Web. 13 Nov. 2013.
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Famous children’s author Dr. Seuss once said, “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind". Gay rights, at the moment, are one of the most publicized and well known controversial subjects of this decade. The sides clearly drawn one fighting for rights as simple as being married the other stating that it defames their religion and goes against the definition of marriage, being between a man and a woman. The individuals who are fighting for their civil rights are fallowing the same path that African Americans and women have taken, but the change has started and in over 13 states gays have been given their basic rights and more state are joining in the fight both for and against the topic.
The Gay Rights Movement has brought the idea and acceptance of homosexuals in American Culture a very long way in the last thirty years or so. However, those who accept homosexuality or those who encourage it are still the minority in comparison, and so, there is a long way to go still before homosexuality is considered completely normal and gays are treated just like everyone else. The great uprising of people has already come and gone, and now the movement is in the maintenance stage, where it does not get much media attention anymore. That could be the best way to go for the Movement though, as their goal all along has been to blend in and be treated like everyone else. How better to do that than to not draw attention to one's self.
As the years have passed, homosexuality has become a very controversial topic. The fact that day by day they fight for equality just to be happy, I think it is an injustice that many people refuse to give them the rights they deserve.
Society is created with both homosexual and heterosexual individuals. Previously when certain laws discriminated against others, such as law for women's rights to vote, these laws were changed. Changing the traditions of the country does not mean that it will lead to the legalization of other extreme issues. Each ...
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Overall Homosexuals have it hard in the U.S. but not only here but around the world, some countries or religions kill people if they are gay. What I think about that is that I think it’s very wrong and people do not realize that being gay is very hard, and they can’t be put in their shoes to see how it is. The whole problem is that people of different aspects or view have been discriminated because of what they believe in and what they want to act in. So what I want to say is that homosexuals should have the same equal rights and the same amount of freedom as straight people because in this world it does not matter who, what you are, but it does matter how you contribute to this world and how people make it a better place.
Bell, A.P. and Weinberg, M.S. "Homosexualities: A Study of Human Diversity". New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
There are individuals that live in fear of showing their true identity to the world because they simply fear that society won’t accept them for having a different sexual orientation. Society advocates that individuals should be able to be proud of who they are, but yet they judge homosexuals for being different. People are taught not to judge others based on their race or religion, so why do they still discriminate against homosexuals? The homosexual subculture is not accepted by society, looked down upon, and misjudged; however, they are human beings and deserve to be treated equally.
The treatment of the LGBT community in American Society is a social injustice. What most people think is that they just want to be able to marry one another and be happy but that’s not it. They want to be treated like humans and not some weird creatures that no one has ever seen before. They want to be accepted for who them are and not what people want them to be and they deserve the right to be who they are just the same as any other human being. After all the discrimination they have endured they should be allowed to be who they are and be accepted as equals just like people of different skin color did in the times of segregation. We have a long way to go as a country but being the greatest country in the world in the eyes of many great America will make big steps to make things fair.