Same Sex Marraiges Research Paper

As social workers, we fight for equality for those currently being oppresed by society views and norms. When looking at the controversy surrounding same sex marraiges, it is recongized by teh federal goverment and has been legalized in 37 States in the United Sates including the District of Columbai and 22 Native Amerian tribal juridisctions. It appears that a person's marital status is dtermined by the State that said person or couples reside in.
It is the responsibilty of all social workers to advocate for social justice for our clients. When we are born, we all are aforded rights, so we need to help our clientsor join in the fight of helping them reclaim rights that are preventing them from becoming their most capable self. Prior to 2004, same sex-marraige was not performed in any U.S jurisdictions beign the idea of members of the same sex joining together in the hand of marraige as

There are currently three components to the legalization of same sex marraiges. The first includes the liscensing of same sex marriages, the second is the recognizing the legal validity of those liscense and third, the recognition of same sex marraiges from other juridistions.
As stated before, there are 37 States that recognize the validy of marital liscense of same sex couples but there is still work to be done becus there are still 12 states and two territories that prohibit the liscensing and/or do not recongizie the lsicense of same sex coupples.
The controversy surronding the movement to legalize same sex marraiges started in 1970 throught the court decision of Baehr v Lewin which delcared that States refusal to honor same sex mirraiges to be unconstitutional. That was the turning point and because of the hard work and dedication, support for smae sex marraiges have grown and the majority of American now supports it