Gay Rights
Gina
Gay Rights The battle for gay rights is the number one most arguable topic in America today. Dating back to 1924 when the first known gay rights organization, The Society for Human Rights was formed in Chicago (“The American’s Gay Rights Movement: Timeline”); it is evident that this battle has been long and seemingly endless, with only small amounts of beneficial outcomes. Yet as the newer ages approach it becomes evident that there is a change happening. The country is growing and beginning to accept same-sex relationships and give rights to the couple of a single gender. Yet the struggle that lies before the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people, also known as LGBT, is the acceptance in all of society today. The gay community has fallen in society as a lower respected group. Looked down upon for being different and making many heterosexual often “disgusted” by the homosexual lifestyle. Gays are now adding to the growing list of people who were looked down in America for being different from society, and now they are finally standing up for themselves. Before the fight for gay rights it was the fight for African-American civil rights, and before that the Women’s Rights movement. This social inequality against homosexuality is very evident from the most obvious issue at hand, gay marriage. Many look down upon same sex marriage, for the unethical idea that marriage is for two people of opposite genders, too be able to successfully raise a child because gay partners are incapable of producing a child. Yet the argument comes in when whether a gay couple could successfully raise a child, who was adopted or artificially inseminated, and have successful working family.
“The proclivity to raise children is neither automatic among mixed-gender couples nor off-limits to same-sex couples. The 2000 U.S. Census showed that in California, half of married couples and one-third of gay couples are raising children. (The latter figure is 28% if limited to one's
Gay Rights The battle for gay rights is the number one most arguable topic in America today. Dating back to 1924 when the first known gay rights organization, The Society for Human Rights was formed in Chicago (“The American’s Gay Rights Movement: Timeline”); it is evident that this battle has been long and seemingly endless, with only small amounts of beneficial outcomes. Yet as the newer ages approach it becomes evident that there is a change happening. The country is growing and beginning to accept same-sex relationships and give rights to the couple of a single gender. Yet the struggle that lies before the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people, also known as LGBT, is the acceptance in all of society today. The gay community has fallen in society as a lower respected group. Looked down upon for being different and making many heterosexual often “disgusted” by the homosexual lifestyle. Gays are now adding to the growing list of people who were looked down in America for being different from society, and now they are finally standing up for themselves. Before the fight for gay rights it was the fight for African-American civil rights, and before that the Women’s Rights movement. This social inequality against homosexuality is very evident from the most obvious issue at hand, gay marriage. Many look down upon same sex marriage, for the unethical idea that marriage is for two people of opposite genders, too be able to successfully raise a child because gay partners are incapable of producing a child. Yet the argument comes in when whether a gay couple could successfully raise a child, who was adopted or artificially inseminated, and have successful working family.
“The proclivity to raise children is neither automatic among mixed-gender couples nor off-limits to same-sex couples. The 2000 U.S. Census showed that in California, half of married couples and one-third of gay couples are raising children. (The latter figure is 28% if limited to one's