This document contains a wedding vow script, analysis of visual elements used in promoting gay marriage, and discussion of reasons to legally recognize same-sex marriage. It addresses physical symbols like ribbons and rainbows used in gay pride. It also discusses cultural values related to marriage and family. The document argues that legally recognizing gay marriage can help reduce suicide rates, disease transmission, and guarantee equal rights.

1. Amy Jia (830391129)
Cecilia Tian (830390638)
Rebecca Han (830390607)
Wendy Zhang (830391072)

2. Do you take (Bride’s Name)
for your lawful wedded wife,
to live together after God’s
ordinance, in the holy estate
of matrimony? Will you love,
honor, comfort, and cherish
her from this day forward,
forsaking all others, keeping
only unto her for as long as
you both shall live?

3. The Sonnets 20
by William Shakespeare

5. Analysis the use of visual elements
Source: SodaHead is a online
discussion community where you can
discover, debate and discuss issues.
Audience: the netizens who enter the
SodaHead website
Meaning: we should support gay
marriage
Physical and visual aspect
Cultural and social values

6. Physical and visual aspect
 Ribbon: help, love, blessing, concern etc.
Rainbow sign: gay pride
Colour:
Red: light
Orange: healing
Yellow: sun
Green: calmness
Blue: art
Lilac: spirit
Visual symbology: the use of symbols to promote desired associations with
symbology
ideas, emotions, etc. visual symbology is often used persuade

7. Cultural and Social Values
Ideology:
a culturally enforced
idea so embedded
that it’s assumed to Marriage = two people
be true, evident, who love each other get
common sense. together
God saw gay
marriage and it was
very good.
Peace and equality
are moral values
We support
Love makes a family diversity and we
admit everyone is
equal

8. The right of gay people
Syllogism
MP: All people have the right to pursue happiness, which includes being
married.
mp: Gays are people.
▲Therefore gays possess the right to be married.

9. The right of gay people
There's no denying that marriage confers many rights, protections, and
benefits
• Medical Benefits
• Employment Benefits
• Estate Planning Benefits
You didn’t do anything wrong. You didn’t do
Karen Thompson and Sharon Kowalski anything to deserve being bullied (Obama, 2010).

10. Why should make gay marriage legal
first ？
• The law approves
• The public approves
• The customs approve
• The family approves
• Gay Marriage gets basically approved
• So the law passes gay marriage is the basic factor that makes
the social accept gay marriage

11. 1.Reduce criminal cases
(Salt Lakers, 2008 )

12. Suicide rate
• Because of discrimination, 30% to 35%
of homosexuals have had
strong suicidal thoughts
• 9% ~ 13% of people have had
suicidal behavior,
• 67% felt "very lonely"
• 63% felt "very depressed. "
• More than half of the people feel very painful and
seriously affect their life and work.
(Pittman, 2011)

13. 2.To increase morally controls
a. To reduce the behaviors of one
night stand and many sex
companions.
b. Restrict the
behaviors between gay
couples, such as force
them to use condom,
punish the improper
behavior of companion.

14. 3. To reduce the disease of
diffusion.
a. The way that same-sex people have
sex often unsafe, which has diffuse
the AIDs.
b. The major reason is the
homosexual people, especially gay
man, have many different
partners.

15. Salt Lakers, 2008

16. c. The serious fact of high percentage of sex
transmission between same-sex in China:
In 2009, the AIDs transmission caused by sex between
same-sex has already become the second high transmission,
which have 32% in all (INFZM, 2010).
The percentage of contracting HIV for male
homosexual are 45 times higher than usual people
(INFZM, 2010).

17. 4.Guarantee the gay marriage, at the
same time also guarantee the normal
marriage of heterosexuals
Recently in China, a new form of marriage has
becoming popular, it’s name is Modality Marriage ( 形式婚姻）
. There even has a website to help Chinese gay people to find for
someone pretending married. www.chinagayles.com
There already have about 500 couples in China using
Modality Marriage, from the preliminary statistics, only in
Jiangsu province has about 60 couples (Chinagayles, 2009).

18. The disadvantages of the Modality Marriage:
2. the pressure from their family members: acted like a
real wife or husband, the problems of offspring.
4. the financial problems.
A famous news in Chengdu province, a gay couple held a
wedding in a gay bar in 2010, January 3. Zeng, who was 47 years old
and have experienced a cross-sex marriage and have a daughter,
said that the marriage between he and his wife both hurt each other.
He felt guilty to his wife and daughter, for he did not have courage
to face his sexual orientation for so many years, but he still want
enjoying the happiness in his live (SCOL, 2010).

19. The legal regulations
homogeneity marriage can
reduce homosexuality to
result in with opposite sex
matrimony of many badly
effect, be
advantageous
to community
stability, family
happiness, race
regiment house
etc..

20. Map of the Global Gay
Rights
Deep blue: recognize the same-sex marriage, including Holland, Belgium,
Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway, Sweden etc.
Light blue: recognize the civil unions between same-sex marriage,
including Denmark, France, Germany, Finland, the United Kingdom, Ireland,
New Zealand etc.
Gray white: don’t recognize any relationship between same-sex couples
legally. This part of countries and regions accounted for most in the world,
including China.