One of the most influential events that happened in modern American culture is definitely the legislation of allowing same sex marriage. This decision has created a ripple effect; people who support same sex marriage are celebrating joyfully on the street, where people who disagree are protesting furiously hoping the Supreme Court take back the decision. This decision has not only impact hardly on modern American culture, but also raise the awareness of same sex sexual preference people all around the world. Interesting enough, a proportion of the LGBT community opposes same-sex marriage, and an even larger proportion is skeptical towards the legalization of same sex marriage. So who benefits from this decision? The answer is the society
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This article he supports the same sex marriage. In my opinion, a lot of people who share the same view as he had because of the fear of changes made on traditional values. The fundamental human nature is afraid of change. “Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Human are afraid of what they don’t know. Once same sex marriage is legal, people are more accepting. A lot of people start supporting same sex marriage; it even activates a global event, which is the Facebook Celebrate Pride page. This page allows users to change their Facebook profile picture to have a rainbow overlay as to support “All people are equal”. According to washingtonpost.com, there are more than 26 million people who supported the movement and changed their Facebook profile picture to rainbow color. This is relative to 8% of the US population. This movement unified 8% of the Unites States to stand for the same belief. This can make the society as whole more stronger bond together and hence improve the sense of belonging of individuals towards the society, both straight and same-sex preferred …show more content…
People used to look down on people with same sex preference, and this causes a hierarchy where straight people are “better” than LGBT community because they cannot marry the people they loved. This causes them to have a lower self esteem and tries to hide their sexual orientation. So, the law being passed helps to give them an equal identity to the straight people. The second part of improving one’s identity is that some people from the LGBT community consider marriage as their final goal in relationship, which is the same as the straight people. This is based on an interview I had with one of my friend. He mentioned that to him it is definitely a positive thing, as he can finally consider marriage as the ending goal in his relationship. This can add up to their identity, as now they can have the relationship moving from single to in a relationship to engaged and to married. Not like before where they have to stop in “in a
This article he supports the same sex marriage. In my opinion, a lot of people who share the same view as he had because of the fear of changes made on traditional values. The fundamental human nature is afraid of change. “Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Human are afraid of what they don’t know. Once same sex marriage is legal, people are more accepting. A lot of people start supporting same sex marriage; it even activates a global event, which is the Facebook Celebrate Pride page. This page allows users to change their Facebook profile picture to have a rainbow overlay as to support “All people are equal”. According to washingtonpost.com, there are more than 26 million people who supported the movement and changed their Facebook profile picture to rainbow color. This is relative to 8% of the US population. This movement unified 8% of the Unites States to stand for the same belief. This can make the society as whole more stronger bond together and hence improve the sense of belonging of individuals towards the society, both straight and same-sex preferred …show more content…
People used to look down on people with same sex preference, and this causes a hierarchy where straight people are “better” than LGBT community because they cannot marry the people they loved. This causes them to have a lower self esteem and tries to hide their sexual orientation. So, the law being passed helps to give them an equal identity to the straight people. The second part of improving one’s identity is that some people from the LGBT community consider marriage as their final goal in relationship, which is the same as the straight people. This is based on an interview I had with one of my friend. He mentioned that to him it is definitely a positive thing, as he can finally consider marriage as the ending goal in his relationship. This can add up to their identity, as now they can have the relationship moving from single to in a relationship to engaged and to married. Not like before where they have to stop in “in a