POL210: Final Project Gay Marriage Abstract Gay marriage has many viewpoints both for and against. These viewpoints are from religious organizations as well as studies that have provided statistics regarding gay marriage. There are many articles that are used for research that disprove many of the theories that religious organizations use to defend the opposition of gay marriage. Religious based bias against gay marriage comes from beliefs and a person’s moral make up. Gay marriage has been
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that she considers relevant to the issue of same sex couples in today’s society. She is frustrated because she is not easily able to purchase the book “And Tango Makes Three” which she thinks would help she and her husband explain how same sex couples are intertwined within today’s society. The mother of two, one which is a “voracious reader” has asked the question; “How can Sam have two moms and no dad? In this author’s opinion as a parent a child of that age has no idea what the question
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legalized. Not too many years ago, it was not legal for two men to have sex with one another and it was listed as a mental illness as well that was to be treated, not accepted as good. The real question then should be, is gay marriage good for the nation and for children? We already know that divorce and single parents raising children are not good (though not technically bad either and each case varies) for either. With no parents to guide children we have seen crime rates rise, suicide rise, confusion
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some states, was already granted to the homosexual community. Now, the entire country has to honor, accept, and allow same sex marriage. Even though this is a right that should have been granted to this community a long time ago, there was still a long and tiring fight for it. Now, the same thing is happening but with homosexual parenting. As we all know, two people from the same sex can not create a child. So in homosexual communities, if artificial insemination
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jmc The gay rights movement continue to be a hot-button topic as we push our way into 2013. I find it difficult to believe that the United States is lagging behind in its equality laws. Slowly but surely, acceptance for people of all sexual orientations is becoming a reality across our country; unfortunately however, there is still strong opposition to the inevitable force of equal rights. I believe that gay equality, especially in our nation, should be not a question. The founding principles
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Maternity and paternity leave also reinforce the conventional nuclear family type, as maternity leave is far longer than paternity leave; this assumes that the mother is the primary caretaker of the child (this is not the case in Sweden, where both parents are treated as equal caretakers and income earners). Both New Right and New Labour are in favour of the nuclear family because they view it as the best way for a child to be adequately socialised. The New Right view the division of labour as natural
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United States homosexual community in an awkward position. There are some people who think that gay people have no rights and should never be allowed to marry. Other people believe that gay people are just like anyone else and should enjoy the same rights and privileges as heterosexuals do. I think that the United States should allow these couples to marry just like any other couple. There are many opponents of gay people as it is, and they all have their reasons to dislike the idea of letting
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Same Planet-different worlds Growing up partly in Nigeria and in the United States gave me an insight into how different and sometimes similar cultures and values are. I was fourteen years old when my family relocated from Nigeria to the U.S, but at that age I was already groomed by my parents and society to act and think a certain way. This was a mindset that was ingrained in me right from a tender age. There was one acceptable way to act in public and quite a different one with family and friends
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look and each other as a gift from one to another. Now in this day we also see same sex marriage and we look at that as being okay with each other and being okay with god. We have seen it more and more often then before, when people fall in love they what to unite the love by being married and that is when we see that same sex marriage is becoming more and more common in todays world. We will be talking about same sex marriage, the pro and cons of this topic have become so enlarged that I will try
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Equality: Issues Concerning Equal Rights in the United States Jonathan Hunnicutt ETH/125 Cultural Diversity Shanda Jones-Burel 27 April 2014 As we know there have been many equality issues in the United States. Over the course of history many people have fought to change their status from inequality. In today’s society there are still instances of discrimination. However, there are laws to help when a situation has become an act of discrimination whether it is in the workplace, real estate
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