“Express your views on some important social issue about which you have strong views.” It is shocking to hear that “giving methadone to heroin addicts has a 97% failure rate.”(1) I was extremely surprised to hear this because I thought and was made to believe that after a few years methadone would completely stop addicts taking heroin. Infact in the same study by Scotland’s leading drug experts it emerged that there
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WHY GAY MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGALIZED. Try to imagine life in a society that refuses individuals to marry who they love. Imagine people being around their partners‚ but not having the legal rights to call them their wives or husbands. The fact of the matter is one does not have to try to imagine this because this is the state of current society. People can argue about whether church and state should be separated‚ the banning of polygamy‚ and not legalizing gay marriage‚ but the major
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Legalizing Gay Marriage What is gay marriage? Gay marriage also known as same sex marriage is an ungodly civil union between the same gender. It may also be described as a union caused by strong emotional and physical attraction of the same sex driven by worldly desires. To make gay marriage permissible by law is an affront to God and it should not be condoned in order to protect the family and the true nature of humankind. Legalizing gay marriage is truly very controversial in any order. It
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Understanding Why Gay Marriage Should Be Legal PHI103 EraniaSmallwood Instructor Elisa Paik May 31‚2013 Gay marriage should be legal because as woman and man‚ all individuals have the same right in society; because same-sex couples can constitute a good based family; because it is just a way to make official a common union nowadays‚ even with the religious issue; because it is not related to polygamy; and because love matters and it does not differ in nature according to
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September 2013 The Irrelevancy of Gender in Marriage Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal is an article written by Thomas B. Stoddard‚ an executive director of a gay rights organization called the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. In the aforementioned article‚ he painfully illustrates the injustices and imbalance of the typical “traditional marriage” and its impact on average‚ devoted homosexual couples. More than just state his opinion on marriage between homosexuals‚ he emphasizes the injustice
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Exercise Revision: Against Gay Marriage In the article “Against Gay Marriage‚” the author‚ William J. Bennett‚ attempts to sway his readers against the legalization of gay marriage. After presenting the issue‚ he makes it palpable that he is against it‚ and his negative tone toward this topic is apparent in his opening sentence: “We are engaged in a debate which‚ in a less confused time‚ would be considered pointless and even oxymoronic: the question of same-sex marriage‚” (409). Bennett is assuming
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The time has come to legalise gay marriage in Australia. Gay marriage is marriage between two people of the same gender. I believe all Australians have the right to be able to get married despite what gender‚race and religion they’re. A basic human right is that every grown up has the right to marry but why is that only that a man and a woman can do so not man and man or woman and woman.Why is it that?If you love someone it shouldn’t matter what gender they’re but somehow it dose. At the moment
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Controversy paper 1st draft Controversy : Gay marriage The forms of marriage vary and always have varied historically and culturally. And now we are at the moment where we see other big change coming. Same sex marriage is that change that has already started happening in our society. There are a lot of perspectives on this issue and gay marriage is among one of the most controversial topics that the United States talks about. One view on gay marriage is the protection of one’s unalienable rights
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Is Gay Marriage Ruining the "Sanctity" of the Institution? Marriage is traditionally viewed as the legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife. However‚ what happens when those two people are two men or two women? This topic of gay marriage has been a major issue in the United States over the past few years. It has raised several political debates as well as other minor arguments throughout the United States and around the world. Until recently‚ homosexual couples in the United States
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Gay marriage vs. Civil unions People often wonder why same-sex couples can’t be satisfied with just civil union. They said this because they don’t really understand the difference. Gay marriage and civil unions differ in various ways. To start off‚ civil union lacks the automatic protections and peace of mind that marriage confers. Secondly‚ marriages are recognized worldwide‚ while civil union exists only in the state that the couple resides. The significant difference between gay marriage and
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