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opposite sex. There is, in fact, a federal law (the Defense of Marriage Act) that prohibits such marriages (Hotakainen, 2009). ...
is linked to moral, religious and political views about the legalities involved in gay marriage and the sanctioning of gay and les...
since the beginning of time. In fact, one could likely argue that in many cultures it has been, and is, far more prevalent than it...
is what distinguishes us and allows us to distinguish ourselves from other animals and, in the future, from intelligent machines" ...
measure of repetition. According to information from the United Methodist News Service (05-09-00), the issue has come up at every ...
marriage is accused of being unlike heterosexual unions apart from the gender. All the moral hypocrites who fuel the controversy ...
plays a role in mandating its recognition as a union, will it automatically segue into an issue of rights that have been heretofor...
Not only are Christians against the idea that the sacrament of marriage be allowed for homosexuals, but the issue also permeates J...
no difference whatsoever" (Dowd, 2007, p. 36). Hillary Rodham Clinton was opposed to gay marriage but now considers herself "evolv...
barred from as the result of a ban on gay marriage, and for many this is simply unfair. More fundamental, however, are the argumen...
in case state law would attempt to implement it. While that never came to fruition, some states already have laws on the books ban...
The writer examines two opposing viewpoints on Prohibition. Billy Sunday preached in favor of it and against alcohol as evil while...
right of same-sex couples to marry and New Jersey has granted these couples the "legal equivalent of marriage" (Hull, 2007, p. 748...
In fifteen pages this paper presents a moral and social argument against gay marriage in a consideration of various issues to supp...
homosexuality was not a lifestyle in the eighteenth century. Rather, having sex with someone of the same gender was something that...
to everyone, therefore, nobody is denied equal protection of the laws that exist (Benne and McDermott, 2004). Activists also argu...
In six pages this paper discusses how marriage and the juxtaposing of gender roles are featured in the English restoration works i...
do not want marriage legalized for homosexuals. Bolte (1998) explains: " Many of those in the gay and lesbian rights movement who ...
It is becoming more and more apparent that the bonds of love go just as deep as heterosexual bonds; in fact, homosexual couples ar...
they affirmed their intention to found a Christian nation under God.1 Historian Frank Lambert refers to these men as the "Puritan ...
and a woman is valid and recognized in California - but complex legal and moral issues lay beneath the surface. There are some wh...
immediately discounts any justification for same-sex marriage that appeals to individual "rights" (Jordan 414). He justifies this ...
psychotherapy at their laboratories in St. Louis (Homosexuality: Help for those who want it, 1979, p. 275). Masters and Johnson cl...
examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...
Indeed, the impact Prohibition has had on social change, both then and now, is nothing short of monumental. Its existence forced ...
spent the first part of this life trying to conform. At the age of 32, he was still not openly gay. He said, "For me, coming out, ...
of development and socialization. For Freud, homosexuality in men appeared to be an example of a phenomenon he labeled as inversi...
that it controlled a bipartisan majority of more than two-thirds in each house of Congress by 1916" (Lacey, 2005, p. 45). The arg...
with the family. Of course, the other side of the coin is that this event is the first time--aside from Pearl Harbor--that America...
define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The same debate in mostly-liberal Vermont several years ago resulted in ...