Defense of Marriage Act

Cultural Relativism is in many aspects what one group of people finds acceptable may not be accepted by another. For example, the styles of clothing that are popular and considered acceptable among American women is not the same standard of what is acceptable to women whose cultural origins are of Middle East. The case of the Hmong man kidnapping and raping an American woman is one that would be considered of extreme cultural relativism. To be completely honest upon first glance I was appalled…

Clinton had to make a compromise (Belkin 2014). This compromise had to both allow people to serve regardless of their sexual orientation, yet also appease some of the concerns for those who opposed homosexuals from serving. Thus, the National Defense Authorization Act was born which stipulated that the members of the military were not able to ask, tell, pursue, or harass. Because of the rules this bill would be known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT). The military of the United States treated…

Marriage is very secrete between two people who love each other and should be respected as such. Marriage should not be limited to only a man (masculinity) and a woman (femininity) determined by a persons’ gender. Discrimination against gay marriage is the voice of ignorant thoughts about marriage. The LGBQ community has been being abused, harassed, and in many cases killed over being themselves for many decades. This life-threatening matter needs to be put to a stop. Throughout this section I…

Traditional Marriage Verses Same-Sex Couples Marriage is a legal ceremony proclaiming one’s devotion to one person for the rest of his or her life. From the very beginning, in Genesis chapter two, starting with Adam and Eve, marriage has been defined as a union of one man and one woman (Bible). Throughout the years many have come forward in their sexual preferences of having a same-sex partner, thus trying to redefine what has been customarily known as a traditional relationship. Recently, the…

19, 2013, involved many same sex couples who sued their respective states in order to legalize same sex marriage. At the time of the suits, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman. James Obergefell and John Arthur James had gone to Maryland and gotten married legally, but when they returned, their home states refused to recognize the marriages on death certificates. Mr. James had a terminally illness and died shortly after the process had begun.…

the gay rights movement. Over time, many people have spoken out against the unjust treatment of the LGBT community. They have been subject to a lot of discrimination and harassment and only in recent years has that begun to change. Recently, gay marriage has been legalized in the United States, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the fight is over. The gay rights movement has had several victories in the past, but the continuous discrimination…

In 2001, the Netherlands was the first to call a same-sex nuptial "marriage." Many people refuted the concept of same sex marriage, as it was a complete culture shock and taboo of that time. At this time, no man could have seen such an epidemic to come. From 2001 to 2015, we have gone from a single case in the Netherlands to seventeen states in the U.S allowing some form of same-sex marriage acceptance. Now, homosexuality and LGBT acceptance is a worldwide phenomenon and has been brought to…

hetersexual couples. Gender should not be covered by marriage law, as the constitution protects US citizens from gender discrimination. While love is blind, justice should be blindfolded to gender. Since legal marriage is a creation of the state, same-sex marriage should fall under the same guidelines of non-discrimination that the state holds for all other circumstances (Baird…

and change. The laws and rights they included in the constitution were for there time but they also made the smart decision and leaving some of it up for interpretation and also leeway. The debate over The Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage in the United States today relates to the debate over making the supremacy clause apart the Constitution of the United States in the 1700s for the reasons of both taking away power from the states and giving that power to the federal…

fights was the repeal of California’s Proposition 8, originally titled the “California Marriage Protection Act,” which only affected same-sex couples. Proposition 8 was a proposal for an amendment addition to the California constitution stating “only marriage between a man and a women is valid or recognized in California,” creating controversy between groups. The California Supreme Court saw that “limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples,” was violating…