Therefore there is not justifiable reason to extend that right to gay couples and in so doing change the very definition of marriage. On the other hand, more liberal citizens, backed by the President as well as many democrats, believe that marriage is right that should be extended to all, no matter of their sexual orientation, and that procreation is not the only reason for marriage, but instead it is the joining of two people that love each other. This controversial issue is being fought in numerous states; however California is undoubtedly the epicentre. Proposition 8 was a referendum passed by the people that banned same-sex marriage. As soon as it was passed into law a multitude of appeals were lodged against it claiming it was unconstitutional, although to begin with proposition 8 was upheld by the courts as constitutional, for example Strauss v. Horton, eventually the Californian 9th circuit Court of appeals ruled it unconstitutional.
Assess the impact of the Stonewall Riots On Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Liberation as well as its effects the LGBT community as a whole. The Stonewall Riots were a series of violent protests against police harassment by the Gay community of New York City in 1969. While not planned; a spur of the moment uprising, the riots managed to explain to the world that the gay community are oppressed, and that we were not going to take it anymore. While not the beginning of the fight for homosexual rights, with demonstrations and other violent protests happening within America during the decades up until the ’69 riots. They affected great change in the mentality and approach of the then gay liberation movement.
However, many people are firm believers in lone parenting as it can result in advantages for children who are raised by single parents and therefore support the idea that the government should look after them by taxing other people. The government should not look after lone-parent families by taxing other people as it is ultimately the lone-parent’s decision to have a child and therefore they should have the independence whilst being financially secure in order to successfully raise a child without risking their wellbeing, along with this idea it could be argued that providing them welfare provides an incentive for their irresponsible actions. However, it could be argued that the lone-parent did not intend to have a child. This is supported by the fact that 92% claim not to have become pregnant deliberately and it is an unforgiving society which punishes them and their children by refusing to give them state benefits as a result not receiving funding and help of the government can be suggested as unjust. As a result this idea would be supported be Liberal Feminists because a key belief is equality and so all children raised by lone parents should have support.
The recent controversy over Nelly's music video " Tip-Drill" has highlighted what we've all known for some time: Hip-hop has a gender problem. And for most of hip-hop's 30-something years, folks have been compelled to point out the sexism, misogyny and homophobia that finds a forum in the lyrics of the young black and brown men who have primarily influenced the genre, and the lack of a womanist perspective that could directly counter those lyrics. In this regard, the recent decision of the Spelman College Student Government Association and others at the Atlanta University Center to try to hold Nelly accountable was part of a larger tradition, one honed by journalists like Joan Morgan, Raquel Cepeda, Karen Good and Elizabeth Mendez-Berry and scholars such as Tricia Rose, Cheryl Keyes and Gwendolyn Pough, whose new book Check It While I Wreck: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture and the Public Sphere drops in June. But in recognizing this larger tradition, we should also acknowledge that we may be asking hip-hop to do something that it's fundamentally incapable of. Let me be clear -- I'm on the front lines of any effort to get the men in hip-hop to rethink their pornographic uses of women's bodies and performance of lyrics that more often than not express, at best, a deep ambivalence about and fear of women (perfectly captured 14 years ago with the Bell Biv Devoe quip "never trust a big butt and a smile") and, at worst, outright hatred.
Lakeia Smith English 1302- C03 Professor John Wu October 24, 2011 Argumentive Essay: Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal The essay written by Thomas B. Stoddard, an executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay rights organization believes that gay and lesbian marriage should be legalized. Thomas presents his argument by using a relationship between two women. Karen Thompson and Sharon Kowalski were considered spouses in every way just not legally married. They lived together for quite some time until Sharon was struck by a drunk driver. She was disabled from the car wreck and had to reside in a nursing home.
When she speaks about Marianne, she says, "She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent." Austen weights the first half with pleasing commentary and gently undercuts it in the second. Compare this with her biting description of Mrs. Ferrars: "She was not a woman of many words; for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas." Austen begins innocently enough, but the conclusion of that sentence bitterly reveals to us the impression she wishes us to have. Reflection is necessary, for we must see the sentence as a whole.
"Peace Train" by: Cat Stevens "Peace Train" is the title of a 1971 hit song by Cat Stevens, taken from his album Teaser and the Firecat. This was a chaotic time in history. The U.S. was still grinding through the Vietnam War, McGovern was running against Nixon for the presidency, and the draft was extended even though it was supposed to end that June. Also, the controversy issues of civil rights and women's rights also demanded attention. As the ’60s came and went, war protesters were still looking to the politicians to right wrongs, fix social issues, and bring the boys home.
Many of the arguments made by the pro-life team take a moral, ethical, or religious standpoint in their persuasion of others. In order for us to gain a more objective look at the debate with real-world pros and cons, the moral, ethical, and/or religious arguments will not be covered. Abortion has been a topic of controversy in America for almost two hundred years. The earliest known instance of conflict occurred in 1821 when Connecticut outlawed the selling of poisons used to induce abortion in women (Abortion ProCon.org). In 1845, New York began the trend of slapping legal consequences for women who have abortions.
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association made the decision to remove homosexuality as a disorder within sexual deviancy from the DSM-II. The World Health Organization enacted a similar proposition in 1993, through which the orientation was no longer listed as a mental illness in the ICD-10. Whilst recent years have seen a swift movement away from categorizing homosexuality as an abnormality within medicine, a shift strongly supported by the gay community, theories attempting to explain the behaviour have made an ostensibly antagonistic step by emphasising the role of biological factors in determining sexual orientation. Such theories have been vehemently (and publicly) rejected by many religious groups, whose theologies are often built around a core of sexual morality condemning the adoption of alternative lifestyles. For those who oppose the moral implications of homosexuality, any propositions of a biological framework are associated with a sense of diminished responsibility - those who behave in such a way would do so because of innate and unalterable drives, rather than simple preferences.
Parker directs this article at the reader and attacks the reader’s emotions through her harsh tone, graphic content, and lack of rhetorical appeal. The message that the writer is trying to show is told through the caustic comments and creative hints throughout her essay. If we look past the wall of emotion that she throws on the reader, she tries to explain the true meaning of poverty so that her audience does not feel sympathetic, but relatively understanding. She goes on using literary techniques, and emotions that grab hold of the reader’s heart, which is pathos. After reading Jo Goodwin Parker’s essay, I did not feel a pity but instead I felt respect.