Final Paper
FYS 6 Paper #3: Gender & Sexuality, Law & Marriage (1541 Words) Recently, I posited in a blogpost located here that the SCOTUS ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, that the right for same-sex couples to be married under the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples is guaranteed by the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protections Clause of the 14th Amendment (Kennedy 2015), was the most important advancement in LGBTQ+ rights in the past fifteen years at the time of writing. I chose this event based on an observation that marriage is a core value of the idealized typical American family. Borrowing a term from feminist philosopher Audre Lorde, the “mythical norm” (the set of identities considered to hold the most power and privilege in a society (Lorde pg. 855, 1984)) in terms of a family would consist of a man and woman who are, heterosexual, cisgender, White, Christian, young, financially secure, have children together, and are married . I chose this event believin
