Gay marriages
Gay Marriages Is America ready for same sex marriages? Gay right advocates say gay and lesbian couples need and deserve the same symbolic and practical benefits for their relationships enjoyed by heterosexuals. Social conservitives say same sex marriages will hurt traditional families at a time when marriage is already suffering from divorce and other social trends. ... An energized gay liberation movment started in the late sixties after a pollice raid on a popular New York gay bar . The first decision by a supreme court to deny marriage licenses to gay couples happened in the seventies. The eighties brought around a much more public fight for gay rights. The first national gay-and-lesbian civil rights march attracted 100. ... In the ninties case after case was rejected by the supreme courts for gay marriage licenses. ... Massachusettes will be the first state to legalize gay marriage which will in effectMarch 17, 2004.