People are always making fun of gay people. The current culture tells students that being gay is funny and abnormal, but this is not true. Nobody understands what being gay is like unless they have gay family members or friends, who are close to them. Mackie has a close friend, Marissa, who is gay. It changed her perspective. Mackie used to think that gay people were abnormal, now that her very close friend has came out to her, her whole mindset has changed. Mackie wants to tell her other friends that Marissa is gay but she is too nervous. People should not be afraid to come out and tell people but with today's world who can blame them? Mackie finally decided to come out and tell her friends that Marissa is gay when she told them everyone was
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It is cruelly ironic that judicial decisions in the United States denying the right to same-sex marriage cite the welfare of children, yet those very decisions harm the welfare of the estimated 1 million children currently being raised by gay and lesbian couples (Blechner PG). Research shows that the law is making it difficult for same-sex families to get married which makes having welfare harder for families. Without welfare it makes raising children difficult. So if the law were to change and make marriage easier for same-sex families then children would have reasonable welfare and not have to worry about anything. As adults, most gay and lesbian people come to realize that they are as equipped as heterosexuals, emotionally and psychologically, to form lasting and meaningful relationships. Yet not being allowed to marry robs them of many kinds of security and support (Blechner PG). As research shows there are ways being denied these 1138 rights can cause hardship for gay and lesbian couples (Blechner PG). The federal Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that defines marriage for federal purposes as only between a man and a woman. There were fewer references to the children of same-sex parents in that case (Walsh). This is what is affecting the children and there are lots of same-sex couples who have and are living with children, and so far they are living and growing up in safe
It is cruelly ironic that judicial decisions in the United States denying the right to same-sex marriage cite the welfare of children, yet those very decisions harm the welfare of the estimated 1 million children currently being raised by gay and lesbian couples (Blechner PG). Research shows that the law is making it difficult for same-sex families to get married which makes having welfare harder for families. Without welfare it makes raising children difficult. So if the law were to change and make marriage easier for same-sex families then children would have reasonable welfare and not have to worry about anything. As adults, most gay and lesbian people come to realize that they are as equipped as heterosexuals, emotionally and psychologically, to form lasting and meaningful relationships. Yet not being allowed to marry robs them of many kinds of security and support (Blechner PG). As research shows there are ways being denied these 1138 rights can cause hardship for gay and lesbian couples (Blechner PG). The federal Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that defines marriage for federal purposes as only between a man and a woman. There were fewer references to the children of same-sex parents in that case (Walsh). This is what is affecting the children and there are lots of same-sex couples who have and are living with children, and so far they are living and growing up in safe