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    have the choice on who they want to have kids with, no matter what sexual orientation; 15 states in the U.S. agree. Gay adoption is when people of the same sex want to adopt a child. There is an estimate of 2,000,000 people in the LGBT community that are interested in adopting. As the result of only having 15 states allowing gay adoption, only 4% of the adopted children are adopted by gay people or lesbians. This has been an issue for hundreds of hundreds of years. People that are in a same sex marriage

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    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues have continuously triggered debates and controversies among various individuals across the globe. The rising concerns leading to the differences in opinions regarding LGBT emanate from the point of perceptions, cultural beliefs, religious values and political basis. Due to the dynamics of not accepting the existence of the LGBT people by some individuals in their communities, the LGBTs have found it hard to express themselves freely and enjoy equal

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    Gay is Okay Amber Rose once said “Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is only found in 1. Which one seems unnatural now?” As a 15 year old lesbian I still cannot build up enough courage to call myself a lesbian out loud. Unfortunately, for all those who may not necessarily believe it, I was born this way and so were/are many others. I believe Gay is okay. Well maybe that’s an understatement considering that there is more than a dozen terms to describe someone who doesn’t identify

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    Recently in Chechnya, Russia, gay or assumed to be gay men are being captured by authorities and are being tortured and killed in an attempt to get rid of the gay population. Over 100 victims have been captured so far and tortured in what some describe as “concentration camps”. Victims are being lured in by authorities who pose themselves as gay men online, and when they meet they tortured by shocking them with electricity and are asked if they know any other gay men. The men are released in days

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    A couple is losing their adopted child due to them being a homosexual male couple. What truly is the difference between a straight couple and a gay couple adopting children? What is so controversial about wanting to give a child a chance at a good life, should people judge someone for providing help if they simply have a different sexuality? Fears from conservative families and religious groups have caused people to go into hysteria over their views on this group of people. People who were once open

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    In today’s society there are certain stereotypically people that are uninterested in gay or lesbian marriage. Everyone should have the right to decide on who they would like to marry. Gay marriage should be legal and a non-punishable offense because it can prevent teenage suicides, more children will be adopted, and people will not feel like second-class citizens. If humanity was to acquire gay marriage it would lower and prevent some teen suicides. Most teens are deciding and revealing what path

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    GAY LINGO AS A FORM OF INNOVATIVE DEVIANCE Sociology 101 Dr. Aleli Sevilla September 8, 2010 I. IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROBLEM AND HYPOTHESIS This paper aims to answer the following questions: 1. How did Gay Lingo evolve to become a form of innovative deviance? 2. Does the use of Gay Lingo by the society equate to the acceptance of homosexuals in the Philippines? The researchers have formulated the following hypotheses as preliminary answers to the questions

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    I learned that gay oppression stems from capitalistic ideas and nature. When the industrial revolution came around in the early 19th century it brought with it the traditional ideals of family that we know today (Carlin, 2007). Capitalists didn’t like the ideal of homosexuality because it defeated the purpose of sex only being for reproduction (Carlin, 2007). They thought that gays were getting in the way of producing the next generation of workers (Carlin, 2007). They quickly deemed them unnatural

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    Gay Marriage Moment Gay marriage should be allowed nobody is perfect. In this world we all have the ability to love somebody. We shouldn’t judge others, all of us are human beings just because we don’t like a man or women of our kind. Each one of us that are homosexuals or lesbians or gays. Doesn’t mean that we can’t have the same things as men and women some people believe that same sex marriage is against their morals and their religious won’t accept it. Gay marriage should be allowed because the

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    Vatican’s Policies and Regulations about Gay Seminarians In the last two decades, homosexuality has increasingly become a topic of conversation. The "unmentionable" is now mentioned casually in many circles, named in the media, and narrated in song and film. Inevitably, despite the Church's stability and resistance as a millennia-old institution, this topic could not help but enter ecclesiastical discussion, as well. And there it shakes the foundations, for it unearths an issue critical to the unmarried

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