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    What Are Gay Rights Wrong

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    LGBT Rights Same sex marriage: A civil right or a moral wrong? In many eyes same sex marriage is a disgusting thing that should not be allowed. In some cases, dating as far back as the early 1800s, men were castrated, and sometimes even killed. In more recent times, gays, lesbians, and transgender people have become more accepted, but there is still a vast amount of people who want to kill people like that. The people in the LGBT community are often denied adoption, for reasons that are not valid

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    The cultural aspects of a country reflect many qualities of the society that it adheres to. History plays a big part when examining the state that the country is in and also explains why they got to where they are in the global spectrum. After world war ii, with the creation of the united nations many countries around the world agreed to a standard of basic human rights that every citizen around the world should adhere to. In essence, this is the ideal situations where a coalition of states works

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    acceptance of the LGBT+ community. LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender, with the plus extending to those who are intersex and anyone who does not identify as straight (having sexual and/or romantic attraction to another gender) or cisgender (having one’s gender identity match the one in which they were assigned at birth), the two “norms” of our society. The country’s first strides in equality came in the arrest of Everett Klippert, a gay mechanic in the Northwest Territories, in 1967.

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    LGBT Community in the United States and the World in the 21st Century By Annette Underwood Illustrated & Images by google free domain pictures Copyright @ 2014 by SWB Publisher FIRST PUBLICATION EDITION SWB PUBLISHERS 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 INTRODUCTION Is the need for acceptance of one’s sexuality as important as other issues like poverty, unemployment, global warming, natural disasters and proper health solutions for Ebola, Lyme that put our survival itself at risk? When meditating on this

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    Diversity Organization

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    individuals has been around in this country since shortly after America was discovered in 1492 by Columbus. In 1566 the first execution for same-sex activities occurred in what is now Florida by the Spanish ("LGBT History in the United States: A Timeline" [LCBT], 2014). In 1778 the American Army discharged Gotthold Enslin for sodomy. Even the term “homosexual” has been around since 1869 when psychologist Karoly Maria Benkert developed it. Then in 1924 The Society for Human Rights was organized and has been

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    mass. The first recorded mass was in 1803. Later in 1804, worship was banned because Marsden believed Catholics planned rebellions in Mass, as a consequence of harsh conditions, the Catholics rebelled. Up until the 1820s the Catholic Church had few rights and buildings left in Australia. Two Catholic priests arrived in 1820 and were allowed to minister to Catholics. In 1829 the English

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    Why Should the LGBT Community Serve Openly? Publics in Africa and in predominantly Muslim countries remain among the least accepting of homosexuality. In sub-Saharan Africa, at least nine-in-ten in Nigeria (98%), Senegal (96%), Ghana (96%), Uganda (96%) and Kenya (90%) believe homosexuality should not be accepted by society. Even in South Africa where, unlike in many other African countries, homosexual acts are legal and discrimination based on sexual orientation is unconstitutional, 61% say homosexuality

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    may not like the way I am. This generation revolves around technology, and that's what the ¨ordinary¨ American identity is. Other countries view Americans as obese citizens that revolve around phones and hamburgers. In the past America was known as the country that prospered, the great country that thrived in the new land. Now we invade other countries territories, to finish

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    it has been able to publish different and may policies regarding mental health issues. APHA’s issues are more diverse and each policy is specific to an issue arising like in Nov 2014 APHA put forward a policy that addresses the issue of bulling of LGBT youth. All its policy on mental health aim to promote equality especially in terms of race and social status in the community (APHA, 2015). APHA has identified that SDH in America is influenced by substance abuse, poverty, racism, discrimination,

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    invited bisexual leaders to the white house to address their issues and concerns. The Supreme Court has even established and gave same-sex couples new rights and freedoms ensuring a brighter future for LGBT community in the U.S. The changes brought forth by the different forms of government have become more, and more controversial as the fight for Gay Rights presses forward as a very relevant topic in today’s politics. The Legislative Branch of the government has passed several bills which

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