YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Controversy Surrounding Gay Marriage
Essays 181 - 210
important. One could well argue that in all cultures the institution of marriage has generally been an institution that encouraged...
of grandparents, aunts or uncles, brothers or sisters, adoptive parents, single parents and almost any sort of family one could im...
that the basic needs and desires of a society to maintain stability and social order are often very influential in where a society...
work, does not eliminate the need for men and this has not provided an excuse for them to essentially run away. In all honesty men...
and mother. Nor does she seem to have regretted that - basically, she had no choice in the matter. Mr. Ramsay...
In truth, this is an argument that really does not have much of a foundation. It is vague and does not do anything but essentially...
is what distinguishes us and allows us to distinguish ourselves from other animals and, in the future, from intelligent machines" ...
opposite sex. There is, in fact, a federal law (the Defense of Marriage Act) that prohibits such marriages (Hotakainen, 2009). ...
manner inconsistent with the intentions of the people in enacting that provision. Yet that is precisely what has happened in the S...
homosexuality was not a lifestyle in the eighteenth century. Rather, having sex with someone of the same gender was something that...
by many as having originated in Greenwich Village New York in 1969 with the Stonewall Inn riots (Ahearn, 1996), is of course not a...
given full faith and credit, and that the DOMA itself violates the Fifth Amendments Equal Protection Clause as well as the Full Fa...
on the sanctity of traditional matrimony, traditional values, where a man and a woman join lives to create a family. Sex may be a...
the world. Whether an individual believes in free agency the right to personal decisions (privacy) or a system of behavior and co...
In six pages this paper emphasizes social tolerance in an examination of marriages and parenting of same sex couples. Six sources...
This essay uses scholarly articles to present an argument in favor of the legalization of same-sex marriage. The writer presents r...
observation as well noting that this prohibition is a substantive one just as was women being kept out of certain occupations in o...
In five pages this paper discusses how North Dakota does not legally recognize the union of two partners of the same sex. Three s...
In nine pages this paper examines gay marital unions in terms of economic, political, and social implications in a conclusion that...
to everyone, therefore, nobody is denied equal protection of the laws that exist (Benne and McDermott, 2004). Activists also argu...
In ten pages this research paper examines both sides of the gay child adoption issue and supports the rights of gays to adopt chil...
This paper presents an overview of David H. Hackworth's Washington Post article from 1992 entitled The Case for a Military Gay Ban...
are in fact protected by the society--by social services, by nosy neighbors, by teachers-so it stands to reason that society shoul...
In nine pages gay culture is examined in an overview that considers among other topics the definition of deviance, mannerisms and ...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at post-Revolution Britain and the satirical literature that emerged from there. Gay's ...
ethnicities? Should Christian parents be allowed to adopt children born of Jewish parents or vice versa? Opponents say emphaticall...
growth of a child: the mother provides stability and sanctity, while the father contributes strength and a work ethic; as such, ea...
far back into our history. Indeed, the concept of family itself can be described as the "oldest fundamental of all social institu...
sex partner and says: "I wanted to have a big wedding. We had 100 to 150 people-my parents, my extended family, my parents friends...
the treatise Feminization of males and masculinization of females (Meyerowitz, 2002). Meyerowitz (2002) claims Steinachs research...