argumentative/ persuasive task Topic: It’s time to legalise gay marriage in Australia Purpose: To persuade audience that it is time to legalise gay marriage in Australia Audience: mature‚ older audience A battle has been in progress for years over whether equal rights and equal protection against discrimination should be extended to homosexual unions. Recently this has expanded into the area of marriage. The topic of homosexual marriage is a topical issue. There is absolutely no legal logical
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Political Culture Wars: My Gay Marriage Growing up as a gay Latino‚ I have always had conflicts with my own racial and religious culture. Marriage never seemed an option for me until I met and fell in love with my husband. As explained in American Politics Today‚ D.T. Canon and W.T. Bianco note‚ “Gay marriage has been controversial and many states have passed laws and constitutional amendments defining marriage as between a man and a woman (p. 12).” I never thought that‚ later in my life‚ whom I
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Angela Williams When The Right is Wrong: Gay Marriage Should be Legalized Should gays be allowed to be legally married and have that marriage recognized on a national level? This is an issue that is making headlines across the country and is the topic of conversations on Capitol Hill and Facebook forums‚ alike. Those who oppose gay marriage give a vast amount of reasons that range from the conservative to the crazy‚ from the religious to the ridiculous. However‚ these reasons do not give anyone
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They’re kind‚ respectful and on top of all that they’re good parents. My gay neighbors that is. Their gayness makes me sick and they have the nerve to want to get married! First we allow interracial marriage. Now they want gay marriage!! What’s next? Human animal marriage across the country?? I think not. If we want to keep our country normal gays should not be allowed to get married. Why should we let two people that love each other get married? It’s just not right! The only reasons why
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Although the world has developed-and is still developing- controversial topics like gay marriage are still prominent is today’s society. William J. Bennett‚ an influential figure in America‚ strongly voiced out his standpoint on the topic of same-sex marriage through his article “Against Gay Marriage.” His concerns persistently argue that the rights for gay marriages are “pointless and even oxymoronic” (Bennett‚ 2011‚ p.409). One does not need to fully agree with his assertions to acknowledge the
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Should gay marriage be legalised in Australia Hello fellow citizens of Australia I’m Bill Shorten leader of the Labour party and we support gay marriage. Now speaking of gay marriage this is the reason as to why I’m here with you today to discuss the issue of ’should gay marriage be legalised in Australia’ and as I just mentioned imam in favour of allowing homosexuals to marry legally. You see being a homosexual is not something you can control it is simply something you are‚ it is like if I were
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“ A Tradition of Change” Critique of: William Bennett‚ “Against Gay Marriage” Throughout the course of American history‚ every generation has built upon the foundations of freedom that were constructed by their ancestors before them. During the 1920’s‚ women finally earned the right to vote‚ and in the 1960’s‚ blacks finally gained their hard fought equality. Our current generations task‚ is to strive to obtain equal rights for homosexuals so that our children and grandchildren can live in
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support gay marriage‚ I do believe that domestic partnership should remain allowable‚ giving a person the right to date and share their lives with whomever they so choose‚ but the sanctity of marriage should remain exclusively between one man and one woman. II. Body paragraph #1 – Topic Sentence #1 Before the passing of Prop 8‚ California was only the second state to allow same-sex marriage. In fact up until 2004 same-sex couples couldn’t wed anywhere in the country. Many gay couples
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Gay Marriages should be Legalized The government says that every citizen of the United States shall receive equal rights. Then‚ why did they pass the Defense of Marriage Act? The Defense of Marriage Act prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages; in my opinion this act is unjust and immoral because it restricts the rights of gay and lesbian citizens. Many of the reasons offered for opposing gay marriage are based on the assumption that gays have a choice
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The issue of same-sex marriage has quite polarized society. There are those who are in favour of total equality of right for homosexuals‚ and there are those who are completely against the presence of homosexuality in our society. Very rarely does one find middle ground. It may seem difficult to find a stance on this issue that is not rife with hypocrisy and doublespeak. Having researched the conservative arguments against gay marriage ‚ it has become apparent that all of the non-religious arguments
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