Kim Davis Research Paper

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court Case Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) which nationally legalized same sex marriage, the religious right has felt that protections on religious liberty in this country have gone under attack. As the LGBTQ+ movement gains more traction in mainstream media, local municipalities, and even state governments, many religiously conservative states legislatures have begun to fight back by passing laws that protect a person’s right to discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community because of religious objections. While a person’s right to abstain from participating in a business transaction concerning a same sex marriage has been widely debated (and continues to be widely debate) for some time now, the new anti-transgender

A university student who has already made headlines for having sex with a married doctor has now been banned from driving after being described as ‘nothing short of a lunatic’.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June declaring a Constitutional right to same-sex marriage, Ms. Davis, due to her religious beliefs, has been refusing to issue marriage licenses to not only gay couples, but straight couples as well.

Alice Brown Davis- lived all of her life serving the Seminole Nation, in the early nineteenth century. She mostly taught, but she ran a trading post called Arbeka. She also built a ranch, was in charge of other local Native American currency, and was the superintendent of the Seminole girls' school. Not to mention she was a law interpreter, and even traveled to Palm beach, Florida to act as an interpreter a murder trial involving a Seminole man. In 1922 she became chief by President Warren G. Harding. Here, she became the first women to lead the Seminole Nation. Though, she was elected by the president, not by her tribe. Her tribe found her to be “well thought of and well respected and the people were happy with having her as Chief. “

County Clerk Kim Davis, of Rowan County, Kentucky, is in a difficult situation because she refuses to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples. Herbert W. Titus and William J. Olson have written an article about why they think she is doing the right thing not just religiously, but Constitutionally as well. They outline the reasons why the stand she is taking is her only option as a Christian and as an elected official of the United States.

Living life to the fullest is how Shelby Davis would express her life. She lives for every minute of the day and continues to do that still. Shelby expresses her life through her daily activities and through love. Shelby loves what she does in life and is continuing to let her work grow amongst people.

“Amanda Clark’s phone conversation came to an abrupt end when her Chevrolet Trailblazer rolled three times before landing on its roof. She had run a stop sign and was broadsided by another driver. Metal caved in around her, but the roof stayed intact and she survived with just scrapes and bruises” (Tracy). Amanda Clark survived her first car accident caused by distracted driving, but wasn’t as lucky the second time. After she started driving again, she pledged to put her phone away and focus on driving. Clark’s Mother, Bonnye Spray, said, “I thought this would be a wakeup call for her, and it was for a short time she wouldn’t talk on the phone, she was more cautious. But she got more confident in her driving and a sense of ‘Hey, I survived one, I’m invincible, nothing is going to happen to me now’” (Tracy). A year after her accident, Clark was driving on a highway. She

A writer, who is like Olivia Pope for the women of color, and been working in order to expand the narrowness and inaccurate narratives of women of color in the mainstream media, is Michaela Angela Davis. By profession, Davis is an Image Activist, creative director, writer, and cultural commentator. She is a fixer of sorts that seeks to change pessimistic cognizance of Black women in the entertainment and media.

Kristi was born in 1972. Kristi spent her childhood in the years 1972-1985 and her teenage years from 1985-1990. There are five people in her family, including two parents, Nancy and Harlan, and two sisters, Roxanne and Michelle in that order with Kristi being the youngest daughter. A typical day in Kristi’s life while in high school was to wake up, go to school, go to sports practice after school, come home, eat supper, do homework, and then go to bed for the next day.

Once upon a time in a far, far, away town, lived an ordinary girl named Rhonda k. Rhonda k was a great student. She was both athletic, and popular. She had everything going for her except one thing. That one thing was that she had an enemy named Wonita Weisenberger that always wanted to bring her down or be better than her. Rhonda k and her best friend Dorinda never let this happen. Rhonda k was dating the star football player, named F. The other bad thing was that her nemesis Wonita Weisenberger liked F. She would always try to get in between the two. Rhonda k was very upset one day when she went to find her boyfriend and found him talking to Wonita on the bench. Ugh-are they really talking to each other she thought(15). When Rhonda

In a hypothetical scenario in which same-sex marriage and religious freedom are brought to a legal confrontation, the constitutional rights of both plaintiffs and defendants bring forth a nationwide debate on civil liberties and rights—yet it is easy to mistake one for the other. In this scenario, after lesbian couples Donna and Theodora married in the state of Massachusetts instead of North Carolina (Theodora’s home state), both decided to move to North Carolina in the city of Clinton where they found jobs to financially support one another. However, when both couples contacted a local bakery shop for a wedding cake, they were denied by the shop’s owner who cited North Carolina’s recently enacted law that allows businesses to refuse the patronage of homosexuals when the business owners themselves have a religious objection to homosexuality and same-sex marriage. When Donna and Theodora tried to hire a photographer for when they planned to recite their wedding vows, the photographer refused—with the issue of religious freedom again been cited in her arguments. Although this initially didn’t come as a surprise to Donna and Theodora, Donna was more concerned about the maid of honor, Bernice, a transgender person being able to use the women’s restroom. Because Bernice was born male, under the rules of House Bill 2—more formally addressed as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act (aka “the bathroom bill”)—that would exclude Bernice from using the bathroom of her choice

As we know, same-sex marriage has been discussed and argued for a long time. Within the controversial topic of gay rights, there’s no area more controversial than same-sex marriage. And all of us ask ourselves if same-sex marriage should be legal or not. But the fact is that we have to start thinking about it as a moral and religious topic. The government shouldn’t legalize the same-sex marriage because the

In the Boston Globe newspaper editorial “For Gay Marriage” the editors argue that gay marriage should be legalized. Throughout the article the Globe Editors mention the expanding circle of rights, the circle includes the civil-rights movement, gender equality, rights for the disabled, 18 year olds to vote, single mothers and adoptive parents. It is apparent that the right for gay marriage should occur (“Globe” A18).These advances have occurred with the help of court cases. The 1967 supreme court case and Loving V. Virginia Court rulings ruled that the ban on interracial marriage was unconstitutional (“Globe” A18). Along with the court precedents The Globe uses Hillary Goodridge as an example when she was unable to see her newly born daughter in the hospital because she was not married to her partner of 15 years. (A18). The Editors discuss opposing reasons why gay marriage should not be legalized by the Massachusetts Attorney General. One argument the attorney general makes is that marriage is, “…A social institution designed to promote child bearing and rearing” (A18). The Globe the refutes this statement because same sex couples are not denied the right to adopt as well as they do the everyday things an opposite sex couple would do (A18). In the Boston Globe article editors use court precedents and emotional stories to argue that gay marriage should be legalized.

In 2004 eleven states in the United States approved same-sex marriage as a constitutional heterosexual institution (CNN.com) Recently the issue of same sex marriage has been on the minds of Americans along with the puzzling question of whether or not it should be legal. The fight for same-sex marriage is still going strong, yet many people frown upon the idea of people of the same-sex marrying. They say it is unconstitutional, against the religion, and violates the laws of a regular marriage between a man and women. In Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” he speaks about his right and being treated unconstitutionally. Just like he expressed in his letter,

By deconstructing the common comparison of same-sex marriage to interracial marriage, she intends to defend her view that interracial marriage is not a slippery slope decision that will roll down hill in an out of control manner and head for the worst like, she claims, same-sex marriage will. Opposing Barber’s views, Quindlen wrote an essay in 2008 entitled: “The Loving Decision” where she sets forth her support for same-sex marriage by constructing a comparison between interracial marriage and same-sex marriage. She uses this comparison to suggest that same-sex marriage will, too, be validated by the courts because “the world only spins forward” (258). Even though Barber and Quindlen stand on opposite sides of the debate with views clashing on fundamental concepts like the meaning of marriage, the nature of homosexuality, and the applicability of the Loving v. Virginia court case to the issue, in various areas the two authors have common ground.