I have decided to do a map of 'The State of Same-Sex Marriage' within the USA. Given what has happened in Orlando with the shootings at Pulse Nightclub, I felt this would be a great way too see how America has contrasted with their founding ideals of 'freedom'.
As you can see, in 2014, majority of America had a ban on same sex marriage. We could use this to challenge the principle of America, do people really have freedom? A lot of the states have been legalised since this date with a lot more areas of the map above becoming blue, such as Arizona and Nevada (excluding the map above which shows them to have challenged the ban).
This act was passed in 2015 when the States Supreme Court ruled that the ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. This was a very long process that started with none of the states allowing any form of gay marriage or partnership however, it was Utah that was the first state to do something abut this by enacting a Defence of Marriage Act in 1995 which several other states having previously defining marriage between a man and woman. California was also apart of this.
What makes it so ironic that California was one of the states hat defined marriage to be between man and woman is that currently in 2016, California is one of the states that have a vast majority of the LGBT population, with New York being the first.
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