In the section titled, “The Reality of Homosexuality and its Lifestyles,” Ray states, “Many homosexuals engage in sexual practices that are virtually unknown among heterosexuals.” After checking the front cover to determine if this book was written in this century, I found it difficult to believe Ray felt he could effectively speak for the entire heterosexual world when he made this statement. During my initial enlistment processing, I was asked if I was homosexual or heterosexual. I was never asked if I
“Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal” Stoddard’s “Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal” discusses the lack of freedom, fairness, and equality for same sex couples. The topic of gay marriage has been up in the air for years. Society has shied away from the subject maybe hoping it would just disappear but that won’t be happening any time soon. The government has tried different tactics to keep homosexual couples from marrying. If we were to go back and think about the founding of America you would see many instances of one person or group thinking they knew the exact way to live and morals to follow.
All things he obviously doesn’t think the gay community is capable of. I thought going into this assignment that if I read the oppositions portion of the debate, it would sway me to want to write this assignment against gay marriage, but I must say I couldn’t stand to read the authors article. Not only was it hard to follow, in my opinion, some of his statements offended me. (AND IM NOT EVEN GAY!) Marriage connects us with our animal origins?
His emphases that many people worry that children raised by homosexual couples would suffer from confusion over sex roles, and they might turn out to be homosexual. Society is afraid the continuation of this phenomenon will become a threat of human race extinction. In contrast with Pollit is totally different because she explains The considerable body of research on the children, and the parenting abilities of gay men and lesbians has consistently found that they are as good parents as their heterosexual counterparts and that their children do not differ appreciably from children raised by heterosexuals. In other words, children who are raised from homosexual households are no more likely to be gay or lesbian than other children. These are different points of view with important and credible
II. Presentation of Evidence: Before stonewall gays and lesbians across the United States felt as if they lived a life of secrecy. If they didn’t they could risk losing their jobs, homes, and security in their neighborhood. As the years progressed homosexuals came together for their cause, but were still not strong enough to be considered equal. Many gays were labeled as having psychiatric issues and excluded from the army, and other social establishments (Sullivan, 2.)
Although the analytic theory is the only one with vindication on the matter, there is very little support found in objective scientific investigations on many components of this theory (Jensen, 1996). Over-generalizations can be extremely misleading and are not fair towards the people who are being victimized. Psychoanalytic studies on homosexuality, which pre-date the 1950’s, used patients who needed treatment for a wide range of symptoms or who were brought to treatment prisons or mental hospitals (Jensen, 1996). This research is extremely biased and does not represent the general population of homosexuals. For this reason, the results gathered from these experiments are not valid and do not support the claim
Perry Wheeler Dr. Livengood WRIT 101 10/13/2010 Is It Worth Telling Over the past sixteen years society’s views on homosexuals has greatly changed. This has had an impact on the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy due to the argument of freedom of speech. The policy states that gay persons in the military could be discharged for admitting homosexuality but not for actually being gay. Kathleen Parker discusses “The military maybe a microcosm of society in some ways but it most definitely is not a democracy” (12). Although homosexual people believe that banning gays from the military violates their civilian rights; the military says that people give up the rights and freedoms when enrolling.
California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana in the 1990s. Soon after, many states began to follow Alaska; Arizona; Colorado; the District of Columbia (DC) and Delaware, with other states voting on the law as well. So what makes Proposition 19 an ethical issue for the 21st century? In the eyes of the generally population, medical marijuana in any form is atrocious to consider in regards to medical treatment. For example, a family with a sick child has taken ever other form of treatment possible; however, the child continues to show no health improvements.
For example, the debate about gay marriage and if it is legal. As of now many states do not allow the marriage of gay people. Some states allow them to become a couple but call it something else such as the union of two people. The difference between the state and federal government is that each state has a different law about gay marriage. Not every state agrees that gay marriage is wrong and illegal, but if the federal government were to pass a amendment outlawing gay marriage then every state who allows gay marriage would have to declare it unconstitutional and against the law.
He argues that if marriage is a procreative unit then state would forbid marriage between those who cannot have children, infertility or by reason of age, as well as those who elect not to (738). Carpenter notes in his article Gay Marriage and Procreation that “individual gay persons can procreate, of course, through means such as artificial insemination and surrogacy arrangements” (para. 3). Carpenter also points out