...What comes to one’s mind when he or she hears same-sex marriage? Same sex marriage or gay marriage is the union of two people from the same-sex. In the United States marriage is approved, currently five states have legalized same-sex by vote to the State Legislature. The issue has been controversial, because for many people same-sex-marriage is considered immoral. Most religions see homosexuality as abnormality because of their religious believes. In the article “Gay Marriage, an Oxymoron” by Lisa Schiffren. In the article she claims that the basis for society to develop and support marriage is for people to engender and raise children in the normal form. Her allegation is that is that same-sex marriage should not be legalized because making it legal will change the definition society gives marriage, giving it a different definition that will try to make same-sex marriage equivalent to heterosexual marriage. Schifrin fails to argue in her article based on the following subjects of discussion: religion, the importance of children in marriage, the fairness of legal benefits. First Lisa Schifrin brings out religions, more specifically Judeo-Christians claims that the concept of same-sex marriage is contradictory. In her article she express in her writing. “Same-sex marriage” is inherently incompatible with our culture’s understanding of the institution. Marriage is essentially a lifelong compact between a man and a woman committed to sexual exclusivity and the creation and nurturance...
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...Alyandry vielma Islam and Christianity Many say that Islam and Christianity are similar, by making the assumption that they worship the same God. These two religions may have similar things, but it does not mean that because some beliefs might be similar that they are the same. Islam and Christianity differ in many areas like, their source of authority, the nature of God, and their essential practices. There are many areas in which they differ, but the ones mentioned are the basic structure of each religion. Since they are more different then they are similar, this would be the best way of knowing their differences. There are many things by which authority is needed. We also are subject to authority in all things. Christianity and Islam are more different then similar in the source of authority. In Christianity, the founder is Jesus, human and divine. Christianity follows the bible, which is the collection of sacred writings of the religion and includes the Old and New Testament. Under Christianity there are the Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Catholics follow the pope, which differs from the Eastern Orthodox as mentioned in The Council of Constantinople “And in the Spirit, the holy, the lordly and life-giving one, proceeding forth from the father, the one who spoke through the prophets.” On the other hand the Eastern Orthodox follows Christ, and does not accept of what the Council of Constantinople states, saying in the 3rd Council of Toledo, “Directs...
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...HOMOSEXUALS BE ABLE TO MARRY?” I. The leading cause for counter argument throughout this paper purpose directs focus amongst arguments’ opposing flawed general hasting reasoning toward slippery slopes the human kind sees logical presenting why homosexuals should not be able to marry. II. The political fight for homosexual marriage is important not in the reasoning surrounding the topic that homosexuals should be able to marry. A. Marriage wrap around the meaning of love. B. The topic children affected by homosexual parenting disputes raise issues. C. Homosexual civil rights is not being seen the same as heterosexuals. III. The author’s core elements in counter argument are deep-rooted opinions A. Marriage is love, B. Religion C. Effects raising children D. Homosexuals’ rights. IV. Civil rights applies different meaning defining marriage verses union A. Civil rights based on evidence. V. Author Conclusion Understanding Homosexual Issues Reasoning. A. Love, Honor, and Commitment develops a foundation providing reasoning for marital status. Even though as Author, I can understand the views opposing homosexuals’ marriage. As essayist of this paper, I do find further discussed opposing arguments weak for reasoning in determining homosexual not being able to marry. At the same time, understanding homosexual love for another is no different when passion inters either type of relationships. The cause of this paper is to understand the reasoning...
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...English Aristocratic Marriage Negotiations, 1400-1700 Bruce Guy ANT101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Dr. Emma Bate September 23, 2013 Marriage from the 14th century through the 17th century was more of a business arrangement between two families than a joining of a man and woman to live together in the holy bonds of matrimony. In some cases, the women were married to the suitor who had the most to offer. Marriages during those centuries focused more on status and wealth than on love. According to Desmet, “to marry for affection alone was deemed irresponsible, even immoral” (Desmet 2002). A woman’s position in the aristocracy and her living standards depended heavily on her husband’s wealth, political power, and rank. The goal of her parents was to have her marry into the wealthiest, highest ranking family possible. Marriage among the aristocrats is a collective decision of family and kin, not an individual one. Past lineage associations, political patronage, extension of lineage connections, and property preservation and accumulation were the principle considerations. Property and power were the predominant issues which governed negotiations for marriage, while the greatest fear in a society so acutely conscious of status and hierarchy was of social derogation in marriage, of alliance with a family of lower estate or degree than ones own (Stone 1977). In most cases the parents and children agreed because...
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...According to the book “Ways of Reading” by Bartholomae, Petrosky, and Waite, panopticism in Foucault’s paper is the all Seeing Eye. He starts his essay of by talking about the plague in the seventeenth century. There was a closing of the town and its outer lying districts. Each street was placed under the authority of a syndic, who keeps it under surveillance. Each house was watched over by the syndic who would come to lock each door from the outside of the house. Everyone was quarantined into their homes. The severity of this lack of freedom was expressed in Foucault’s essay when he said inspection functions ceaselessly. The gaze is alert everywhere, and a considerable body of militia, commanded by good officers and men of substance, guards everyone, everywhere, to prompt the obedience of the people. Foucault discussed the rise of lepers, which also gave rise to disciplinary projects. Rather than separating people into groups, like they did during the plague, multiple distinctions were used to separate people. The plague-stricken town was, as Foucault states, traversed throughout the hierarchy, surveillance, writing, the town immobilized by the functions of extensive power. In order to have the perfect disciplinary functioning, one would put themselves in the place of the syndic during the plague. This control over people functioned to cut them off from all contact with each other. According to the reading, Foucault talked about the Panopticon, a building that was separated...
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...Same-Sex Marriage and Heterosexual Marriage: Two Birds of a Different Feather Terrence A. Bradshaw Composition II May 29, 2014 Same-Sex Marriage and Heterosexual Marriage: Two Birds of a Different Feather Since the nineteen seventies, same-sex marriages have always been something that society, as a whole, has never really came to grips with. When Richard John 'Jack' Baker and James Michael McConnell applied for a marriage license, the two University of Minnesota students were denied the application, by Hennepin County District Court clerk Gerald Nelson, because the applicants were both men on May eighteenth, nineteen seventy. Even though the men fought for what they believed was right all the way up to the Supreme Court, the court agreed with Nelson. The Baker v. Nelson case has been used in other states as precedent to block efforts at marriage equality (Gay Marriage Timeline, 2014). Was the Supreme Court right almost fifty years ago… maybe so?! Same-sex marriage should not be viewed the same as heterosexual marriages. Although same-sex marriages may have some similarities, heterosexual marriages are completely different than same-sex marriages. Marriage has always been viewed as an institution where a union of a man and a woman are uniquely involved in the procreating and rearing of children within a family setting. Around two-thousand three, same-sex marriage once again became a “hot-button” issue in the media. More than half of Americans was not in favor of making...
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...parents came together is less important than, simply, that they do stay together rather than divorce. Last everybody knows that both in love, and arranged marriages, there will be good , and bad times. Turning to differences, a significant one is that an arranged marriage is more of a contract between families, and society. In contrast , a love marriage tends do focus more on the two parents rather than extended family members. Another noteworthy distinction is that partners in arranged marriages are more likely to be the same nationality, and religion. Their counterparts, however, may well differ in these aspects. Finally, some people would argue that in a love marriage, people know each other better before they tie the knot. Those who are matched up, however, will probably not know each other very well before marriage. To sum up, we can see numerous similarities, and differences between the two types of matrimony. I perfect arranged marriage because it’s more representatively of my background as a Bangladeshi. Moreover , I think I know myself better than my parents, and can make a better...
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...Elements of Religious Traditions Religion comes in a number of varieties. What one group of people believes will find another believes something completely different. With all the various religious rituals and beliefs it is hard for anyone to understand all the customs and worship. Humans are constantly striving to find a sense of tranquility and harmony and searching for what will give them that sentiment and understanding. People bring thoughts from the religion they are brought up or predisposed too. under or from the principal religion of their circle. For example they may think that all religion has a sacred book, worships a heavenly being, or that it has a set of commandments (Molloy & Hilgers, 2010). Religion has eight elements, belief system, community, central myths, rituals, ethics, characteristics emotional experiences, material expressions, and sacredness (Molloy & Hilgers, 2010). Each religion has its own belief system and thoughts. It is no surprise that each religion characterizes in a different way the nature of sacred reality, the cosmos, the natural world, time and human purpose. Religions also vary in their way of thinking toward the role of words in conveying the sacred in their connections to other customs. Some religions speak of the sacred as transcendent, existing primarily in a space further than the everyday world. In other religions whereas sacred reality is spoken of as being immanent that is, it is within nature and human...
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...them as often. But, even if you don't talk to them and see them as often if you really do love them and know they love you also your love for the person doesn't change. pg.11 1) The “sacramental economy” is the system Christ uses to make himself and his saving graces present. 2) Christ is like a sacrament because it cannot be fully explained or understood. 3) Jesus is an effaces sign because instead of just revealing God’s love for us he actually brings us the love. 4) He is not the eight sacrament because he is the basis of all of the sacraments. reflection 1)I haven’t received my first communion. 2)I wouldn't say that i have a strong longing for Christ yet. I am still trying to figure things out about religion before i can fully commit. pg.15 1) It is a mystery, it is a visible sign of the unseen divine reality, and it is an efficacious sign. 2) Sheepfold, flock of sheep, cultivated field or vineyard, building of God, bride if christ and mother and new jerusalem. 3) The church is a sign of holiness because the holy spirit dwells in the church and in the hearts of the faithful, sign of catholicity because it is universal, sign of apostolicity because the church is supervised by leaders who are authorized to act in the name of christ and it is a sign of oneness because all the churches are united with each other by faith. reflection 1) ? pg.20 1) Communion with Christ and the church, communion with people throughout...
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...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 married. When it comes to being in an abusive relationship it is still not the same when it’s between the same sex...
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...husband Cameron Tucker (Modern Family 2009- present) (TV Series) to bring home dinner so they could sit down as a family. Ted Olson (Olson, 2010, p. 2) wrote that “Marriage is one of the basic building blocks of our neighborhood and our nation. It transforms two individuals into a union based on shared aspirations, and in doing so establishes a formal investment in the well-being of society. The fact that individuals who happen to be gay want to share in this vital social institution is evidence that conservative ideal enjoy widespread acceptance” It could be argued that there is no subject more divided in the United States today than same gender marriage. Same sex marriage is talked about in some form almost daily, whether it is politics, religion or on the job. Some states, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Washington and even Washington D.C. have made it legal for same sex marriages. Both sides of the issue of same sex marriages face the United States today. There are many views on the essential features of marriage. Marriage has always thought to be universally understood as a biological, social and economic arrangement to bring into the world and raise the young. For example, (Wedgwood, 1999) believes that the basic core, for marriage has three elements: (1) sexual intimacy; (2) domestic and...
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...Marriage is the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law. Nonetheless I feel that marriage should not be limited to couples of opposite sex since it is just as equally possible for people of the same gender to fall in love with each other. Gay marriage is frowned upon by many religions like Christianity and Catholicism which both consider gay marriage a sin. Although opinions on the topic vary throughout the country, nine states have already legalized same-sex marriage, all of which include Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Washington and Vermont; three of which became legalized as a result of popular vote. The Full Faith and credit clause is a section in the United States Constitution which conditions that states must respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state", marriage is of course protected by this clause, however this does not apply to same-sex marriage because of the Defense of Marriage act. Same-sex marriage is a personal choice that in no way harms society therefore should not be discriminated against. Marriage is a special union and a way of expressing to one’s companion how much you love them and that you are willing to spend a lifetime together with them, whether the is a couple of opposite sex or same sex should not matter. In conclusion same-sex marriage will continue to be debated topic...
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...Same Sex Marriage Throughout the government we have the freedom to act on many things. Such as the freedom of speech, the freedom to practice our own beliefs, and the freedom of choice, but when it comes to the same sex population the government denies these freedoms by not allowing them the choice to marry their significant other. Within this essay I hope to shed some light on how it may affect a same sex partnership not being able to join in matrimony, but also how the government and religion play a part in denying these rights to the same sex society. If we were to sincerely look in to the lives of a same sex couple we would see the same things we go through as straight couples; we love one another, we fight with each other, we are passionate about our other half, and we are dedicated to our relationships. When we deny the acceptance of these emotions and actions we are taking away what it is to be in a relationship. We are becoming what we teach our children not to be. We ourselves are bullies. In doing so we are hurting many same sex couples by taking their lives away and their self-worth. Telling them they are wrong, they are sinners, and we band them to hell, but really what for, what is the true reasoning behind it? Is this really what God wanted? While we think about our government we think that it is unbiased and they are doing what is best for our country, but that seems to not be as true for the same sex community. Day after day they have to face...
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