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    important it was to speak out about how you feel, and are willing to understand your loved ones. They wanted their family members to know that are the same person they were before coming out and not to treat them different just because their sexual orientation. There were a few family members who weren’t of support of their loved ones being LGBTQ, but

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    out is ENDA. The topic of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is something that I think will continue to garner huge political attention for years to come. This law sticks with me, not because I belong to any of the classes of people it is trying to protect, but because I see that those people really are not getting the fair treatment they deserve. It seems so dumb to me to not hire someone because of his or her sexual orientation. I truly believe that the person most deserving of the

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    gender in which they are attracted to is known as their sexual orientation. A person can identify themselves as being one of many orientations. The most known and recognised of these are homosexual; lesbian and gay, bisexual; being sexually attracted to both sexes and transgender; which means that a person has a sense of self-identity of themselves and their gender which differs with the gender in which they were born. These sexual orientations are grouped and known as the LGBT community. Unfortunately

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    also a factor as to why I am for sexual orientation equality. Growing in , my family and I were not adiment about going to church. The most church that I have attended when I was young includes VBS and an occasional sunday service if my neighbor ever conjured up the energy to go. So my outlook on sexual orientation differs from most christians, however I do consider myself Christian, we just seem to differ on the verses we go back to when deciding if sexual orientation equality is O.K. My family did

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    heteronormativity everywhere they turn. It is true that civil rights for LGBT people have progressed enormously. As of January 2, 2015, 35 states have legalized same-sex marriage, 18 states have workplace discrimination laws that cover both sexual orientation and gender identity, and the majority of public schools must have bullying policies that protect LGBT students. Despite how far we have come, there is still a lot of work to do in the area of acceptance. The only way homophobia will be diminished

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    New introductions of sexual orientation measures in some of the health surveillance surveys addressed by the states and federal governments, are allowing for population-based information analysis regarding sexual minorities, and their health, along with its status relative to that of the heterosexual majority. Very few studies have successfully been able to investigate variability in health conditions by sexual orientation, especially the ones that involve sexual orientation as well as other important

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    In rodents, incisor procumbency refers to the orientation of the upper incisor, defined by the position of the cutting edge of the incisor relative to the vertical plane of the incisors. Considerations about the artistic orientation. In this area, they have a weak northerly orientation (Kacrovowski, 1977). In southern Georgia and northern Florida, the northerly orientation is matched by a westerly orientation of the direction of Pleistocene movement of sand dunes (Markewich and Markewich 1994). Northward

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    Social Effects on Sexual Orientation The origin and cause of human sexual orientation have been highly debated topics between sociologist and biologists. Most scientists believe sexual orientation is biologically determined while sociologists argue that it is socially constructed. There is a third belief that human sexual orientation is not solely biologically determined or socially constructed. From this belief come theories that combine both arguments, where human sexual orientation contains a biological

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    Discrimination based on sexual orientation has been denounced morally based on the argument that those who fall outside of the “normal” heterosexual orientation were “born that way”. The rationale behind this judgement is that those who did not choose something should not be discriminated against because of it. There already exists a societal consensus that it is unfair (and even immoral) to discriminate against someone based on their race, hair colour, disability etc., and many believe that those

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    are still numerous social problems that still exist in society today. Amongst those numerous social problems, sexual orientation and inequality stand out to me. Research from biology, psychology, and sociology is where our understanding of sexual orientation comes from. There are two hypothetical theories researchers have discovered examining the biological basis toward sexual orientation. One concept is the neurohormonal theory, biologist contend that homosexuality is caused by abnormal sex hormone

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