Although the marriages will not be recognized as legal, the ceremonies will be simply symbolic in nature. In the past several years, there has been heated debate over whether gay men and women should receive the same rights and privileges as others.
Issues involving homosexuality are common place in today s media.
On any given day, a person might hear a number of different controversial issues being discussed, from gays in the military, to same-sex marriages, to allowing gay men and women to obtain leadership roles in religious groups. Whatever the issue involved is, there is without a doubt always people in support of and against equal rights for homosexual men and women. It was very difficult to find recent journal articles on the subject of the formation of opinions on homosexuality. I had an extremely difficulty time finding literature on opinions of homosexuality in relation to region, education and age. This may be, in my opinion, because so many take for granted that religion has the strongest influence.