Same-Sex Marriages

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Defines Gay & Lesbian marriages. Discusses issues involved and arguments against & in favor of same-sex marriage. Discrimination against homosexuals. Civil marriage beneficiaries. Pressures of social conformity. Cites studies on the effects on children of same-sex marriages.

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"This research examines the subject of gay and lesbian marriages. The research will set forth a working definition of the subject and then make a balanced presentation of the issue fronts involved in advocacy and opposition to it, with a view, however, toward demonstrating the basis for support for such marriages as a matter of sanctioned public policy.
Background for discourse of same-sex marriage can be dated from 1969, the year of the now-famous Stonewall riot in New York City, which fostered a generation of social activism and group advocacy on the part of homosexuals. Massachusetts US Representative Barney Frank, a self-identified homosexual, has been quoted on the issue in this way: "I don't understand how it hurts anybody else if two people want to be legally . . . responsible for each other" (Pearcey & Colson, 1996, p. 104)."

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