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Gay Marriage & Proposition 8?
im a senior in high school and i have an argument paper on gay marriage and adoption due tomorrow. this paper has to be about 6-8 pages in length and i only have 2. i need you guys help. im for gay marriage and i need to argue and prove my point on why its allowed. i need to know what proposition 8 is, what harvey milk did for the gay community, and any extra info that could possible help me write this paper. thanks in advance !
& when did the campaigning for gay rights start officially or when in history did we first start to see homosexuality
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- Cathy CLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Google prop 8, and also rent the film "Milk", which is about Harvey Milk. It's only a couple of years old, so you should be able to get hold of it pretty easily.
In ancient Greece, homosexuality was the norm - women were just for having children with, romance and intellectual relationships were enjoyed largely bewteen males.
- KenELv 41 decade ago
If you've only got 2 pages, it's clear that you've only touched on the subject(s). Since I have no idea what you've already written, it's going to be difficult to provide 'extra' info. Have you tried "webbing" your ideas? (organizing them graphically). I find that helps a lot.
Also, I'm pretty sure homosexuality has always existed. If you're asking a question like that then I would guess you have no idea about the gay experience at all.
The Supreme Court of California declared that denying same-sex couples the right to marry was against the law. Proposition 8 is an attempt by conservative and religious groups in California to change the state laws to prevent same sex marriage by stating only marriage by opposite sex couples can have valid marriages. A trial was held in which Judge Vaughn walker declared that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional (unfair) Here's a video that explains the verdict:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV3fkpR74Ak
and gay marriage...
- THINKABOUTITLv 51 decade ago
Homosexuality has been around for as long as Heterosexuality has been around, one interesting fact to point out is that before today's major religions like Christianity, Roman Catholism, Islam, Buddhism, spread across the world, most human cultures and civilizations around the world were actually very tolerant, and accepting of homosexuality, and in some cases some human cultures they even encouraged homosexuality over heterosexuality, in fact in the South Pacific: In many societies of Melanesia, especially in Papua New Guinea, same-sex relationships were an integral part of the culture until the middle of the 20th century. The Etoro and Marind-anim for example, even viewed heterosexuality as sinful and celebrated homosexuality instead. In many traditional Melanesian cultures a prepubertal boy would be paired with an older adolescent who would become his mentor and who would "inseminate" him (orally, anally, or topically, depending on the tribe) over a number of years in order for the younger to also reach puberty. Many Melanesian societies, however, have become hostile towards same-sex relationships since the introduction of the Religion known as Christianity by European missionaries.
The modern and current global gay rights movement officially began in many ways around the late 1960s, and that global struggle for equal rights continues to this day in the year 2011.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality#South_P... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality - ChrisBenjamin...Lv 41 decade ago
I guess you've already wrote about how unfair it is for two consenting adults to be denied marriage based upon their gender.
You could go on about how being lgb is something you're born with and not chosen, so we are being discriminated for something we cannot control.
You could say about how back in ancient times homosexuality was widely tolerated and wasn't considered a problem...
I know that didn't exactly help you but about Harvey Milk and prop. 8 just check on wikipedia or another website, the infos pretty easy to find :L
good luck, i hate massive essay's -___-'
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Propositio... - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- Anonymous5 years ago
nicely, faith ought to be positioned aside for this. the US isn't a theocracy, yet a democracy. it relatively is a social, subject, no longer a spiritual one. Many Christians act and think of that it relatively is a few form of risk on your already faltering faith. the actuality is, it is not. Marriage predates your faith. consequently, your faith can no longer declare to hold the monopoly on it. besides, if marriage replaced into in undemanding terms for the religious or Christian - then clarify why atheist get married?!? Marriage is now, continuously has been and could stay a social contruct. From a social element, to disclaim such persons the comparable rights that are afforded to a different is illegitimate and morally unjustifiable. Your faith is merely a million of hundreds presently practiced interior the international. in undemanding terms 3 of those multitude of religions fairly takes subject with gay human beings. Yours, being one in all them. i can't get right into a spiritual debate with you, as I see it to be pointless. i comprehend genuine counsel with regards to the innacuracies of your religious text fabric. It comes all the way down to this: God granted guy loose WILL to stay as guy sees in positive condition. reliable undesirable ideal or incorrect, it relatively is as much as the guy to make the techniques for their lives. To create any law that would deny somebody equivalent rights in keeping with anothers opinion is faulty. it relatively is the comparable scenrio that replaced into confronted with the Civil Rights strikes interior the 1960's. The pastime of the government is to guard all it relatively is voters, no longer dictate or alter "morality".
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Good lord, are you really THAT lazy so you can't research it yourself?
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