America is known as the land of the free, where speech and action can be done without restriction (to an extent) by the power of our constitutional amendments. Speech and action has been actively exercised and has evolved from the 60's to now on one of America's most talked about issue today: Gay marriages. It has elevated into being a large topic of debate and discussion amongst political leaders/common parties, and as much as America says its "for equal rights" and what not, it really never truly is.
             The generation of youths is a little luckier, in lights of being "out of the closet" for it is socially accepted (less so tolerated) compared to a few decades ago, where it would be shunned upon. A poll, created by ABC news on the internet, showed that 61% of American people don't "accept" gays in society, but tolerate them. It seems like America has fallen into another recession of whites vs. blacks, but instead its gays vs. America-ignorance being a large factor. But unlike then, we've come to be a little more civilized about it (Ironically, ABC news had another poll where Gay marriages were the number 1 debatable topic.) Take President Bush for example. Once every gay/lesbian couple flocked to San Francisco to get married (and the most recent state, Massachusetts to join the legalization of gay marriages), he started proposing constitutional amendments (is in the process of it) and if it hadn't passed congress, he would have been the first President to alter the constitution. With that, and all those (not all) religious reform movements and anti-gay marriage individuals got involved, making gay marriages turned into the issue of the year, and quite possibly the top issue of presidential elections.
             Gay marriage may be a situation in which marriage's legal consequences are disadvantageous for the couple and the family. Getting married may disqualify the couple from cer
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