Protest Poster

Hopefully, the above picture is clear enough to communicate my position on a topic.  If not, I believe that government should not be involved in the marriages of the people.  I believe that requiring a marriage license is unconstitutional since it is a private agreement between people.  Now that you know my stance on the issue, maybe you should go look back at the poster to really get it.  

Did you look?  Good.  Or bad if you said no.  Alright.  So now that you get it, this is a perspective that is rather old but one that many people do not consider in the present day because most are too worried about the legality of gay marriage.  During the numerous gay marriage debates that have occurred I had often wondered if there was a solution that could satisfy both parties and this is the only one that I see as viable. I began to think that laws didn’t seem to fix questions of morality , it was talked of by some candidates for the republican primary like Gary Johnson and Ron Paul.  I found it to be a thought-provoking idea that I had not really thought of before so I did research on the history of marriage licenses and I have become very interested in this issue.  Ron Paul wrote about this idea of separation in his book Liberty Defined.  He talks about marriage being a religious or private institution so there should be a separation from the government.  There are news stories and articles that I’ve found on the internet that also support this.  John Fund’s article in the National Review titled “Why Not Separate Marriage and State?” talks about how this idea would end some of the social warfare having to do with marriage rights.  This is one of the main reasons I support the idea. 

I went to my old reliable Photoshop to create this project.  I actually got the idea of using a wedding topper from images I saw supporting gay marriage.  Many of them had two men or two women as the toppers and they became very iconic so I wanted to use this type universal icon in my poster.  The color scheme is obviously just the same as the color scheme of the  American flag.  This I did because in my experience people seem to accept something easier when it is seen as patriotic.  The decay I added to the poster is something that is just reminiscent of old propaganda and protest posters I’ve seen so I decided to add that in.  The wording I used was intended to be somewhat clever, hopefully it came out that way. I liked the psycho shower scene poster we saw so I wanted to use few words that would be topical but somewhat witty as well.

After posting it on Facebook I got quite a few comments with a number of them being from me as I was having a discussion with our very own Seth Owens.  I was hoping for more feedback from people who were not involved on this project in class because I wanted to know an outsider’s perspective.  Though some people did comment and say they liked it or disagreed it would have been nice to get more participation.  I think if I would’ve timed it better I could’ve gotten better results.