The Global View Of Gay Marriage

Title: The Global View Of Gay Marriage

Summary:
This article written by Bootie Cosgrove-Mather and published on March 4, 2004 on the CBS News website, explains the views on same sex marriage throughout much of the world. In some countries there aren't any same sex couples becuase it's illegal, and in others there aren't same sex marriages becuase they believe that love is love and marriage is marriage. Nowadays more and more countries are allowing same sex couples and same sex marriages, realizing that it isn't all that big of a deal, for example, In Denmark same sex marriages have been legal since 1989 and Nordic countries since the 1990's.


Reflection:
I thought it was very interesting to learn that the world seems so split on the idea of same sex couples. There were many surprising statistics littered throughout the peice, it taught me quite a bit. Although it was published in 2004 and some of the information was most likely outdated, it was helpful to me.


Evidence:

*"In Denmark, civil unions with the same rights as marriage have been around since 1989, and other Nordic countries followed suit in the 1990s."
*"In Japan, homosexuality is no longer considered a mental illness, but many gays still feel pressure to go through a sham heterosexual marriage. Japan is more progressive than most of Asia."
*"In contrast to Amsterdam's boisterous gay clubs and the spring rite of the Gay Pride parade through its famed canals, Faasen and Thus, the Dutch lesbian couple, live a quiet middle-class life in a neat apartment on the city's outskirts. They hardly seem like revolutionaries, or even trendsetters."


Questions:

* What makes certain countries so open to the ideas, and others so very opposed?



Source:
Cosgrove-Mather , Bootie. "The Global View Of Gay Marriage". CBS News. 2 Feb. 2010 .