... Same-sex marriage in the USA In the summer of 2012, gay marriage was a steaming hot topic of discussion in the United States. The right of marriage between two men or two women is one of the most controversial debates in the history of America. On several locations around the world, gay marriage is a legal act. But should homosexuals have the same right as “normal” people when it comes to marriage? A lot of different reasons why homosexuals should not have the right to get married have occurred in this discussion. One of the reasons why homosexuals should not have the right to get married, according to American law and point of view is, that if its possible by society, a child has the right to be taken care of by the parents who gave them life. David Blankenhorn, a publisher in the magazine “The New York Times” and author of the book “The future of marriage”, took a stand in this debate in a Californian court where he referred to a piece of law by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Children, which guarantees children this exact right. He starts out saying that he once opposed gay marriage on simple principles such as lack of biological ability to create a child, and that the child has the right to be raised by those individuals that committed to each other. Once this is explained, Blankenhorn goes on to say that he is now a marriage advocate, and that it was time for him to change his view on gay marriage. Blankenhorn believes that marriage between same...
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...The Changed Debate on Same-Sex Marriage in the United States Same-sex marriage was in the summer of 2012 a very discussed topic among the American citizens. But today the topic has lead to another focus: “Children’s rights.” The debate in 2012 In 2012 a growing debate concerning same-sex marriage at its highest. In the article “U.S. gay marriage debate shifts to Supreme Court,” “CBCnews World,” it is announced that: “The running fight over gay marriage in the U.S. is moving from the ballot box to the Supreme Court.” This sentence confirms how huge the debate was and the fact that there has been a big movement against same-sex marriage. A forefront for the movement against same-sex marriage David Blankenhorn, in his office in New York. David Blankenhorn, in his office in New York. Blankenhorn is the founder and president of the Institute for American Values, a nonpartisan organization devoted to strengthening families and civil society in the U.S. and the world. Blankenhorn is the author of “The Future of Marriage.” He is a well-known figure in the campaign against same-sex marriage in the United States. His view on the matter for instance finds expression in his book “The Future of Marriage,” and the article “How My View on Gay Marriage Changed,” The New York Times website, June 23, 2012 by David Blankenhorn. Same-sex marriage gains more acceptances in the world As time changed same-sex marriage gained more acceptances. With the late modern society the original...
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...CHANGING VIEWS OR JUST GOING “STRAIGHT” AGAINST IT? SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN THE U.S. UNFOLDED IN THE SUMMER OF 2012. THE POLITICAL SUPPORT WAS VERY IMPORTANT. BUT DID SO MANY CHANGE THEIR VIEW OR DID THEY JUST OVERCOME THEIR FEAR? During the 1990’s in the United States there was a group of people who struggled to fit into the society and to be accepted. Homosexual men and women do not have many of the same rights as heterosexuals. One example from the past is that they were not allowed to marry their partners, only because they had the same gender. In this time it was a kind of suicide to talk positive about the right of same-sex marriage. During the last year, there has been a big discussion about the legalization of same-sex marriage. Today many things have changed. With a new president and a new generation, some American’s attitude towards marriage of homosexuals has changed in 2012. Like Joe Biden, the vice president of the United States, said to the American television: “People fear what is different. Now they have started to understand.” David Blankenhorn is one of the many people, who “have started to understand”. He has changed his view on gay marriage. David Blankenhorn is the founder and president of the institute for American Values and a noted figure in the campaign against gay marriage in the U.S. In his opinion article “How my view on same-sex marriage changed” he writes about his view on homosexual marriages and his attitude-twist. David Blankenhorn’s...
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...Enmanuel Perez Freshman Seminar 101 Final Project 12/17/12 The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage According to the article “The Wedding as a Status Symbol”, Andrew Cherlin states that “A wedding was an event at which two kinship groups formed an alliance. More recently, it has been an event organized and paid for by parents” (856). In this section of the article Andrew is stating that even the way people have their weeding’s have changed in this modern era. Andrews says that wedding has recently lost it’s meaning from being a form of alliance to just being an event paid by parents for their son/daughter to get married. Later on in this section of the article Andrew states that “The wedding, it seem, has become an important symbol of the partners’ personal achievements and a stage in their self-development” (856) This shows how people are not getting married for the right reasons. People are getting married because it gives them a personal achievement. It makes them feel like they are following a tradition by doing what everyone else has been doing. How My View on Gay Marriage Changed. By: BLANKENHORN, DAVID In this article David Blankenhorn talks about how his view on gay marriage has changed over the time. Blankenhorn talks about how gay marriage or same sex marriage can actually be a positive thing in how it can unite people together. According to the article it says “For me, the most important is the equal dignity of homosexual love. I don't believe that opposite-sex...
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...Gay Marriage Gay marriage has provided one of the biggest debates in this decade. Now in 2015, after about 10 years of discussion of whether gay marriage should be legal or illegal, gay marriage is now legal in every state of America. Though there are still many different opinions about whether gay marriage should be legal or illegal. A debate on the website ProCon.org shows different quotes for and against gay marriage. The newest quotes are written June 26th 2015, which is the date where gay marriage officially became legal in every 50 states of America. Below there is a graph, which shows the legality of gay marriage in America during the last 22 years. A quote against gay marriage, from ProCon.org, written by The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) is about how God designed marriage and that it is a relationship between a man and a woman. Another quote against gay marriage comes from Mike Huckabee, who is a Republican Presidential candidate and former Governor of Arkansas. Mike Huckabee argues against gay marriage by talking about the purpose of marriage. He says that the purpose is to create the next generation and to train the next generation, so they can replace us. In the end of the quote he says, “Marriage is a sacred covenant, not just another social contract”. In the gay marriage debate on ProCon.org there are also quotes, which are for gay marriage. An example is a quote from Obergefell v. Hodges written by Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. This...
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...How Everyone’s View on Gay Marriage Should Change Marriage is a commitment between two individuals. It is the ultimate way of showing your significant other that you love them. At this moment, in many countries and states, it is not legal to get married and show each other this eternal love, if your significant other is of the same sex as you are. This has been a huge debate around the world, but especially in the US. The population in America seems to be very torn when it comes to discussing gay marriage. But why is that? An answer could be that there are many stereotypes about gay relationships, and many people have a narrow-minded and one-sided view on same sex marriage. This view can, and should, be changed, which is the main purpose of the article “How My View on Gay Marriage Changed” by David Blankenhorn, founder and president of the Institute for American Values. Blankenhorn was a remarkable figure in the campaign against same-sex marriage in the US, but as the title of his article states, this view changed: Blankenhorn’s main point of view in the beginning of the article is the fact that the United Nations Convention stated by the Rights of the Child that every child has the right to know their biological parents. He believes that “Marriage is the planet’s only institution whose core purpose is to unite the biological, social and legal components of parenthood into one lasting bond”. He uses logos and points out that it is actually a child’s right to know his or her...
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...Gay Wedded Bliss Erica Pickering SOC 120 David Strand June 24, 2013 I chose the topic Gay Marriage, and I chose this one, because I have such a strong view and opinion on this topic. I wish that one day we could all live in a world where everyone is accepted, no matter who that love, that is my idea of a perfect world, that and no violence. Gay Marriage I know though will never be 100% accepted everywhere, and it does not have to be, everyone has the right to their own opinion and freedom of speech. I am completely for Gay Marriage, I do not see an issue at all, but I know others feel differently. I feel that the gay community should get the same treatment and same benefits we do with marriage. My opinion on this issue has always been the same as long as I can remember. I have never had a problem with gays, nor will I ever; I just view them as people. I wish everyone could have the same views, I think this world would be a better and more comfortable place. I know gays are viewed as different, and outcasts but I know I would not want to feel that way. I follow the golden rule, treat others as you would want to be treated and do unto others and you would wish them to do to you. I have never had anyone close in my family that was gay, but I have had friends that I knew were gay, and they were honestly no different than my straight friends. They treated me the same, treated their families and other friends the same, nothing different. I had this girl, who used to be...
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... “What is gay marriage?” Bronner, E. (2012, June 23). Gay marriage gains backer as major foe revises views. The New York Times, pp. 9A. Ethan Bronner exhibits the change of mind of David Blankenhorn, a national figure in the movement against same-sex marriage, about his opposition towards gay marriage and the reactions he received due to that switched thought. Bronner wrote, “I opposed gay marriage believing that children have the right, insofar as society makes it possible, to know and to be cared for by the two parents who brought them into this world,'' referring to Blankenhorn old thoughts where he added to his idea, “Whatever one's definition of marriage, legally recognizing gay and lesbian couples and their children is a victory for basic fairness.'' This meaning that he changed his ideology for the civil rights’ sake of equality. Bronner follows by expressing the response of Rev. Jim Garlow, senior pastor, who contradicts Blankenhorn new opinion along with Peter S. Sprigg. This article contributes demonstrates the power of an open mind. It shows how a person who had a straight definition of what he thought marriage was changed that interpretation with the help of many outside factors. Kottak, C. P. (2012). Mirror for humanity: A concise introduction to cultural anthropology (8th Ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill Companies. Conrad Phillip Kottak explains what marriage is in the point of view of anthropologists, and exposes...
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...When discussing gay rights, very many questions arise. Questions such as how long has homosexual behaviour been going on? How many countries are legalizing gay marriage? Why do homosexual and lesbian couples get to live the same way that straight couples do? Gay rights is a topic that many Americans are unfamiliar with, due to the fact that the baby boomers were raised in a generation where racism was alive and homosexuals/lesbians were an abomination. Therefore, children and young adults are experiencing a different world now. Homosexuality has been recorded as early as the Roman times. Then again, all were rumors or word of mouth so nothing was ever concrete, up until 1924, where the society for human rights was founded by Henry Gerber...
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...between these writings and “Feeling Backward” because the latter seeks to weigh the cost of the contemporaneous move of same-sex relationships and marriages to the mainstream of our lives. The article’s recognizes the significant meaning the past has in line with the concept of homosexuality and lesbianism. Discussions on this topic have been present since medieval times with the critics of the topic choosing to focus on a more future oriented approach. They do so in little regard to past in effect not clearly deciphering how important this past is. The critics tend to focus more on an “affective history” rather than an “effective history” with an associated shift of focus from desiring to understand if there were gay people in the past to focusing on whether it is important to know whether there were gay people in the past (Love 31). The approach by these writers and debaters tend to concur that yes the idea of same sex love is not new and it has existed in the past. They also acknowledge that the gay people have a past that they constantly are haunted by. The difference is that they offer this concept a biased view by suggesting that the past was characterized by love, friendship, desire and community which does not take into account the bad times, wounds and the low moments that were inevitably present (Love 32). This is the view that Heather Love seeks to defy by having a more holistic approach...
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...Gay Marriages Priscilla Reyes Sociology 120: Introduction to Ethics & Sociology Kathleen Miller March 10, 2013 Gay marriages, I don’t believe in gay marriages only in marriages between a man and woman. I know that a lot of gays or lesbians are trying to get the Supreme Court to approve same sex marriage. In California, the Supreme Court is trying to get same sex marriages ban nationwide. The gay and lesbian are using the law to have the same sex marriages pass and there have been about 3 states like Maine, Maryland, and Washington that have passed the same sex marriage. In other states like Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Rhode Island, Minnesota, and New Jersey are against the same sex marriage. I don’t think that it should change what marriage is referring to between two men or two women; it is based on a man and woman marrying in holy matrimony. This is stated in the Bible and thru the standard government law and constitution. The government shouldn’t change the law of the constitution or the bill of rights because of same sex marriages. The gays and lesbians want the same rights as a man and a woman do when they get married, for instance if the significant other happens to pass away the significant other would inherited what their significant other left behind. It is not the same when a man inherited his wife life insurance policy or the wife inherits her husband’s life insurance. Marriage should only be between a man and a woman not two men or two women getting...
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...In your class I have learned many view points and angles on marriage, family, and self. Your class has not completely changed my viewpoints on all of these things but it has brought up many questions and concerns with society and society's standards. Your class has taught me the true meaning of family and marriage. I believe family is a strong, sufficient group of people made up of mother, father, and child. However, the viewpoints we have talked about in marriage I still slowly struggle with. I have learned that marriage is an inseparable vow between man and women, and That the main goal and purpose of marriage is salvation and reproduction. I do agree that without sex and God marriage is simply a contract, which at any point can be broken,...
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...In the United States, there is a lot of controversy over the issue of gay marriage. There are constant discrepancies between adamant believers in gay marriage and the political leaders of our country. The government’s refusal of the right of the marriage of homosexuals should not be tolerated. A large portion of people in America at the moment are utterly and completely against gay marriage, however there are also those who possess a more liberal view on the situation and feel differently towards the subject of equal treatment for all people. Religious beliefs often play a substantial role in the decision making process in many ways. For instance, Christian politicians are using their religious beliefs to impose their views and ideas upon people of their denomination. Christians believe that gay marriage shouldn’t be allowed because of the Bible entries that suggest that God made man and women for each other and that any other variation of this couple is a sin. Some feel that this country was founded on the beliefs of Christianity and therefore we should respect those ideals of our forefathers but this can no longer be the case. Our society has grown throughout the years and people have become more and more accepting of change. Every person has their own religious freedom to worship which ever God they see fitting and to believe in any cause they choose. There has been separation from church and state for many years...
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...Coretta Holley February 11, 2011 ENG-106 English Composition II 31-January-2011 (O101) Casey Kadavy Same Sex Marriages During the course of this essay, we will explore and discover both sides of the controversial issue on should gay couples be allowed to marry. The topic of homosexual marriage is an ongoing issue today and this has been a battle in progress for years, over gay marriages and should they be legalized. There are many people in society feel that same sex marriages are morally and ethically wrong, and other that feel they are acceptable and not wrong. In writing on this topic I had strong feelings toward the issue of same sex marriages. My view point on the issue of same sex marriage is wrong and I strongly agree that gay couples should not be allowed to marry. The reason I am opposed on this issue is because it goes against God will and purpose of marriage. In other words God created Eve because he knew that it was not good for man {Adam} to be alone. The way God uniquely created Eve from one of Adam’s rib describes God’s design for marriage, that the husband and wife become one. Therefore how can two men or two women of the same sex become one as God intended in marriage. Marriage is a union between one man and one woman. God intended marriage for procreation, which means a start of a family, so how can two of the same sex produce a child and start a family. Homosexuality is a sin and it goes against God laws. The word of God say, do...
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...Gay Marriage: What’s the Problem??? “Homosexuality is not normal and should not be established as an acceptable ‘alternative’ lifestyle,’” Blount wrote. “A day is fast approaching when North Carolina will have to deal with the issue of same sex marriage.” This phrase is written across dozens of newspapers, journals, and websites. All you have to do is simply go to yahoo, type in gay marriage in North Carolina and thousands of results come up. Now you may think at first that most of these websites or links may just be talking about the approaching topic, but you would be baffled by what you actually do find. In my case the first time I searched the topic of gay marriage in this state, I was at a loss for words when the first 500 results were all against gay marriage. Such titles as “support traditional marriage” and “nogaymarriage.com” where some of the first I saw. You would have to rummage around through thousands of results before finding one moderate website that could actually tell you what was going on without putting in their own input. Gay marriage, in my opinion should be allowed. There is no strong reason for why homosexuals cannot be married. People should drop all of the political jargon and realize how they would feel if someone told them they could not marry the person they loved just because they were heterosexual. It’s easier to understand once the shoe is one the other foot. One argument heard is that same sex marriages will take away from the founding...
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