Title: Reading: Sexual Orientation | Sociology
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Reading: Sexual Orientation
Sexual Orientation
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Content: Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide on June 26, 2015, when the United States Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that state-level bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional. The court ruled that the denial of marriage licenses to same-sex couples and the refusal to recognize those marriages performed in other jurisdictions violated the Due Process and the Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. YouTube
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DOMA: Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 U.S. law explicitly limiting the definition of “marriage” to a union between one man and one woman and allowing each individual state to recognize or deny same-sex marriages performed in other states
heteronormative society: assumes sexual orientation is biologically determined and unambiguous
heterosexism: