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Gay Rights Movement U S Supreme
878 wordsIn the last ten years, the federal courts have turned away every claim for protection under made by lesbians and gay men. If lesbians and gay men want protection from discrimination, the courts said, they should look to legislatures, governors, city councils -- the political branches -- not to To a very large extent, the movement for lesbian and gay rights has taken the courts at has gone to the political branches for protection against discrimination. And while won every political battle in the...
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Civil Rights Laws U S Supreme Court
1,139 words1 In the Courts Discriminate Witte In the last ten years, the federal courts have turned away every claim for protection under the Constitution made by lesbians and gay men. If lesbians and gay men want protection from discrimination, the courts said, they should look to legislatures, governors, city councils the political branches not to the courts. To a very large extent, the movement for lesbian and gay rights has taken the courts at their word. The movement has gone to the political branches...
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Supreme Court Ruled Gay Rights Movement
2,831 wordsIt was Friday June 27, 1969. New Yorks crime syndicates are extorting large sums of protection money from gay bars. Any who can, or will, not pay are either persuaded or closed down after a visit from NYCPDs Public Morals Section, who enforce the Mafias stranglehold on the citys gay bars. The detectives from the Public Morals Section have no reason to believe that tonights raid on the gay Stonewall Inn will be anything but brief and businesslike. They arrest two bartenders, three drag queens, an...
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Gay Rights Movement Role Of Women
1,292 wordsThe Feminine The Feminine Mystique The Feminine Mystique is the title of a book written by Betty Friedan who also founded The National Organization for Women (NOW) to help US women gain equal rights. She describes the feminine mystique as the heightened awareness of the expectations of women and how each woman has to fit a certain role as a little girl, an uneducated and unemployed teenager, and finally as a wife and mother who is to happily clean the kitchen and cook things all day. After World...
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Gay Rights Movement Homosexual Acts
3,418 wordsDuring the last 2, 000 years of Christianity many changes have taken place in how it sees people and their place in the kingdom of God. The Church has changed its views of people of other races as inferior, or savages, in need of salvation. They have changed their views on womens equality. They are even in the midst of making amends with and reaching out to Muslims and Jews. But most modern Christians have a more hardened view of homosexuals than they ve ever had. Some see homosexuals as being i...
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