Threaten Marriages

Publication: Word Press
Date: October 5, 2012
Cartoonist: Clay Jones 
Made in U.S.
Cartoon #3
Title of cartoon: Save Our Marriage
What action is taking place in the cartoon? What is the context?
- In the cartoon, a husband is telling his wife he is going to save their marriage. The wife responds by saying "you're going to quit drinking, cheating, and hitting me and go to counseling." The husband then responds with "heck no! I'm going to ban gay marriage!" The context of this cartoon is that if heterosexual couples want to save their marriage then they should stop things like infidelity and domestic abuse, but banning gay marriage is not going to help.

Tone of the cartoon:
1) Positive framing of sexual minorities
2) Framing is supportive to equal rights for sexual minorities
What “reality” is constructed/framed about sexual minorities and their rights?
- The cartoon illustrates that gay marriages are not the reason as to why heterosexual marriages are at jeopardy. The cartoon shows that banning gay marriages will not save a marriage and it is not what is threatening it. It illustrates that heterosexual couples need to work on drinking, cheating, and other problems that can ruin all types of marriages.



Publication: About.com
Date: May 27, 2012
Cartoonist: Mike Luckovich
Made in U.S.
Cartoon #4
Title of cartoon: Gay Marriage Threat 
What action is taking place in the cartoon? What is the context?
- In the cartoon the woman is telling her husband "be romantic like that, or I'm leaving you." The husband responds with "gay marriage does threaten my own." It is showing that heterosexual couple's feel that gay marriages threatens heterosexual marriages. The reasoning to be threatened however, is what shows the artists point of view because the reason is not a justifiable one.

Tone of the cartoon:
1) Positive framing of sexual minorities
2) Framing is supportive to equal rights for sexual minorities
What “reality” is constructed/framed about sexual minorities and their rights?
- The cartoon illustrates that gay marriages do not threaten heterosexual marriages. The reasoning that heterosexual couple's feel threatened is not a good one. Gay marriages should not threaten a heterosexual marriage just by showing affection to their loved one. This cartoon framed gay marriage in a positive way.




Publication: cartoonistgroup.com
Date: August 14, 2011
Cartoonist: Mike Peters
Made in U.S.
Cartoon #5
Title of cartoon: Mike Peter's Editorial Cartoons
What action is taking place in the cartoon? What is the context?
- In the cartoon, the mother is reading her daughter a bedtime story. The girl responds by asking about Snow White and Princess Charming. The context of the cartoon is that gay marriage will threaten the sanctity of marriage, and children will think that marriage between the same sex is the traditional thing.

Tone of the cartoon:
1) Negative framing of sexual minorities
2) Framing is opposed to equal rights for sexual minorities
What “reality” is constructed/framed about sexual minorities and their rights?
- The cartoon illustrates how gay marriage will ruin the sanctity of traditional marriage. It shows that when the little girl asks about two girls as opposed to a male and female. By the expression of the mother's face the cartoon is portraying that parents will be a little stuck for a second but will have to tell their children about the subject at such a young age. The cartoon is against same sex marriage for it will ruin the tradition of marriage and confuse younger children.




Publication: Dayton Daily News
Date: August 11, 2010
Cartoonist: Mike Peters
Made in U.S.
Cartoon #6
Title of cartoon: Threaten Marriages
What action is taking place in the cartoon? What is the context?
- In the cartoon, a woman and a man are laying in bed together. The woman says gay marriages will destroy traditional weddings. The man replies with saying "I told my wife that at breakfast this morning." The cartoon is showing that man and the woman aren't married but the man is cheating on his wife with the other woman. It's showing that it is foolish for them to say gay marriage will destroy traditional weddings but they are destroying a marriage by cheating.

Tone of the cartoon:
1) Positive framing of sexual minorities
2) Framing is supportive to equal rights for sexual minorities
What “reality” is constructed/framed about sexual minorities and their rights?
- The cartoon illustrates how heterosexual couples feel that gay marriages will ruin traditional marriage but they are ruining it with infidelity. It's showing gay marriage in a positive light because it's discrediting a lot of opinions because it is impossible for somebody to judge someone else's marriage when they are doing right in their own.





Publication: Houston Chronicle
Date: August 6, 2010
Cartoonist: Nick Anderson
Made in U.S.
Cartoon #7
Title of cartoon: Marriage Benefits
What action is taking place in the cartoon? What is the context?
- In the cartoon, two women are laying next to each other with a line divided in the middle of the bed. One woman is looking at a picture that is showing the women happy on their wedding day. The other woman is saying "hey, you wanted all the benefits of marriage." The cartoon is showing that gay couples want to get married so intensely and are not just satisfied with being happy with each other. It is making a satirical joke that marriages are not happy.


Tone of the cartoon:
1) Negative framing of sexual minorities
2) Framing is opposed to equal rights for sexual minorities
What “reality” is constructed/framed about sexual minorities and their rights?
- The cartoon illustrates how if gay couples want to get married they should know of all of the negative that comes along with it. It is framing couple's in a negative manner.





Publication: The Cagle Post
Date: May 14, 2012
Cartoonist: Gary McCoy
Made in U.S.
Cartoon #8
Title of cartoon: Obama Endorses Gay Marriage
What action is taking place in the cartoon? What is the context?
- In the cartoon, two men are laying in bed together. One man says "soon our numbers will grow as we produce more who share our preferences." The other man replies saying "Yeah! Oh wait, how are we going to do that?" The cartoon is illustrating that the gay man was thinking that they would have more people in favor with gay marriage once they produced more people. The other man had to remind him of how they are going to do that because they can not reproduce any offspring.


Tone of the cartoon:
1) Negative framing of sexual minorities
2) Framing is opposed to equal rights for sexual minorities
What “reality” is constructed/framed about sexual minorities and their rights?
- The cartoon frames gay marriage in a negative way. It is showing how gay marriages can not reproduce any offspring which is what some believe traditional marriage partially about. It showing that gay marriage is not natural and because of their sexual preference they limit themselves based off of nature.