Getting an education is essential to becoming a good social worker. Social workers need cultural competency to work with all types of populations, including people of different ethnicities, races, genders, sexual identities, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic statuses. We also need enough education to advocate for our clients and feel comfortable advocating for them. Our LGBT clients go through obstacles that straight people will never have to face, such as fighting for the right to marry, being picked on at school, and trying to prove to people that their sexual orientation is a real thing. The following paragraphs explain how the articles about the lack of social work education have influenced my views on my education and career. Even though the gay rights movement has been around for some time, the things they fight for are forever changing. He currently fights for the right to marry and for all the rights that heterosexuals get when they get married. Marital privilege is like white privilege; married people have more rights than unmarried people, regardless of the gender they are married to. These benefits include insurance coverage under your spouse's policy, inheritance of Social Security benefits, receipt of pensions and personal property without taxation, the right to hospital visitation without questions, and the right to make health care decisions (LaSala , 2007). On top of all this, being married comes with a social advantage; represents a healthy, developed and normal relationship (LaSala, 2007). Before reading this article, I had never thought about why married people are given all these rights. I never thought about where they came from, who invented them, or why they were made. Why we fight for the legalization of same-sex marriage a...... middle of paper ......g for the rights of discriminated against people should be one of our main goals. As a school counselor, your job is to advocate for every student who comes into your office, no matter if they are gay, straight, black, or white. As a student who will graduate in three weeks, I am excited to begin supporting the population in which I choose. At this point I choose to work in foster care and adoption, so I will advocate for that population in every way I can because that is my job. I could potentially work with a same-sex couple looking to foster or adopt, and I will do my best to advocate for them so they can do so. I work in a religious organization, so I'm ready to fight for them. If you choose to be a person who could potentially work with an LGBT person, you must be prepared to support and work with that person.