Survey Follow Up

I believe that my essential question, being “Should same sex marriage be legalized?” is a great question with lots of different paths to pursue with it. I have decided not to change it at all and to keep on reaching out to society and getting other people’s viewpoint on it. This topic could be very controversial but I am glad for that.  I am open to hearing all opinions and I am ready to see this topic from all points of views, young and old, straight or gay, and even both. 

Data Analysis and Conclusion

I was correct in the fact that people are more open and accepting to the idea of legalizing same sex marriage. I did notice though that the younger the audience the more open they were to such a thing. This elucidates my point that our world is growing and changing with each passing day. The older the audience the less interested they were in the idea of same sex marriage being legal. Looking at the way they answered the other questions though it was more of a lack of acceptance rather than a lack of interest.  People who did not agree with same sex marriage being legalized usually checked off religion as their influence on their opinion. To my astonishment though, a few people, who had in fact stated that they thought it should be legalized, checked off religion as an influence as well. So I’m glad that I can prove that you could be religious and still support the LGBT community. Over all I’m pleased to see the outcome of the surveys. However, being as I live in a southern state where religion, or more specifically Christianity, could be taken very seriously I was not expecting so many people to be open to the idea. I still stand by my original statement that we do not acknowledge the great amount of people that are accepting of the LGBT community and the rights that we should have. I will adjust it though; we truly are failing to see how much support the LGBT community has, just like I have failed to see how much support lays here in this southern society. I think we do this though because of stereo types and society influencing us to automatically label people as worshippers and sinners right away.

Survey Results

Survey Summary

For my survey I asked basic questions to help with the demographics of my data. Basic questions included “Are you a male or female?” and “What is your sexual preference?” My data could have been skewed due to the fact that I was aiming for an open audience of all ages and genders, but I surveyed mostly within the ages 10-18. I also surveyed mostly females. However with the data I did collect I was able to create two graphs. One was showing the resulting answers for the question, “Should same sex marriage be legalized?”  This was organized by whether they were a male or female and then I used a key to distinguish them according to their sexual preference. For my second graph I recorded the answers to the question “Does same sex marriage being illegal deprive the gay community of their rights?” I decide to organize this by whether they were male or female, but then I used a key to differentiate what age range they were in. 

Survey Hypothesis

One could only hope that we were all treated equally. In a perfect world we would be able to marry our soul mate, even if they were the same gender. This is not a perfect world and sadly we cannot marry our soul mate if they are the same gender—at least not in most places. Is it even constitutional to forbid people who are in love from marrying solely because they are the same gender? Love, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is an intense affection for another person based on personal or familial ties. Person meaning a human of any gender, so why limit love? Society is constantly changing and perhaps soon we will reach a common ground where it is okay to love whomever you want. Which leads me to my point that we fail to see how many people are actually approving of same sex marriage.

Gay Marriage Survey

Should same sex marriage be legalized?

Esential Question

Amongst many questions that I have my main question is "Should same sex marriage me legalized?" People may focus on same sex marriage and its effects on the economy, children, and households, but I’m simply focused on whether it should or shouldn’t be legalized. For one second stop thinking about the "money problems" and the bad "environment" same sex marriages could create, that Is If It would create any of that at all. People should just stop and think, “If I fell in love tomorrow and someone told me I could not marry my soul mate how would I feel?” I bet you would be torn to pieces. Would it really harm anyone if a man and a man got married, or a woman and a woman? If you really think so then just out of curiosity, tell me why you think so? In the end we're all humans and we all bleed the same color, breathe the same air, and walk on the same paths. So explain this to me, why can’t I marry a woman if I truly love her?

The story behind my blog!

In February of 2009 I came out to my mother and ever since then I have been very open about the fact that I am bisexual. I've been called plenty of names; people call me disgusting and tell me I am a sinner. I was once pushed out of my seat on the school bus by a boy; he said "You're disgusting get away from me". He pushed me right out of my seat and told me I was contagious. It is said that God claims you should not to judge. Yet it is also said that anyone who cares intimately for someone of the same gender is going to hell. People use this as a reason to void out certain people, is that not then sinning? That means that every time you judge someone who has "sinned" you've sinned yourself. The world around us is changing and people don't notice that the things they say make them sound ignorant. If so many people hate me and say horrible things to me why would I choose to be bisexual? I was born on June 7th 1996 and I have been the same Vicky from the start. Whether anyone likes it or not this is who I am and I am here to show everyone that we don’t choose to be hated. A simple request from the LGBT community is that we just be treated equally. One way to do this is to give us the same rights, such as marriage rights. I should be able to marry whomever I want if I truly love them just like any other person would be able to. So tell me would you rather me marry a female or murder someone? I think same sex marriage shouldn’t have laws against it just like homicide does. We aren’t hurting anyone or the society.