American society faces many forms of discrimination on a daily basis. There is age discrimination whereby a minor cannot purchase alcoholic beverages or tobacco products. There is also racial discrimination when a young black person is refused employment in a union even though it is illegal. There is also another form of discrimination based on sex: a woman is paid less than a man for the same work. However, a particularly unfair form is sexual discrimination: a same-sex couple cannot marry like a heterosexual couple. Gradually, this form of discrimination became illegal, which caused much controversy. Although there is debate about it, same-sex marriage should be legalized because it deserves the same rights as heterosexual marriages. The idea of ​​same-sex marriage originated during a trial in the early 1970s in Wyoming. (Hull 7) After this, you could say the gay rights movement began, but it wasn't until the 1990s that same-sex marriage really became a focal point of the movement. (Olson, Cadge, Harrison 341) At this time, gay rights were becoming increasingly important due to the epidemic of the HIV/AIDS virus, and many gay men were being blamed for this epidemic. There was a myth at the time that the HIV virus was only for gay men, but this myth was proven false when a young child contracted the HIV virus. Then many people began to assume that same-sex marriage would eventually lead to other unethical relationships and to want to accept and legalize such polyamory and bestiality. Yet people have forgotten how much same-sex marriage will affect America's children and youth. From the beginning, marriage has been a right to legalization and equality. that of heterosexual marriage. Works Cited Meezan, William and Jonathan Rauch. “Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Parenting, and America’s Children.” Children's Futures 15.2 (2005): 97-113. Kurtz, Stanley. “Beyond same-sex marriage.” The Weekly Standard 8.45 (2003): 26-33. Cherlin, Andrew J. “The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage.” Journal of Marriage and Family 66.4 (2004): 848-861. Polikoff, Nancy D. “We will get what we ask for: why legalizing gay and lesbian marriage will not dismantle the legal structure of gender in every marriage. " Go. L.Rev. 79 (1993): 1535. Olson, Laura R., Wendy Cadge, and James T. Harrison. “Religion and public opinion on same-sex marriage*”. Social Science Quarterly 87.2 (2006): 340-360. Hull, Kathleen. Same-sex marriage: the cultural politics of love and law. Cambridge University Press, 2006.