Love is Love?

In a close five to four Supreme Court ruling vote on June 26th, 2015,
same-sex couples gained the right to marry in all fifty states (Kenneth, �Gay
Rights�). As this news spread, some were displeased, some were overjoyed, and some
were somewhere in the middle. The wide range of views on this topic made it easy to
be turned into a satire. A comic by Cartoon Arts International shows a man
complaining to his wife that same-sex marriage is hurting heterosexual marriage, in
which the wife retaliates and makes a comment about divorcing him because of his
stated opinion (Kurtzman). It is ironic that the woman talks about destroying their
heterosexual marriage because she didn�t like what her husband said, and the
husband claims that heterosexual marriages are being hurt because of homosexual
marriage. The reasoning behind the comic is to persuade the reader to agree with
the point of view it representsp, or to believe that homosexual marriage has no
effect on heterosexual marriages, and to do so in a comedic way to lighten the
tension of the multitude of views on the topic of gay marriage. Although this
satire and many others are mainly made to persuade an audience to one binary
viewpoint of an issue, there are many other viewpoints outside of the two binaries.