Opposing Viewpoints Paper: Same-Sex Marriage Equality Introduction If you had a child that grew up to love someone of the same sex‚ and wanted you to acknowledge their love for each other by being at their wedding‚ would you? Unfortunately‚ many Americans would sadly answer no to this question even when it involves their own child and his or her biological makeup. Marriage has been traditionally viewed as a religious and legal commitment between a man and a woman‚ as well as the ultimate expression
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Pellissippi State Community College | Homosexuality | Same-sex marriage: A true social problem | | Tabitha K. Robbins | 3/28/2013 | Author Note This paper was prepared for Sociology 1020‚ Section WW1‚ taught by Professor Marsha Hupfel. In today’s society‚ Gays/Lesbians are fighting for equality rights. For the past several years’ politics‚ religious groups‚ and individual society has battled the legalization of same-sex marriages with some success and some setbacks. States currently
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Copyright © 2003 by Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance Originally written: 2003-JUL-10 Latest update: 2003-OCT-8 Author: B.A. Robinson http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_marint.htm#menu Twenty Arguments against Same-Sex Marriage (SSM) and Rebuttals: Overview: Polls in the late 1990s found that the topic of greatest concern for conservative Christians‚ and for many other North Americans‚ was that gays and lesbians might achieve rights and protections in law that had previously
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Same sex marriage is marriage between two people of the same gender. Same sex marriage has only been a public matter since the 1900’s when two University of Missouri men applied for a marriage license and the clerk declined them because they were the same sex. “In 1971 two students from the University of Minnesota filled out an application for a marriage license and were denied by the clerk because the couple consisted of two members of the same sex”. Since 2001‚ states and 10 countries including
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Topic: Should same-sex marriage be legal in Vietnam? Currently‚ same-sex marriage is not legal in Vietnam‚ nor is any other forms of same-sex union recognized. In the late 2010‚ a wedding ceremony video of two women in Vietnam was posted on the Internet‚ causing a stir in the online community and the public. This is the first same-sex wedding ever organized publicly in Vietnam. Some people show positive attitude towards this event‚ saying it was “a good sign for an opener society” (Hoang‚ 2011)
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Same Sex Couples: Marriage‚ Families‚ and Children In deciding who should be entitled to marry or have their marriages recognized‚ it is useful to consider current law regulating who may marry. Under California law: Marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between a man and a woman‚ to which the consent of the parties capable of making that contract is necessary....16 No particular form for the ceremony of marriage is required ... but the parties shall declare
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President Barrack Obama made history this week by being the first sitting US president to explicitly express support for same-sex marriage. "It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married‚" he said in an interview with ABC News. The statement came a day after North Carolina voted to support an amendment that ruled out gay marriage. Gay rights groups cheered on Obama’s landmark statement‚ while conservatives denounced it. Will Obama’s statement
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SOC 103Same-Sex marriage some say that marriage is a sacred thing. Some think it ’s only words. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Why change the laws? What could possibly be the point? If one law is changed then people are going to try to argue more and more laws‚ and those will change to. Pretty soon there will be no laws. "The public meaning of marriage is not something that each new generation is free to redefine."(Stanton‚ 3) Same-sex marriage should be prohibited. Marriage is meant for
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Investigating a Contemporary Issue Contemporary issue: Same Sex Marriage Marriage is both universal and central. All across our country‚ in every town and city‚ every social class‚ every race and ethnicity‚ every religion or non-religion‚ people get married. To be told “You cannot get married” is thus to be excluded from one of the defining rituals of civilised Australian society. Homosexuality and the laws regarding same-sex marriage are issues that previous generations have refused to acknowledge
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5 Word count: 1816 For a number of years same sex marriage has been the topic of debate for many reasons and throughout many groups of individuals. In the past 12 months the topic of same sex marriage in Australia has become even more significant especially with more and more countries around the world legalising same sex marriage‚ with New Zealand‚ Australia’s neighbour country becoming the latest country to legalise same sex marriage. Gay rights activists around the world have also brought
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