Homosexuality Tolerance

Homosexuality Tolerance in the U.S.:

The 6 Common Viewpoints and Medical Pathology Perspective

I decided to do my research on the topic of homosexual tolerance in the U.S. This issue is continually being forced upon us in our society, whether the direction is coming from politics, educational institutions, religion, news media or the entertainment industry. There are forces on both sides of the issue, with an agenda, that are continually brought to the forefront daily. The main aspect of tolerance that is being wrestled with in the U.S. is whether homosexuals should be given equal rights when it comes to the definition of marriage in our country. The homosexual tolerance movement is also trying to be held up as the new civil rights movement. In my research on the topic I have attempted to look at this subject from several different positions. I have learned that there is generally six different viewpoints, of which, most everybody’s view on homosexuality fall into. I also thought it was most imperative to bring in the medical perspective, as this issue has deep inroads in medical science.

Before we go further into the research on homosexuality, we must first define what homosexual means. Upon doing my research on homosexuality, I discovered that it is a gray area on when to classify someone as a homosexual. Does having sexual thoughts about a person of the same sex, or having homosexual sex with the same gender make a person a homosexual? For the sake of this research, I am going to use the definition listed on the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary (www.m-w.com):

Homosexuality: 1: the quality or state of being homosexual 2: erotic activity with another of the same sex.

The topic of homosexuality is nothing new under the sun. It has probably always been there since homosaphiens have walked this Earth. The homosexual lifestyle for the most part, has been looked down upon during history. Here in the U.S. it never was really acceptable,