If two people are in a committed relationship, they should be guaranteed the right to live happily together. Why should two men or two women be deprived of this right, when they have the same rights as any other human being? Who is to say that because two people in love is seen as “unconventional” they should be deprived of our basic human rights? When two people love each other, whether gay or straight, black or white, people should be allowed to celebrate their commitment to each other in an official fashion; through marriage. No one person should be allowed to define what love is and who and whom we cannot love; as we have heard before “love is blind.”
We are a country based on the principal of freedom and justice for all. By limiting people because of their sexual orientation we are going against everything we as a country pride ourselves on. Homosexuality is not a choice; it is genetic, which means that homosexuals are born attracted to the same sex, as opposed to suddenly becoming attracted to the same sex. Being gay is part of that person’s core identity; it goes right to the very center of one’s being.
It has been proven that gay couples are more likely to remain together than a straight couple, yet we deprive gay couples of the right to marriage because marriage is defined as “between a man and a woman.” All homosexual breath, eats and talks just like every heterosexual, yet we treat them as a different “species.” Everyone is equal, yet we all share different beliefs and that is what makes our country so unique. Rather than shun the idea of gay marriage and homosexuality, we should embrace their bravado and desire to be together despite the judging eyes of the public.
The media has one of the largest impacts on society today because it forms and influences our social conditions. It sets a precedent for how people are “supposed” to dress, behave and look. We are all exposed to the media through magazines, television, internet, and radio. We reinforce our own behavior by identifying with roles and values presented in the media, which has been detremental to society in many ways. Media has had a large affect on young children, because they are exposed to it at such a young age which gives our youth a model in which they should follow. Young girls see these thin models on the television and in magazines and believe that to be beautiful they must look a certain way. Young boys become so englufed in the world of video games which exposes them to violence in a positive way. They then grow up to become much more violent in nature and feel that is is an innevitable aspect of human life. As for teenagers, we are exposed to sex, violence, drugs and alcohol in the media, which makes this type of behavior more common and acceptable as we begin to form into the person will we become.
People have become much less concerned with the tragedies in thrid world countries and politics and much more concerned with who is dating whom in the hollywood gossip magazines. The media has caused scoiety to lose touch with what is truly important in our lives; the state of our country. When girls see a celebrity wearing designer clothes on the tevelvsion or in print media we want to replicate that image because it is “in.” But what we are not seeing is how the media takes away from individuality. It has caused the public to conform to a particular image of how things should be, rather than for what they are.
One example of how the media has effected its audience, is the recent bombings in India. This act of terrorism was barely covered in the media. The attacks on India do have an affect on the United States, just as the attacks on September 11th had effected the world. Yet we barely see coverage of what is happening around the world, instead we are recieveing coverage onalskdj. As for the politics we have become more concerned with what clothes Sarah Pallin is dressing in rather than the content of her vice presidency.
The media has caused our society to become striftly money driven. We see people driving nice cars and wearing expensive clothes, which causes people to portray an image of wealth in an effort to gain respect and admiration. However what we have become blind to is the many problems outside of what the media is covering. We have lost touch with reality due to the media. We have become so comsumed with material worth that as a society we have accepted this as the norm. The media is a force which dictates what we deem as important within society.
