Gay_Mariage_In_The_US

Gay Mariage In The US A Look at Gay Marriage in the United States The American government, founded on the ideals of men wishing to escape persecution and tyranny, is a secular institution shaped by the Constitution and it’s Amendments. Over the two hundred plus years that America has been a country many infractions, oversights and misinterpretations have occurred which have unfairly inhibited the freedom of the American people. This truth can be seen in the continued refusal by the government as a whole to accept, legalize or recognize same sex marriages, which has led to unrest and dissention among the homosexual community and its supporters. This was an issue that was brought up in Dan Savage’s, The Kid. Same sex marriage, although a recent “hot topic,” is neither new, nor an unnatural product of the twentieth century, as many claim. Evidence of social acceptance of gay marriage can be found in Egyptian culture as far back as 2600 B.C., as well as in ancient Rome and medieval Europe. (Eskridge 17) More recent evidence of gay marriages has been found in colonial America, as well as during the twentieth century in East Coast communities such as Boston and Harlem. During both world wars, official marriage certificates marriage, rights, sex, same, law, state, homosexuals, gay, sullivan, court, american, marriages, people, one, amendment, supreme, states, shall, ruling, movement, couples, constitution, civil, certain, america, whole, nor, marry, legal, homosexual, hawaii, eskridge, due, denying, denied