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Essays 301 - 330
that the state must show that there are compelling reasons why marriage license should be issued only to heterosexual couples (Dor...
the fact that historically, men have had sex with men and women with women. Sexuality is really a separate issue. Sex can occur be...
However, this feeble attempt at legal protection goes directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitat...
and Ms. Evans are members of a fundamentalist sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints (Mormons); this sect believ...
makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...
writer, for this, relied primarily on both pictorial representations of the period (through highly stylized paintings) and writing...
said they had an obligation to give witness to the whole moral truth and reinforce Catholic teaching that gay sex is a sin" (Bisho...
looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...
without having been asked to do so, providing a reward of some type for this, or simply recognizing the effort and the initiative ...
When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...
It could be said that the ban, as well, could likely violate the concept of equality, which is also implied in the Constitution (T...
statutes that address marriage, such as the 1996 Federal Defense of Marriage Act, which states that the word "marriage means only ...
divorce rates should make a statement about the fate of the traditional family structures. Most statistics state that one in two m...
many questions which arise. II. Questions and Answers As requested by a student writing on this subject, this part of the pape...
responsibility for child-rearing or housekeeping duties traditionally assigned to women (Luker, 2003). To complicate things still ...
the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...
legal definitions of marriage exclude same-sex marriage but reveal little about what constitutes "marriage" other than as an insti...
by many as having originated in Greenwich Village New York in 1969 with the Stonewall Inn riots (Ahearn, 1996), is of course not a...
is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...
offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...
in a same-sex marriage. The definition of marriage states that it is a union of two people of the opposite sex. Given...
of marriage and those who are against same-sex marriages argue that this issue will only serve to erode the institution even furth...
family rights" (Farrell 130; Stacey and Biblarz 159). In September of 2000, the Dutch parliament followed suit by also granting e...
highest possible degree of comfort and hygiene. It has to allow for environmental requirements and for the climate in which it is ...
setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...
in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...
was viewed in the modern era as not so much a disease but was seen as lack of upbringing and evil intent. Gay relationships were s...
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...
decision to allow gay marriages, a new Pew Center poll shows 59 percent of Americans oppose such marriages, thats up from 55 perce...