Gay Sex Scandals Involving Politicians

The majority of the time a conservative politician is talking about same-sex marriage, they almost always refer to The Bible as their argument. The book of Leviticus is a notorious reference when it comes to criticizing same-sex marriage. The books states that "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: ... Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman. It is an abhorrence" (Leviticus 18: 1, 2, 23). Since it is stated in this book, many Americans believe that because weddings are religious ceremonies that there should be no homosexuality involved. There is a huge flaw in this argument is in the Bill of Rights, Amendment I states that: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" (The Bill of Rights). There is no established religion within the United States, and there never will be, as long as that law stands. Marriage is a union of two people recognized by the state - a civil right. It is ordinary for a church to be aware of the ceremony as well; however, when a couple gets married in a city hall, the marriage is not recognized by a church. If two people are married by a judge, the marriage is not recognized by a church. So in all reality, same sex marriages would not have to be acknowledged by any religious group in order to be legal. A person who uses things such as The

Public humiliation has changed immensely weighing heavily on the creation of the internet introducing the idea of online cyberbullying as opposed to scaffolding in a town square. As modern society revels in putting people on a public pedestal, the scaffold that Hester Prynne is put onto marks her as no longer a person with feelings, just as a negative figure people look upon to make themselves feel higher. After the news broke of Monica Lewinsky’s scandal, people no longer recognized her as a young adult who makes mistakes, but was treated like a person with no emotions and incapable of being affected by her mistakes. As the story went on throughout the internet, she was only represented as a person through the mistake she made just as Hester Prynne was recognized for the crime she committed. Publicly shaming Hester Prynne and Monica Lewinsky is and was a way for people to make themselves feel better and place themselves higher in society.

Historically, the conservative values conveyed by many Texans have shown disapproval for change and differences. Amongst the list of social and political views conservatives have disapproved of in the past would be civil rights, women’s rights, and gay rights. All three are issues of which are still under conflict and disapproval. With this said, gay rights are the most recent issue that has shaken the traditionalist views upheld in Texas. To state the opposition of gay rights, conservatives in general do not support the relationships shared between homosexuals. They deem it as unnatural or immoral and therefore, it is seen as wrong in their eyes. In addition to the conservative claims as homosexuality being unnatural, the traditional culture does not take too kindly to change, which is exactly what began as soon as the Court’s ruling was made. In conclusion, it is the traditional political culture such as the conservative ideology shared by many and the opposition to change that has affected Texas in

The topic of queer community has always been a complicated and delicate subject to many conservatives in the state of Texas. In fact, a news article from 2009 discusses how a homosexual teacher in the outskirts of Dallas was ridiculed for assigning an essay to his students about the acceptance of all people, including Homosexuals (PR Newswire Association LLC). Ridiculous accusations started surfacing about the teacher such as him sodomizing one of his students, or he was having an affair with a well-known lawyer. Ivan brings in a quote from the woman she interviews about gay bashing in Midland Texas. The woman states that “there’s not a gay in Midland who would come out of the closet for fear people would think they’re a Democrat” (Ivan 784). People in Texas don’t want others to wrongfully stereotype them into something they are

Since the scandal at Penn State a lot of things have been happening around the case. For starters, Jerry Sandusky was charged with 45 counts of child molestation. Up until the verdict, Sandusky had told the press and others that he had loved the kids which was said to have been taken out of context. After being charged with the 45 counts of child molestation, Sandusky was given no less than 30, but no more than 60 years in prison for the crimes committed. The case at this moment has cost the school right at a quarter of a billion dollars, half of that being in lawyers fees alone. The university has settled with 33 people over allegations they were sexually abused by Sandusky, and has made total payments to them of $93 million (2017). The administrators

I think that now that marriage equality is passed and happening that more people will come out with their opinions and beliefs instead of hiding and that will shift the political morals as well. A majority of the young adult population and younger are seeing more and more things in the media that incorporate the LGBTQ community and portray that it is okay to be different. Someone once told me that they hated that they couldn’t turn the television of for their children without seeing some kind of LGBTQ relationship on it. I believe that now kids do not have to live in fear in Texas due to this change and they eventually be open minded about some things that previous generations were so closeminded

Legislatures from Arkansas and Oklahoma banned gay and lesbians from being able to teach at schools only because they were gay and lesbian and did not hold up to the standards of those legislatures. Not only was it Arkansas and Oklahoma that decided to ban them but the senator who had an ambition to become governor of California thought that he could pass a campaign that also withheld the rights to gays and lesbians from also teaching at the schools of many children in schools. It had turned out that he was in the lead of winning the most votes and was going to actually win. But with the help of many Republicans and Democrats that were against the campaign for the gay and lesbian rights, thought that it was wrong and were very hesitant on trying to stop it. Many conservatives turned to get help from former governor Ronald Reagan who was applying to become president. Ronald Reagan was very much against the thought of that and had advocated against that campaign although many politicians had told him that going against the governor of California might be suicidal, he still wanted to go against

The year 2012 marked a year that the lives of Sandusky, Spanier, Schultz, Curley, Paterno would forever change (Bohm & Haley, 2014). The sexual crimes committed by Jerry Sandusky were heinous, especially since his victims were children. What is even worse is the fact that four prominent members of Penn State University were aware of allegations, yet decided to withhold information.

married congressman. The case then took the back burner of news media as the events of

Scandals from the Senate happen often and infringe upon representation. These scandals emerge from Senators breaking or not following certain rules of becoming a Senator. The types of scandals involved in the senate have various ways of undermining the acute portion of representation that is noted within the confines of becoming a Senator. Although the appointment process has proven, as previously

Accoding to Wikipedia it quotes “The Libertarian Party supported gay rights from its founding in 1971. Its first platform, in 1972, said, "We hold that no action which does not infringe the rights of others can properly be termed a crime. We favor the repeal of all laws creating "crimes without victims" now incorporated in Federal, state and local laws—such as laws on voluntary sexual relations, drug use, gambling,

Over the last 70 years, we have seen LGBT people in Nazi concentration camps, vilified while wasting away in hospital beds with AIDS, prohibited from serving their country, and forced by American lawmakers into danger, all for evangelical and conservative fear and guilt—pull back the sheepskin drape these wolves have placed on their motives, and heed President Lincoln’s centuries-old words from a near-bygone era of truly moral Republican politicians: "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain

I agree with your point that Hannah is a good mother, however I think it must be considered that she really wasn’t accepting of his newly-admitted sexuality. As seen by the line, “You’re ridiculous. You’re being ridiculous” (Kushner 82), said by Hannah in response to Joe’s confession, she really wasn’t comfortable with and/or accepting of the fact that Joe finally embraced his true sexuality. Furthermore, as you had pointed out, she did move to New York, but I feel that the reasons for her actions are debatable—on the one hand, she may have moved to help, but on the other, she also may have done so to essentially “talk Joe out of” these claims that he is homosexual. However, Hannah possessed a very different attitude in her relationship with

As in the case of all of the articles I examined for this analytical essay, the authors avoided insensitive language and euphemisms, which might have allowed them to construct their arguments in a less-than-candid way. My sense is that, based on the cohort of Newsweek articles, the magazine’s authors and editors do care about marriage equality and social justice, but they are influenced by the dominant culture in perhaps believing that an issue is not really legitimate until it has been raised by heterosexual males. Gavin Newsom, especially, is given a lot of national coverage about marriage equality, despite his not being an LGBT person. Newsweek does a poor job of consulting members of the LGBT community about issues that directly affect them. Maybe the magazine’s writers just are not comfortable enough to interject the thoughts, opinions, and arguments of LGBT people directly into their articles, thus [possibly] unintentionally reinforcing norms of heterosexual male power.

In 1952, John Rigas purchased his own cable company. By the late 1990's, he had turned it into the sixth largest cable company in the United States with 5.6 million customers. The business was always run as a family style business which led to fraudulent acts among family members and upper level executives. The family has been accused of stealing $3.1 billion from Adelphia and is now facing criminal charges. Adelphia was forced to file chapter 11 bankruptcy and as of April 24, 2004, the new board of directors made the decision to break up the company and sell it. The Adelphia scandal is morally wrong because the Rigas family coerced and exploited employees, harmed all stakeholders as well as stockholders, and