Cordell's+Social+Issue

I picked the topic of gay marriage because it hits home. I have a lot of friends who are gay and living in states that do not allow it and it is not helping their relationship in a world where some basic choice is judge to be extreme and harmful. People see that choice as something so significant and thinks a private choice is their business. Who someone choose to date and love is their own private business and not anyone else's business. The U.S.A was built on the principle of the pursuit of happiness and love is a pursuit of happiness. I chose this theme because I have a lot of homosexual friends. They struggle every day with it. People picking and or making fun of them, discriminating against them. Laws causing them not to be able to marry, which in turn makes their relationship a little bit unstable. They are very close to me and I wanted to bring attention to their struggle and help generate a spark in people who see my project to take a stand and help out a person who is viewed as abominations just for a simple choice they made, a choice equal to a choice of liking to roller skate or not. The creative process I went through to finish this project was long and hard. I had to sit and think what would be offensive, what would be not strong enough, what would be misinterpreted. Unfortunately I have a little of both in my project but I work hard on it. After I finally got the hang of making the clay figures that became the easiest part. Making the background for them so it stood out and made the message I wanted to send out was the hardest. There was so many decisions I had to make and a lot of them were probably not the right one. If I had more time I could probably have done a lot better. Over all I am pretty happy with my project. I think it, maybe no strongly, but gets my point across that we cannot treat people different because who they choose to love. That you cannot use religion as a excuse to discriminate against someone or think who they choose to love is wrong and immoral. I didn’t get as much time as I needed but with the time I got I am happy with my out come. The background was pretty much my only hurdle. Figuring out what pictures and statements to use was really tough.