Delaney Day
Daniels, R. S. “The Evolution of Attitudes on Same‐Sex Marriage in the United States, 1988–2014.” Social Science Quarterly, vol. 100, no. 5, 2019, pp. 1651-1663.
Kinsella, Chad J., Colleen McTague, and Kevin Raleigh. “Geographic Polarization, Partisan Voting, and the Battle Over Same‐Sex Marriage within the Culture War.” Geographical Review, vol. 109, no. 2, 2019, pp. 224-248.
“Gay Couple in Wedding Announcements.” Thought Equity Motion Collections, 2010. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC4205128447/OVIC?u=ucinc_main&sid=OVIC&xid=f62abb0b. Accessed 10 Mar. 2020.
“Religious Freedom Versus Rule of Law.” R&E Newsweekly, 2015. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CT3208607293/OVIC?u=ucinc_main&sid=OVIC&xid=e987b44a. Accessed 10 Mar. 2020.
These articles have only improved and made me feel even stronger for gay people and their struggles. The text was published recently and that shows and tells me that here in 2020 we are still dealing with these problems that honestly shouldn’t be a problem.
Gay Couple in Wedding Announciments
Daniel and Steven are a gay couple who have been together for 17 years. They are the first same-sex couple to be featured in The New York Times wedding announcements in September of 2002. The happy couple talked about how big of a deal this was in 2002 and how in a few years it would just be ‘no big deal.’ The couple had met through an ad in a Washington newspaper. This couple has to struggle with every day life things just as a “normal” couple does. These gentleman had a medical emergency but could not give his partner his power of attorney because their marriage was not accepted in their state. Here is a direct quote from Daniel and Steven, “We have a civil union, which on paper, should afford us all the rights and benefits of marriage within the state, but it’s being denied in the state. There are all of these examples. So a couple of weeks ago, I had emergency same-day surgery. Nothing life threatening. I needed to have my tonsils removed. I had a bad throat infection. And what did we do? We went home, not so I could freak out and plan and call anyone, so I could get a copy of my health care proxy, my power of attorney. I don’t know that some medical practitioner won’t try to find my parents to make a decision when Steven’s right there because he’s not regarded as my spouse and that just feels so incredibly unfair.”
This situation is completely unfair. This couple is just like every other couple. The state if they choose to not “accept” their marriage then they can at least respect the couple enough to allow them to have a say in life or death, medical, or family matters etc… There are other ways for same sex married couples to have the same privilege’s as a straight married couple. No that sounds harsh and unfair and every couple should have the same right, but that’s sadly not how the world works just yet.
I believe that Daniel and Steven are a lovely couple. Yes some people may struggle with how they chose to live their lives, but at the end of the day it is their life and they should be able to live it as they please. You can’t help who you love but you can control how you love them! People are still so caught up in this black or white world that they can’t move passed it and see beyond that. They might be ‘gay’ but it doesn’t change if they are a good person or not and they definitely shouldn’t be treated any less because of who they are choosing to love.
“Marriage Protection Amendment.” Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources, edited by K. Lee Lerner, et al., Gale, 2006, pp. 67-70. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link-gale-com.proxy.libraries.uc.edu/apps/doc/CX2688300039/OVIC?u=ucinc_main&sid=OVIC&xid=25c93821. Accessed 11 Mar. 2020.
During the 1980s and 1990s, federal courts began examining state statutes dealing with homosexuality. There were laws passed the help them from employment disgrimanitation. There were also 3 cases in Hawaii of same sex people trying to get married and was denied and it was sent to the supreme court. The ruling was that “U.S. law requires states to recognize legal marriages performed in other states; such a ruling would implicitly legalize same-sex marriage throughout the United States.” In 1996, the U.S. Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act.
People took action and made cases that were valid. These cases were so strong that they were sent to the supreme court. Laws were made Bills were passed. The people who were fighting for their rights were not giving up without a fight. There were legislative decesions made about gay marriage. People were fighting with laws and “haters” for a long long time, but they did not give up.
This article was unbiased. The writer simply just wrote about the facts. I believe that these people have every right to fight for themselves. If they don’t do it nobody will and they will never get anywhere with is issue. This same sex marriage is a real issue and all they want is to have the same rights as a straight couple. This article discusses how many different hoops were jumped through to get some type of equality.
“Gay Couple in Wedding Announcements.” Thought Equity Motion Collections, 2010. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC4205128447/OVIC?u=ucinc_main&sid=OVIC&xid=f62abb0b. Accessed 10 Mar. 2020.
“Religious Freedom Versus Rule of Law.” R&E Newsweekly, 2015. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CT3208607293/OVIC?u=ucinc_main&sid=OVIC&xid=e987b44a. Accessed 10 Mar. 2020.
It definitely made me think more about the sources and a bit more critical of the reading. It made me think more because I really looked into what the author was saying and I looked at the evidence a bit more in-depth.
“Warren Jokes Men Who Think Marriage is between One Man and One Woman should ‘just Marry One Woman’.” CNN Wire, 2019.
“Same-Sex Marriage Activists Flood Belfast to Demand Change.” The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), 2018.
“CAYMAN ISLANDS – COURT – Couple to Challenge Gay Marriage Ban in Cayman Islands.” CANA News, 2018.
“Navratilova Suggests Court Takes Boat in Future.” The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Australia), 2017, pp. 24.
“Same-Sex Marriages; Letters to the Editor.” Daily Telegraph (London, England), 2019, pp. 17.
Heim, Joe. “Priest Assails Decision on Same-Sex Union Announcements.” The Washington Post, 2019.
CHAMBERS, GEOFF. “Same-Sex Activists ‘a Threat to Faith-Based Schools’.” The Australian (National, Australia), 2019, pp. 4.
“Scott Morrison Claims He Now Backs Same-Sex Marriage — but Dodges Question on Hell; Prime Minister Says He ‘always Supports the Law’ when Asked if He Still Opposes Same-Sex Marriage.” The Guardian (London, England), 2019.
NIALL, JAKE. “Accept Arena’s Name: Gay MP.” The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia), 2020, pp. 42.
KOZIOL, MICHAEL. “Archbishop Says Same-Sex Supporters Not Welcome.” The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia), 2019, pp. 12.
SPITS, SCOTT. “Sedgman Takes Pride in Family’s Same-Sex Stance Opposite Court.” The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia), 2020, pp. 40.
“Lord Who Loves to Shock is Royal Gay Pioneer; First Member of the Royal Family Married to Someone of the Same Sex Admits His Relatives ‘Don’t Talk about it’.” Daily Telegraph (London, England), 2019, pp. 3.
writing research-based arguments
Topic: Who you Love
Issue: People can’t marry who they want to because some people still believe it is wrong and won’t marry them.
wikipedia; same sex marriage, marriage equality, Same-sex marriage in the United States expanded from one state in 2004 to all fifty states in 2015 through various state court rulings, state legislation, direct popular votes, and federal court rulings. ; tide of public opinion; The most prominent supporters of same-sex marriage are human rights and civil rights organizations as well as the medical and scientific communities, while the most prominent opponents are religious groups. ; supreme court rulings; A study of nationwide data from January 1999 to December 2015 revealed that the establishment of same-sex marriage is associated with a significant reduction in the rate of attempted suicide among children, with the effect being concentrated among children of a minority sexual orientation, resulting in approximately 134,000 fewer children attempting suicide each year in the United States.
google scholar; religion and public opinion; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1540-6237.2006.00384.x
“Waking Up and Taking Charge” by Anya Kamenetz. This article talks about college students and how we can take control of our lives/money back. It is very much involved around money and how college students come out of school with so much debt. The author gives helpful suggestions about how we can take the control back and what action we can take. She talks about how most college students aren’t actually doing anything and they aren’t making changes when they should be taking action. She also talks about how people in Canada and in America are taking control of the situation and actually doing something about their debt. Now within my essay I am going to refer back to myself and I will state my own opinions.
Kamenetz is a factual writer. She is very forth giving about the information she has and she has information to back up the information. She clearly has done her research about college debt and what we as college students or parents can do to help lower or pay off our debt. She talks about how we should take charge of our student loans by forming a PAC. She puts readers to ease when she talks about how if you have debt you don’t need to worry because there are ways to get out of it. She brings facts into the article when she starts talking about Canada and everything they have done and how they aren’t just done yet, that there is still more to come. She mentions a few programs that have been successful and that have been put out there for students to use. She is giving so many different resources and I believe that if used in the right way can be very beneficial.
I think the author has a great idea with joining a PAC. I think when Ferguson says “We’re trying to find a way to support mainstream, bipartisan, middle-of-the-road issues that affect all of us on a day-to-day basis,” that he truly want to help everyone because, he understands the struggle with debt and that joining the PAC is allowing him to not only help himself but others. I believe that a student run PAC would be very beneficial and would help students tremendously with student loans and debt. I go to school on a very good scholarship due to my active role in the Ohio National Guard. Now the guard helps with my schooling but somethings I still have to pay out of my own pocket and no it is not a lot but it is still quite a bit. Now for people who chose a different path in life that is perfectly okay but they might struggle a bit more with having to pay for schooling. I feel that those people shouldn’t to suffer in debt and that there should be something else for them, and Kamenetz is giving it to them in this article. She is giving them a life line that they can chose to grab onto and make their lives a whole lot easier having no debt because, they are choosing to do something about it.
I personally like this author. I like her style of writing and I also like how she articulates herself and connects with the audience. She gets her points across without making you feel like this is your only option. She gives her suggestions as to what her research has proven successful and from there allows the reader to for their own opinion, but she doesn’t do this without her facts and that’s what I like. She gives the facts and isn’t pressuring you into anything. She is however persuading the readers because after reading her article she wants us to go out and take action and do something about our debt.
The author is a reasonable reasoner because she isn’t arguing for herself she is doing it for the readers because she is thinking about them and not herself and just her points. She wants to help her audience. She is also reasonable because she in very informative about her content. She knows what she is talking about and she is able to articulate it very well to her audience. She also is fair, she knows that her way isn’t the only correct way and she mentions it but she is critical on herself in that way but that was all that I was able to pick apart in her writing, so I don’t think she is very self critical but she does make it a point to say something. I believe that the information she provided was good but I wanted more. She gave the readers just enough information to calm their nerves about debt and that there are ways put of it but, she didn’t give me personally enough details. She talks about PAC and VA21 but I would have liked to know a bit more about it. I know that this is an article and if I truly wanted more information that I can research it on my own after reading the article but, I feel as if that is the authors job to give me that much information that I shouldn’t have to research it on my own.
In conclusion I believe that Anya Kamenetz is a good writer and gives the readers the facts. I think she writes well to her audience and that her information will be able to help a lot of college students and parents. She is well informed and isn’t just writing to make her point but to help her audience the best way she knows how.
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