Sarah Wisniewski
Ms. Schlossberg
English II Honors, Period 5
20 January 2017
The Fight for Adoption: DeBoer v. Snyder Through the history of the United States, with an unfortunate pattern, discrimination has been a part of the progress and obstacles overcome for issues including race, gender, sexual orientation and more. In the cases of DeBoer v. Snyder and Obergefell v. Hodges, discrimination came in the form of a lack of basic rights for people of the homosexual identity. In both cases, marriage was the basic right not being offered to those in same-sex relationships. As America has become accustomed, a battle began for the rights of the discriminated. Two smaller cases were brought to the Supreme Court in an epic duel for what was believed …show more content…
Snyder and Obergefell v. Hodges were Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage that changed the rights and ideas of Americans nationwide. Society during these cases was changing and popularity for the side of same-sex marriage was constantly being altered. DeBoer v. Snyder began in 2012 while Obergefell v. Hodges started in 2013. In 2012, a general poll presented that only 48% of Americans supported gay marriage and in 2013 the support for legalizing same-sex marriage only increased by 2% (“Changing Attitudes on Gay Marriage n.p.). Millennials were the most supportive generation in the time of the cases and the older generations were the least supportive. As still seen today, people who identified as more religious or attending services more often were less supportive than those who did not identify with a religion or …show more content…
The overlying reason for the rejection of all arguments came from the belief that states had the right and power to individually rule on domestic relationships (Cooney n.p.). The rejection was then continued to be explained by means of an analysis of the Constitution in which it is nowhere to be found a need for extended marriage rights. Following the statement of the lack of having to extend rights, was the idea that if states wished to extend the rights to same-sex couples, they had the power to do so. The court then spoke of the traditional belief that marriage is between man and woman and that belief was then reinforced. The Sixth Circuit began to then deny all rulings of the lower courts grounded on federalism principles (n.p.). The Sixth Circuit held that none of the plaintiffs’ arguments for “the case for constitutionalizing the definition of marriage” and “removing the issue from… the hands of the state voters” were strong enough or backed by enough reason for change (qtd in Cooney n.p.). Respectively it was said that although the extension of rights may be fundamentally important, it does not call for it to be a fundamental right within governmental documents. The final means for rejection were the ideas for each generation to govern themselves, further saying that these evolving ideas are too early to make decision on (n.p.). All in
Ms. Schlossberg
English II Honors, Period 5
20 January 2017
The Fight for Adoption: DeBoer v. Snyder Through the history of the United States, with an unfortunate pattern, discrimination has been a part of the progress and obstacles overcome for issues including race, gender, sexual orientation and more. In the cases of DeBoer v. Snyder and Obergefell v. Hodges, discrimination came in the form of a lack of basic rights for people of the homosexual identity. In both cases, marriage was the basic right not being offered to those in same-sex relationships. As America has become accustomed, a battle began for the rights of the discriminated. Two smaller cases were brought to the Supreme Court in an epic duel for what was believed …show more content…
Snyder and Obergefell v. Hodges were Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage that changed the rights and ideas of Americans nationwide. Society during these cases was changing and popularity for the side of same-sex marriage was constantly being altered. DeBoer v. Snyder began in 2012 while Obergefell v. Hodges started in 2013. In 2012, a general poll presented that only 48% of Americans supported gay marriage and in 2013 the support for legalizing same-sex marriage only increased by 2% (“Changing Attitudes on Gay Marriage n.p.). Millennials were the most supportive generation in the time of the cases and the older generations were the least supportive. As still seen today, people who identified as more religious or attending services more often were less supportive than those who did not identify with a religion or …show more content…
The overlying reason for the rejection of all arguments came from the belief that states had the right and power to individually rule on domestic relationships (Cooney n.p.). The rejection was then continued to be explained by means of an analysis of the Constitution in which it is nowhere to be found a need for extended marriage rights. Following the statement of the lack of having to extend rights, was the idea that if states wished to extend the rights to same-sex couples, they had the power to do so. The court then spoke of the traditional belief that marriage is between man and woman and that belief was then reinforced. The Sixth Circuit began to then deny all rulings of the lower courts grounded on federalism principles (n.p.). The Sixth Circuit held that none of the plaintiffs’ arguments for “the case for constitutionalizing the definition of marriage” and “removing the issue from… the hands of the state voters” were strong enough or backed by enough reason for change (qtd in Cooney n.p.). Respectively it was said that although the extension of rights may be fundamentally important, it does not call for it to be a fundamental right within governmental documents. The final means for rejection were the ideas for each generation to govern themselves, further saying that these evolving ideas are too early to make decision on (n.p.). All in