Gay Marriage PHI 200 Gay Marriage Gay marriage is something that’s between two people who are of the same sex. Most people don’t accept this type of situation because they feel that it is completely wrong. Some people rather that people be happy no matter who they are with, male or female. When it comes to a person who starts off being gay, usually it because of a past event that happened in the past or just that most people have those certain types of feelings or desires towards a person of the same sex. One cannot say why this has happened or one cannot say it’s a disease of some sort.
(Rathus, Nevid & Fichner-Rathus, 2005) Historical and scientific viewpoints are greatly significant in the way that gay persons distinguish themselves today and how the development of gay communities have grown and changed. For example, looking at the historical standpoint, many of the male Greeks seen exploring their curiosity of interacting sexually with a member of the same sex, as totally normal and natural. However, the Christian Church did not agree with this view. They viewed it as a sin and un-natural. They also believed that a gay person is committing a sin and would burn in hell for having a sexual experience with a person of the same sex.
Everyone made fun of him except for his best friend named Rowdy. Rowdy protected Junior, and they had a bond that most people never find in life. When Junior decided to go to a high school off the rez, Rowdy was not for it, and their friendship was broken after Junior left the high school on the rez. When Junior first started out at Reardon, he was not physically being beat up, but the kids there used their words for weapons. He was bullied at both places.
Most of these people were of higher ranks and possessed extraordinary language skills (Homosexual Separations from Military Service 128). The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is restricting those people in the armed services who have different sexual orientations which causes the service to lose many talented people. This shows that every soldier in the military, no matter what sexual preference, is needed and performs a specific specialized job. President Obama promised to welcome gays into the military while many civilian groups show support for homosexuals. Because of the attitude change, “ the shift might seem natural”(Ephron 46).
As a youth Ted was terribly shy to the public and in school, he was often teased by his fellow student in his junior high school. All this change all of a sudden during his high school years he became popular and was known as well dress and exceptionally well manner. he finish school and went off to collage at a university in Washington. He was very focused on his grades and studies. Yet his focus changed during the spring of 1967 when he began a relationship that would forever change his life.
This reading was about the viewpoints of heterosexuals who feel and question if homosexuality should be eliminated. Many do not feel that this is a way of life, and this reading proved the viewpoints of many who see homosexuality as a disease, immoral, lecherous, or anti-social. Even though those who do not agree or approve with homosexuality, they stand it. Throughout this reading, it talks about how society deals with homosexuality, trying to cure it when, really, society is just making it worse. Society makes it clear their disapproval of homosexuality, but tries to punish it in a way that does not begin to “cure” it at all.
He explains the fear he felt when he heard the term since he was homosexual himself. He felt threatened and targeted immediately upon hearing this word. In time he realized the teenagers using the word did not even notice his existence. It was then Jonathan realized that it is not the prejudice words that are dangerous; it is the violence the stereotyped to represent. Jonathan explains that the time and energy wasted on sorting out these various contexts and then trying to eliminate the words takes away from actually eliminating physical violence and criminals.
However, it is not a normal school day but Saturday detention. Most of five students come to school with their parents. Unlike the other four students, Bender walks to school alone and careless about whatever happens in front of him. He doesn’t care to avoid the car driven by Alison’s parent coming. Brian Johnson, is as normal as every students are, is dropped off by his mother and his little sister.
Why do gays travel to such extremities to live in a society where they live in denial about their sexuality? Angels in America, a play by Tony Kushner, represents the the crude awakening of the reality homosexuals had to face. This play not only represents the deteriorating disease of AIDS, but it is also a dramatic play that critically gives an answer to thousands of Americans who lived a cruel reality. A reality in which they questioned the difficulty in living in a society that particularity objected to the views of homosexuality. Kushner displays his views towards two characters who struggle facing inner anguish and public torment.
The concept of sexuality is very complex; however, society often looks at it in a very simplistic way. For centuries homosexuality has been a taboo topic, especially because of the lack of information on it. Society has expressed that homosexuality was unnatural and in the mid-1900s the DSM categorized homosexuals as having a psychological condition. The DSM, an abbreviation for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, regarding homosexuality, has attracted controversy and criticism over the years and people who belong to the LGB community have been ridiculed against for something that doesn’t fully relate to them. Homosexuality is not a psychological condition; with research disproving this prior theory, many actions have been