"Land of the Free" - Rachel Webb 3rd

"U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Louisiana Same-Sex Marriage Case (Jan. 12): The U.S. Supreme Court decides not to hear a challenge to Louisiana's ban on same-sex marriage. The court declines to hear the case while it is deciding whether or not to look at the issue of same-sex marriage again. There are four other cases concerning same-sex marriage that the court can choose to hear this week. Those cases concern same-sex marriage bans in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The decisions to hear one or more of the cases is significant because if the court does take them on, it will then issue a ruling that will determine if the 14 remaining state bans are struck down. Currently, same-sex marriage is legal in 36 states. (Jan. 16): The Supreme Court decides to hear the four cases from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee in April. The cases will be consolidated and heard together. The ruling will be issued in June."

Listed above is one of thousands of articles showing how the United States Supreme Court is denying to Same-sex rights. This argument of whether people should be able to marry their partners or not is annoying. I am not gay, nor do I care what the people around me do, but my concern is, again, the validity of the statement in the National Anthem "land of the free". As long as there are laws against Gay Marraige, America is not free. The same was true when Black and White people could not eat in the same diner, or drink from the same water fountain or live in the same neighborhood. All of this is freedom. People come here to be free, but the question remains, how free are we? This IDEA of freedom has a limit here in America. 

-Read more: January 2015 Current Events: U.S. News http://www.infoplease.com/news/2015/current-events/us_jan.html#ixzz3RyiVgWai