In Sterba’s Subjectivism in Ethics how should we as individuals question some strong ethical questions. In the reading Sterba uses the example of gay rights. Is it okay, or is it wrong. With many people going to both sides of whether it is write or wrong. Some think that there is nothing wrong with the LGBTQ community while others are totally against it, and we think of it based on our moral judgments. We as mortals just assume what is best in our opinion but there is not right or wrong answer…
displeasing and/or unacceptable in our society. For example, in places such as high schools and colleges there has been uprising debates on the accepting of transgenders, (or persons transitioning but already identifying themselves as the opposite sex of which they were born) privileges to use the restroom of their choice. Although transgenders are protected under “Title IX” meaning that “any school that receives funding from the federal government must treat those who identify as “transgender”…
What are you, Democrat or republican? There are only 59 % of the world’s people who are involved in the political parties. 31 % of the 59 % is Democrat, 28% is Republican. What does it mean to be a Democrat or Republican? A Republican feels there should be no abortion, nor Gay marriage. While Democrats feel that Gay marriage is acceptable. They also feel abortion is okay because it’s the women’s’ body and they can do what they want. Republicans and Democrats are apart of…
Throughout the article author Jon Kamp discusses how the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system is adjusting to the bathroom ordinance and opposing views many individuals have about the very debatable bathroom bill. The article first begins by examining the legal battle between the state and Justice Department over the underlying issues with the law. Many in favor of the law, such as former Governor Pat McCrory, argue that it protects the privacy of transgender individuals. Others that stand with…
found the treatment too harmful to continue”(3.5). It is a stretch to say that anything good can come out of “conversion therapy” but survivors have reported that it “helped them come out of the closet, feel less alone, leave religion, or meet a same-sex…
attorney.” (Kazyak 2015). A lot of these mothers looked online and did independent searches, but for second parent adoption, it was very difficult for some parents to find information because of the information being withheld from parents who were same sex; for instance a couple in Iowa was unable to do a second parent adoption even after Iowa had passed laws that allow homosexual marriage. Discrepancies like those that this couple faced, can cause a lot of stress on the prospective family, and…
able to remain impartial towards the LGBT homeless youth, and provide necessary help despite professing a disparate ideology? In a scenario when an organization shares a convincement that any kind of behavior directed toward a person of one’s own sex should not be publicly approved, this establishment might not wish to recognize the needs of the LGBT youth, and in consequence treat them with a dose of disdain. This fallacy may also result into imposing conversion therapies on LGBT young…
I’m Gay. I always knew I was a little different but I could never figure it out. I finally figured out I was gay and I thought nothing about it, but other saw me as corrupt, a sinner, an abomination. Just walking around people would give me looks like i’m a freak and I just held my head low. I moved schools and they didn’t know I was gay so I decided to keep it that way. I bottled up my true self and emotions and became a shy quiet person. I tried to be an outcast shielding myself from people,…
types of marriage between two people. Family has an impact on marriage as well, as people will be impacted by their family on who they marry. Traditional marriage rights apply to heterosexual couples, especially in today’s society, more and more same sex marriages are arising. 1 In the video, “Two Gay Dads, Two Kids, A Normal Family” explains the…
In the United States today there are 1.6 to 2.8 million homeless people under the age of 18 and 20 to 40 percent of them are members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Intersex Asexual (LGBTQIA) community. Society has begun to open up to the idea of being transgender, gay, lesbian, or bisexual with role models such as Lavern Cox, Caitlyn Jenner, Jane Lynch, and Neil Patrick Harris. When kids see people in the media being accepted, it allows them to identify with these role models and…