Essay on Civil Rights Movement and Women´s Right

The idea of peacekeeping and the maintaining of order began centuries ago. However, long ago women were not involved in this. As women did enter within 20th century their role was limited. As time passes, change takes place.

The struggle to obtain gay and civil rights has been directly influenced by religion, either in a positive or negative way. More specifically, religion has served as a disadvantage to achieving gay rights and an advantage to those that participated in the civil rights movement. Contrary to the recent successes of the gay rights movement, there have been a lot of obstacles along the way and most of them have been due to religious beliefs and practices. Religion opposes gay rights, especially gay marriage on the basis that it immoral and unnatural, it is against the word of God and it is incompatible with religious beliefs, sacred texts, and traditions of many religious groups(Eskridge,15). On the other hand, religion more directly influences the outcome of the civil rights movement by providing a basis for unity among African Americans. The concepts and strategies of the civil rights movement alluded to Biblical stories and admonitions. The church provided a physical shelter for African Americans to congregate and organize marches, sit-ins and protests, but also a spiritual overlook that guided them to the freedom that they always deserved.

As it was in the past history, today’s denial of the freedom to marry is part of establishing a larger and oppressive social vision by the government that encompasses individual ideologies such as Biblical values. In 2004 Liberal senator Guy Barnett petitioned the

The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution form what is known as the Bill of Rights. In essence it is a summary of the basic rights held by all U.S. citizens. However, Negro citizens during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950-70’s felt this document and its mandate that guaranteed the civil rights and civil liberties of all people; were interpreted differently for people of color. The freedoms outlined in the Constitution were not enforced the same by the government of the United States for the black race as it did for the white race.

Democracy stresses the equality of all individuals and insists that all men are created equal. Democracy does not persist on an equality of condition for all people or argue that all persons have a right to an equal share of worldly goods. Rather, its concept of equality insists that all are entitled to equality of opportunity and equality before the law. The democratic concept of equality holds that no person should be held back for any such arbitrary reasons as those based on race, color, religion, or gender. This concept of equality holds that each person must be free to develop himself or herself as fully as he or she can or cares to and that each person should be treated as the equal of all other persons by the law. We have come

Marriage has always been a sacred agreement between a man and woman. However, as times have changed, our ideas involving marriage are forced to change with the times. Our country has developed throughout the years to enforce the belief that all Americans should be granted equal rights no matter what their skin color or cultural background. Granting gays the right to marry would simply be giving all people equal rights in the issue of marriage.

Among young influential minds, The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington DC. evoked foster care placement to prevent the ability of children being placed in homosexual homes. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 16 states, “Men and women of full age, without any limitation...have the right to marry...found a family... entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution…” (UDHR, 1948). Not defending the ability to same-sex marriage. In New Jersey a Methodist Ocean Grove Camp declined a Civil Union Ceremony. Religious beliefs argue that in the bible God does not promote or support gay marriage. Supporting their reasons in the bible, as stated by God, “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither...nor homosexuals...will inherit the kingdom of God.” (1st Corinthians 6:9-10 (NKJV)). Debates continue in several schools. At a school in Florida a social studies teacher posted a comment on facebook criticizing same-sex marriage. In other schools teachers dismissed students involved in homosexual relationships claiming to be uncomfortable. Therefore, many will argue the several consequences to allowing same-sex marriage, but the inability to see past the discrimination among Americans prevent a growth in our society. Positivity can be created through Americans creating a

The struggle for civil rights in the United States came to have wide repercussions worldwide from the second half of the twentieth century. This struggle had several targets, from those who opted for a peaceful demonstration to others who defended an armed struggle and a creation of a separatist black state.

“Proponents argue that same-sex couples should have access to the same marriage benefits and public acknowledgment enjoyed by heterosexual couples and that prohibiting gay marriage is unconstitutional discrimination. Opponents argue that altering the traditional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman will further weaken a threatened institution and that legalizing gay marriage is a slippery slope...” (Walker, V.R., 2013)

They want to fight for gay rights because they know that everyone is created equally. In 1989 they made partnership law that people could have the same sex couples. United states first had gay marriage in 1970 with Jake Baker and James McConnell. “ The issues of gay rights encompasses both civil rights and human rights for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.”(“Gay Rights”) “ Around the world, however, members of the LGBT community face a broader set of challenges, such as criminalization and legal sanction, including the death penalty, and extrajudicial killings.”(“Gay Rights”). “The terms gay and homosexual are roughly equivalent and refer generally to men or women who are sexually attracted to people of the same gender.”(”Gay Marriage”)“Homosexuality has existed throughout history and has enjoyed brief periods of open acceptance—even celebration—among certain cultures (for example, in ancient Greece and Rome)”(“Gay Marriage”). Bisexual is a person that are interested in both men and women. Transgender is when someone is born a sex but turns themeselves into the opposite sex .Most people in history kept their sexual preferences private.In a lot of US states the gay marriage law was

A question that some may ask is, what exactly is gay marriage? Gay marriage or same-sex marriage is the legal and social recognition that a joining (marriage) between two persons of the same social gender or biological sex takes place (Quick). As of February 9, 2015, gay marriage has been legalized in 37 American states and the district of Columbia(Marriage). While the remaining states have gay marriage bans through laws, constitutional amendments, or both. Proponents argue that same-sex couples ought to have access to the same marriage benefits and public acceptance enjoyed by heterosexual couples, and that prohibiting gay marriage is unconstitutional discrimination. Opponents argue that altering the traditional definition of marriage between a man and a woman will further weaken a threatened institution. They believe that legalizing gay marriage is a slippery slope that will lead to polygamous relationships. Gay marriage has come a long way from the 1980 's when only few Americans ever thought of marrying someone of the same sex(Wood). Same-sex couples have a history of fighting for their

Jane Austen, a well-known author in the early 1800s, “advocated for the dignity, intelligence, and basic human potential of the female sex,” but feminists think of a separate, specific event as kicking off women's rights activism (Rampton). In July of 1848, the first meeting that had ever addressed women's rights exclusively took place in Seneca Falls, New York. Over 300 men and women came to the convention, and this started the first wave of feminism in which American women fought for the right to vote. The second wave fought for freedom of sexuality while the third wave, which is currently taking place, fights against America's raunch or sexually driven culture in order to lessen the burden of oppression and “-isms” of people other than

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws” John Conyers once said. Marriage is a sacred word that has been used through centuries to unite man and woman to become one through holy matrimony. This definition has been the same throughout time until recently. Recently society has come to the understanding that a marriage between man and woman is no longer the only form of marriage that can be performed. The definition has been elongated by also saying that the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship is like that of a traditional marriage.

When it comes to marriage, it is defined as a religious institution defined by religious practices and beliefs. Boise states that, “Countries as Catholic as Spain, as different as Sweden and South Africa, and as near as Canada have embraced gay and lesbian marriage without any noticeable effect—except the increase in human happiness and social stability that comes from permitting people to marry for love. Several states—including Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont—have individually repealed their bans on same sex marriage as inconsistent with a decent respect for human rights and a rational view of the communal value of marriage for all individuals” (Boies). Giving the people the right to

Marriage is officially recognizing union of two people as partners in a personal relationship. In today’s society, gay marriage is a very stigmatized thing and I view this as a big problem. So many people, particularly in the southern United States, look at gay marriage as the root of immorality. Although gay marriage is considered non-traditional, it should be socially accepted because of the positive and given qualities of life.