Homesexuality and Same Sex Marriages - Essay Example

 In the year 2002, the Mychal judge act allowed the federal government to pay same-sex partners death benefits to law enforcers and firefighters in the event that they lost their lives in the line of duty.

Later on in the year 2006, the pension protection act gave protection to same-sex couples and workers who choose to leave their retirement benefits to people who were not their spouses. As of September 2014, only 9 states have outlawed same-sex marriages and another 10 states are awaiting court decisions. The other states (majority) have legalized gay marriages. Homosexuality was some time back branded as sexual deviancy. Sexual deviancy in this case is used to describe something abnormal.

Hence homosexuality was branded as something abnormal and against the norms of society. This is, however, not the case anymore. As of the year 1960, homosexuality was illegal in all American states. This has changed with time as only today 9 states have completely outlawed homosexuality.