Rather than rejecting scriptural authority, she appeals to logic, rejecting too strict interpretations of scriptural rules and commandments. Although it seems that the Wife is trying to assert female dominance over men, what she really wants is to bring men and women to a more balanced level of power (Blake, 1993)
Cons of Abortion After three decades of legalized abortion in the United States, it is still a controversial topic (Earll, 2003)
An unborn baby is a meaningful human life that is invaluable. After conception, no event occurs in the development of the fetus that indicates a change in the fetus from being inhuman to becoming human (Foster, 1985)
" Basically, the majority of public opposition to abortion is based on the notion that it is morally wrong to kill a pre-born baby -- the end result of abortion. The abortion controversy is one of the most divisive and controversial issues of this century, which has become a legal and political power struggle that has yet to find a permanent resolution (Garlikov, 2002)
Furthermore, that culture did not tolerate such a belief that women were the victims for irresponsible actions; instead they believed women should be held accountable, along with the male, for the act of conception and thus the birth of a child." When abortion began to be seen as the right of 'choice' for women, regardless of consequence or prior actions, the debate no longer involved concern responsibility or accountability (DePlato, 2003)
One study shows, "Another telling survey result involved the percentage of people who said they had a close friend or relative who was gay. Around 40% of respondents said this was the case, and Powell thinks this number would have been around 20% 10 years ago" (Powell, 2004)
As more people admit to the world they are gay or lesbian, and the fear of HIV and AIDS continues to grow, it seems certain that more same-sex couples will seek marriage. One expert writes of gay families, "What unifies such families is their need to contend with the particular array of psychic, social, legal, practical, and even physical challenges to their very existence that institutionalized hostility to homosexuality produces" (Stacey, 1998, p
'They say a high majority of gay people choose to be gay, and they can change through conversion therapy. That means there is no place in the Mormon Church for gay people'" (Woog, 1999, p
e., a disfavored social condition that was contagious) remained" (Yoshino, 2002)
Under this doctrine, services, facilities and public accommodations have been permitted to be separated by race, on the circumstance that the superiority of each group's public facilities was to remain equal. This phrase has been recently used by supporters of same-sex marriage to argue for full marriage rights for same-sex couples, in lieu of civil unions, which is often the suggested alternative (Hirsch, 2004)
According to this dispute, a key victory of the civil-rights movement may have been deficient in certain kinds of procedural legitimacy, but it was nevertheless right, and is today commonly approved, because it is seen as a higher moral legitimacy coming from its justification of the essential principle of equality. Therefore the judicial victories that the same-sex marriage faction seeks would own the same kind of legitimacy as the Brown decision, which nobody would refute is one of the finest accomplishments of American jurisprudence (Holloway, 2009)
The essence of their argument can be found in the equal protection clause (14th amendment) to the U.S. Constitution (Lind, 1995)
5 of the Declaration of Rights, to the California Constitution, which provides that only marriage between a man and a woman is legitimate or recognized in California. By limiting the acknowledgment of marriage to opposite-sex couples, the proposition reversed the California Supreme Court's ruling of In re Marriage Cases that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to get married (Newman, 2010)
The California Supreme Court describes marriage as a union completely approved and favored by the community. Where the state has accorded representative sanction to a relationship and provided special benefits to those who enter into that relationship, our courts have insisted that withholding that status necessitates powerful justifications and may not be capriciously denied (Olson, 2010)
The wording of Proposition 8 was exactly the same as Proposition 22, which had passed in 2000 and, as an ordinary statute, had been nullified by the State Supreme Court in 2008. California's State Constitution put Proposition 8 into instant effect the day after the election (Scotto, 2010)
The gendered roles of a family define the "ie" of the Japanese family. The exemplified execution of the household duties among members of a family attests to the social construction of the "ie" by the Japanese families (Fujimura-Fanselow, Kumiko 65)
" The continuity of the family structure signifies the ability of the family members in working together and playing their roles within a family set up. However, the wake of the World War II saw the abolition of the "ie" as the legal unit of the Japanese family (Helm, Leslie 299)
The constant changes of the Japanese family structure, roles, and marriage system as explained in the nuclearization theory attests to the challenges most face in understanding their family and marriage life. Demographic transitions witnessed over the last four decades also compound to the challenges people encounter in the quest of understanding the family and marriage structure of the Japanese people (Kumagai 87)
Different generations of the "ie" had specified roles as specified by the Confucian principles of benevolence and loyalty. For example, the young generations perceived their duty as loyalty to their parents for providing them with benevolence (Peterson 187)
The traditional view of the structure of the family in Japan shares great similarities with the view of most of the countries globally. As such, the similarities translate to the inability of the family structures to conform to the reality of the needs of the family (Takemaru, Naoko 145)