Our PSA's and Week 2 Blog

This week, we created our two PSA’s about supporting same-sex marriage. The first plays off the accurate metaphor that the push for homosexual equality mirrors that of the civil rights movement, and the issues of the civil war itself. Although we didn’t use any stats, the video was meant to introduce our stance and create some hype for our cause. The second video disputes greatly some of the fables surrounding gay marriage. First of all we showed how it is legal in more states to marry your own first cousin, then it is to marry someone of the same sex. People believe that same-sex marriage is wrong, but would they consider marrying your first cousin ok? If that is acceptable, what makes homosexuals so “wrong”? Next we tackled the idea that the debate against gay marriage is not fueled by religion. We showed that not only is the highest acceptance with those who do not identify with any religion, but that religions like Christianity and Islam have some of the lowest acceptance. We then took on the argument that gay marriages will; lead to heterosexual divorce increasing. This is clearly false, as gay marriage is more common today than ever and the heterosexual divorce rate has remained constant and even decreased a little. We got a lot of the information that followed from www. gaymarriage.lifetips.com. There was an instance in San Francisco, where they legalized gay marriage. Soon after nearly 4,000 gay couples were married there, in the resulting rush to take advantage of the opportunity. The State (California) intervened in the marriages and had them all voided. The resulting Supreme Court case ended in defeat for San Francisco. It’s this kind of injustice that we wanted to bring to light. How can it be just in any sense of the word to not only not allow a marriage, but strip someone of their married status? It’s disgusting really. The website makes another point that divorce rates have clearly been on the decline since 1980, when they were as high as 80% within the first decade of marriage. Now these numbers have gone down to as much as 30% by 2002. That’s quite a drop, one that does nothing to explain how the increased support of gay marriage is “ruining marriage” for heterosexual couples. It just goes to show how these myths about gay marriage are surrounded by more speculation and fear, then any actual evidence.

-source used- http://gaymarriage.lifetips.com/cat/64319/gay-marriage-facts-statistics/index.html