Essay On Culture Wars

How prominent are the culture wars, and how do they affect our society? Abraham Lincoln said in 1857, “A house divided against itself can not stand.” When he said this, he was talking about the dispute of slavery in the United States. The north was on the side of no slaves and the south was on the side of pro slaves. Lincoln said, “Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and put it in course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawfull in all the states, old, as well as new.” Basically what Lincoln was saying is that the people of the US have to pick one side and act on it (“House Divided”). This was one of the most important culture wars back in the 1800s. Neither side could compromise and there ended up being an actual war, the Civil War. Long story short, the north won and owning slaves became illegal when the 13th amendment was passed in 1865 (“13th”). The culture war on slavery tore the nation apart. In total, there were about 620,000 American casualties, which are about 200,000 more American casualties than World War II and taking the lead as the most casualties in an American war. That is over 600,000 American deaths over a dispute that got out of hand (“Civil War”). That …show more content…
There are many disputes over wither gay and lesbian couples should have the right to get married. The individuals that are pro-gay marriage say that people should be in love with whomever they want, but anti-gay marriage people argue that it is agents what the Bible says. They use the freedom of religion as their excuse to bash on gay marriage. Another reason people might hate on gay marriage is that they could not have any children and in their mind, marriage is for producing offspring, which could be argued agents; same sex couples can get married and do not want any children, or they cannot have children and senior citizen couples cannot have children