It has been said many times that one peculiar idiosyncrasy of Western culture, in particular the American People, is the uncanny trend of people always being the champion of those they perceive to be underdogs.
People in the West, and again most notably Americans, will almost always side with and take up for those they perceive to be oppressed.
Why do you think that activists in the so called identity groups always immediately scream that they–or those they proclaim to be allies of–are oppressed peoples?
In the years preceding the OBERGEFELL v. HODGES ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States there was wide spread protests and lobbying of state legislators by citizens to mandate that marriage was only to be allowed between one man and one woman, due largely to Gays and Lesbians demanding the right to marry someone of the same sex. There were many states in which voters passed constitutional amendments to enshrine traditional marriage and the US Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on September 21, 1996.
Interestingly enough, while a majority of Americans had previously supported traditional marriage, by the time of Obergefell the tides had turned and a significant number of people, seemingly adopted a sort of laissez faire position or more literally, let those people do as they choose attitude.
As a result, each June during the so called Pride month, the month when GLBT Continue reading
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