All across the United States there is discussion of same-sex marriage laws and bans. A U.S. District Judge, Arenda L. Wright Allen, struck down a gay marriage ban in Virginia from 2006. She used quotes from interracial marriage cases to help prove her point. This ban is said to be unconstitutional because it breaks the 14th amendment in that homosexuals don’t have equal marriage rights to the heterosexual population. The next article talks about how the south is harsher to gays. In a majority of the southern states not only are you not allowed to be married, but you may lose your job, house, and even your children just because they’re gay. At the very least these people are hoping to at least have their marriages recognized if they’re married in a different state. There are only 17 states that allow gay marriage at this point. The last article discusses the hopes for homosexuals in Nevada and their marriage rights. The state wants to withdraw defense of its own marriage ban and they hope to have a potential solution in a few months. Within the past few years the public opinion of same-sex marriage has flipped. Before they were 67% against, 33% for it; but now it is 57% for marriage rights and only 30% opposition. It is very possible that gay marriage could be legal by 2016 or sooner. There is an exact quote from one of the articles that basically sums up what is happening in comparison to the past. “The African-American civil rights movement didn’t happen in a day down here. There was a lot of resistance to that. The resistance used fire hoses and fire bombs. We’re certainly hoping that we don’t have those same things happen to us.” This situation is actually very similar to what was happening during reconstruction. People found loopholes in the 13th-15th amendments to make the African Americans lesser citizens by taking away rights. We are doing the same thing to the gay people, especially in the south. Hopefully it won’t take as long for the gays to get their rights as it did for African Americans to get theirs.
Many people believe that the gay rights today and black rights in the past are very similar. From many points they are, although there are some points that they are not. One similarity is the states that allow gay marriage versus the states that do not are nearly the same states that supported black and white equality. The New England (northern) states are marrying gay or lesbian couples whereas all the states below Maryland and including a few others constitutionally ban same-sex marriage. In the reconstruction time period after the civil war, a vast majority of southern states did not want equality between blacks and whites. Confederate states created many laws that worked around the 13,14,and 15th amendments, the Jim Crow laws being a few of them. Now, there are many differences between how the blacks were treated and how gays are treated. During the reconstruction process blacks may have been freed of slavery but they were not free of danger. Hundreds of lynchings occurred in southern states, blacks had to show respect to whites that did not have to be showed back to them, blacks were not served at many hotels, or restaurants. Groups like the KKK viciously murdered blacks and their supporters. It is often argued that blacks had similar rights to gays. But truth is, the blacks had it much worse.
Gay rights are discussed daily by different states, just like how slavery was discussed. Not only does every state have/ had its own opinion about these two topics but every United States citizen has their own opinion. In Louisiana doesn't support gay rights. The state didn't support freedmen either. Like slavery, there are several reasons why we should and shouldn't accept gays. Everyone has their own thoughts about this which is why it is still an issue that may never be resolved. There are seventeen states that allow gay marriage. There were about that many states that didn't like slavery. When fighting for gay rights and no slavery many people use the constitution against the court. They remind them that all Americans have freedom of speech and equal protection. Also gay couples that have children are forced to only write one parent name on the birth certificate. This relates to freedmen because many of them had children but their children were owned my white men so they didn't have full custody. There have been many laws that have given freedmen and gay couples more rights. However this doesn't change how people think and act. Many American citizens still make fun of and make racist comments about these two groups. Most likely this will never stop just because of a law. There are many people that speak out to the public regardless of what people think. For example Michael Sam, a defensive lineman, came out as gay. There are many opinions and articles in the news about this and what it means for the future of football and gay people. Also there are many people that are publicly and openly racist to black men and women. Overall it takes hundreds of years to change the way people think but it will never change everyone.
The 21st Century is no better than how the 19th/20th Century was. Back then, from the late 1800’s to the middle 1900’s, there were laws that segregated the blacks from the white. Hate crimes were committed against the blacks as well. Although there are no laws that discriminate black people in the 21st century, there are many around the world that discriminate gays. In the first article, gay men in Egypt are arrested during a Valentine’s Day raid and are fighting to avoid jail. After two months of their arrest, they were convicted of prostitution and sentenced to between three and nine years in prison. Many examinations and pictures do not connect the nine men to prostitution, but they are still convicted. After prison, they will have to check into mental institutions and have health care professionals address their bad behaviors. In the article, Mohamed Bakier, a lawyer defending on of the man, says, “It’s not a criminal case as much as it is a political case. It is about the state trying to deliver a message that the society is still conservative.” This relates to the South and their discrimination towards blacks and the ridiculous things blacks would get arrested for. In Russia, one of their laws bans the promotion of homosexuality to minors. This triggers violence and hate crimes committed against gays and gay rights activists. Many people have been fined for “gay propaganda” as well. In the last article, Indiana passes a ban on same-sex marriage. The law can’t be changed until the year 2016. All of these articles about the hate crimes and discrimination against gays and same-sex marriage relate to that of the blacks back between the late 1800’s and middle 1900’s. Laws against gays and same-sex marriage are like the laws that the blacks had to follow. Also, hate crimes were committed to the blacks, where the reason was because they were black, similar to the hate crimes committed to gay people. When comparing acts of discrimination, hate crimes, and senseless laws between the 21st century and the 19th/20th century, the 21st century is no better than the ones before it.
Russia is not letting countries that have gay rights adopt the children of Russia. It is doing so because they don’t want kids to turn gay or be harassed by other kids for having gay parents. They already made a law where it is illegal to promote gay to minors. A judge in Virginia just over turned gay marriage bans. The judge says it unconstitutional. Senator Ted Cruz is complaining to the Supreme Court about gay marriage laws. The Supreme Court allowed benefits to legally married couples. Cruz I believe is asking the state to decide if they should have that benefit. This relates to reconstruction period because like gay marriage in Virginia slaves in the U.S. gained rights. Not everyone wanted slaves and not everyone wants gay marriages. Like Russia russia is like the south hating slaves. Same with Ted Cruz he could represent a southerner that doesn’t support killing but still wants slaves back.
The three articles that I chose are all very similar in the way that they are all about same sex marriage and how it is slowly winning all of the cases in the court and how at one point it will be completely legal and they will have the same rights as all of us. It also talks about how it may becoming legal and accepted in our society, but you are always going to have people who are against it. And those people who are against it could be anywhere from just disagreeing with it and keeping to themselves, or all the way to taking very violent actions. People do this all because of their opinion on the situation in society. This was the only current events situation that I could find that could truly relate to what we are learning about in class. I relates to what we are talking about in class, because it is taking away rights from human beings equal to us, when they did not even do anything wrong. The Africans did not do anything to deserve to be slaves. If anything, it was the other way around. The Americans went into Africa, kidnapped them and then sold them into slavery. Now society did not treat the gays that awful, but what the common thing they did do was take away rights that society had no right taking away. The homosexual people are not doing anything bad to anyone in any way, so it makes no sense whatsoever to take their rights. Same with Africans, they did nothing wrong, but still had rights taken away. The common theme is being punished for doing nothing. That is the problem with the American’s society. We do things like this when we have not one reason to.
The articles I have chosen are all topics about how the United States is dealing with gay marriage. Many states have begun to make gay marriage legal like Virginia while many states are still keeping same sex marriage illegal like Kentucky. The debate over gay marriage has split our nation into two groups, those who support it, and those who do not. Each side attacks the other in different ways, and it has divided states and people, each saying that they want it their way. This issue is much like the problem our nation dealt with years ago, when we were divided into the North and the South, the people who wanted slavery and the people who were against it. Once the North won and slavery was abolished, Southern people still chose to treat blacks in racist ways and formed segregation. They created ridiculous laws like the Jim Crow laws that kept blacks from doing the things whites did, and showed that blacks were somehow “inferior” to white people. Now, gay people are not treated as badly as the black people were, but there are American citizens who treat gays unfairly and cruelly. However, in both circumstances, both the blacks and gays fight for their rights using the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments and the Constitution. People famously quoted “all men are created equal” to support African American rights and now do the same with gay marriage. It seems like every time our nation tries to improve, for example, during the Reconstruction, we are always divided by something. Whether it is fighting for African American rights or court trial upon trial fighting for gay marriage rights, it’s almost as if the people of the United Sates will never see eye to eye.
I chose three articles, all having something to do with same sex marriage. The first one is an article about what is going on in Russia right now. Not only are they banning homosexuals, they are also banning any child from being adopted into a country that allows same sex marriage, making it harder for children to be adopted and to find a good home. The next article I found has to do with a federal judge in Virginia stating that the same sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. He said that the ban denies people of their rights and equal protection guaranteed in the 14th amendment. The last one has a lot to do with what we’re learning right now. It’s about a new amendment in Kansas. The amendment is similar to the segregation laws that were passed along time ago, it will allow shop owners to turn down gay couples, and ambulances will be able to refuse to help them. They don’t even have to know for sure if a person is gay, if they even think they’re gay they are allowed to deny them service. They are literally legalizing segregation all over again. All of the situations can easily be compared to the time period of reconstruction in the US. It is taking rights away from certain citizens. Looking down on them for ‘being different.’ In the time of reconstruction, they came up with ridiculous laws to keep people segregated; now the same thing is happening again except this time with gay people. The problem in Kansas could even be called similar to the Jim Crow laws. -Anna
The three articles that I found for my current event were all about gay rights. The first article that I found talks about a law that does not support gay marriage in Colorado, and how nine gay couples were being sued in that state. The second article I found about this topic talked about Michael Sam, the first player in the NFL to come out as gay. This article also discussed the surveys done on some NFL players, and shows how they would feel about having a gay player on their football team. Many players said they would be comfortable, but some did not feel the same way. The last article that I found about gay rights talked about a lady in Russia at the Olympic park who was shouting "Its OK to be gay" supporting her beliefs. The lady was taken in a police car for only ten minutes and was let out in the countryside. The policemen also took away her Olympic pass. Police also detained her after she showed up for a second time and then denied that they did this. These three articles that I found all support the fact that even though most people believe in equal rights, not every one thinks this. This current event could relate to our history because of slavery. After the Civil War, when the North and the South became a Union again, slavery was abolished. The Northerners supported this and were happy that slavery was gone. The Southerners, on the other hand, were not too pleased with this. Even though they respected the law of abolished slavery, they still treated colored people as if they were lower than themselves. They treated a lot of them very badly, and segregation became very apparent in the southern states. So even though the U.S today does not treat gays as poorly as the South treated slaves, I would definitely say that gay people are not treated equally and as fairly as others. I believe that as time goes on, more people will try to put a stop to it and this problem will not be too bad just as the issue with segregation is not as bad now as it used to be.
I chose three articles on gay rights in the USA because it is getting treated kind of how slavery was treated back in the civil war era. The 3 articles I chose all talk about gay rights. The 1st article talks about how a gay football player came out, and now the whole entire football league has to do something about it. And let me remind you that he is an All-American college first team player, so it would terrible for a team not to draft this young superstar. The 2nd article talks about how gay marriage is slowly starting to be accepted in court and in states kind of how slavery started to become illegal everywhere around the USA. And the last article talks about the comparison between black civil rights and gay rights on how gay people think that they are being treated with total disrespect and how they feel like its back during the civil rights movement where people are looking at them with disgust. All these articles compare to what we are learning in class right now being slavery becoming illegal because it was treated almost the same way. It compares to the 1st article because the NFL has to come to a decision on whether to accept Michael Sams, the openly gay football player, or to keep football how it always was and have no one draft him. Also, in the league there are people like the southerners and don’t want gay players in the league and there are players like northerners who want to accept gay players. The 2nd article is like what we are learning because just like Abraham Lincoln did with slavery and blacks, some states are approving of gay marriage. And the last article is similar because it’s kind of in the title and also, in the article 1 paragraph says how it is almost like lynching, but of course the verbal part and how people wouldn’t serve gays in hotels and restaurants because they don’t accept it. Sorry so late! Lucas Kullmann
These three sources all have to do with discrimination in the US. The first and third source is both about racial discrimination in America. The first source talks about a hoax when Lincoln was in office, about how he started a program to create interracial relationships. Interracial relationships were considered unacceptable by many at that time. This hoax was not true however and was only created to ruin Lincoln’s reelection. The third source is an article about a man shooting a black teenager because the teenager would not turn his music down. This shows discrimination because the man was white and would likely not have shot the teenager if the teenager was white also. The second source talks about discrimination based upon a person’s sexual orientation. Ellen Page, an actor, said that she was gay, and even though she was not criticized by some, others did criticize her. This is discrimination because it is judging someone irrationally, even though you do not really know them or what they are like. These sources relate because they all are about modern day discrimination. In US History we are learning about Reconstruction, where prejudice was common. Discrimination had a large part to play during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War. This is because many southerners did not want to allow African-Americans rights as citizens. Many African-Americans were lynched or unfairly sent to prison. They were being judged, not by their character, but by the color of their skin. This carried on for many years, and still can be seen today in our society.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/02/14/three-hopeful-signs-for-proponents-of-gay-marriage-in-nevada/
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/will-south-give-gay-marriage-couples-crusade-rights-n29836
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-judge-strikes-down-va-ban-on-gay-marriage/2014/02/13/c65b7674-9528-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html
Cara Plummer
All across the United States there is discussion of same-sex marriage laws and bans. A U.S. District Judge, Arenda L. Wright Allen, struck down a gay marriage ban in Virginia from 2006. She used quotes from interracial marriage cases to help prove her point. This ban is said to be unconstitutional because it breaks the 14th amendment in that homosexuals don’t have equal marriage rights to the heterosexual population. The next article talks about how the south is harsher to gays. In a majority of the southern states not only are you not allowed to be married, but you may lose your job, house, and even your children just because they’re gay. At the very least these people are hoping to at least have their marriages recognized if they’re married in a different state. There are only 17 states that allow gay marriage at this point. The last article discusses the hopes for homosexuals in Nevada and their marriage rights. The state wants to withdraw defense of its own marriage ban and they hope to have a potential solution in a few months. Within the past few years the public opinion of same-sex marriage has flipped. Before they were 67% against, 33% for it; but now it is 57% for marriage rights and only 30% opposition. It is very possible that gay marriage could be legal by 2016 or sooner.
DeleteThere is an exact quote from one of the articles that basically sums up what is happening in comparison to the past. “The African-American civil rights movement didn’t happen in a day down here. There was a lot of resistance to that. The resistance used fire hoses and fire bombs. We’re certainly hoping that we don’t have those same things happen to us.” This situation is actually very similar to what was happening during reconstruction. People found loopholes in the 13th-15th amendments to make the African Americans lesser citizens by taking away rights. We are doing the same thing to the gay people, especially in the south. Hopefully it won’t take as long for the gays to get their rights as it did for African Americans to get theirs.
Cara Plummer
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/lawsuit-challenges-ala-anti-gay-marriage-law-22502055http://www.statesthatallowgaymarriage.com
ReplyDeletehttp://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2013/09/27/comparing-black-civil-rights-to-gay-civil-rights-n1710528
Many people believe that the gay rights today and black rights in the past are very similar. From many points they are, although there are some points that they are not. One similarity is the states that allow gay marriage versus the states that do not are nearly the same states that supported black and white equality. The New England (northern) states are marrying gay or lesbian couples whereas all the states below Maryland and including a few others constitutionally ban same-sex marriage. In the reconstruction time period after the civil war, a vast majority of southern states did not want equality between blacks and whites. Confederate states created many laws that worked around the 13,14,and 15th amendments, the Jim Crow laws being a few of them. Now, there are many differences between how the blacks were treated and how gays are treated. During the reconstruction process blacks may have been freed of slavery but they were not free of danger. Hundreds of lynchings occurred in southern states, blacks had to show respect to whites that did not have to be showed back to them, blacks were not served at many hotels, or restaurants. Groups like the KKK viciously murdered blacks and their supporters. It is often argued that blacks had similar rights to gays. But truth is, the blacks had it much worse.
-ellie A
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/louisiana-activists-launch-gay-marriage-lawsuit-article-1.1611178
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/opinion/gay-rights-and-the-justice-department.html?hpw&rref=opinion&_r=2
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-hear-challenge-texas-gay-marriage-ban-22474388
Rebecca Westrom
Gay rights are discussed daily by different states, just like how slavery was discussed. Not only does every state have/ had its own opinion about these two topics but every United States citizen has their own opinion. In Louisiana doesn't support gay rights. The state didn't support freedmen either. Like slavery, there are several reasons why we should and shouldn't accept gays. Everyone has their own thoughts about this which is why it is still an issue that may never be resolved. There are seventeen states that allow gay marriage. There were about that many states that didn't like slavery. When fighting for gay rights and no slavery many people use the constitution against the court. They remind them that all Americans have freedom of speech and equal protection. Also gay couples that have children are forced to only write one parent name on the birth certificate. This relates to freedmen because many of them had children but their children were owned my white men so they didn't have full custody. There have been many laws that have given freedmen and gay couples more rights. However this doesn't change how people think and act. Many American citizens still make fun of and make racist comments about these two groups. Most likely this will never stop just because of a law. There are many people that speak out to the public regardless of what people think. For example Michael Sam, a defensive lineman, came out as gay. There are many opinions and articles in the news about this and what it means for the future of football and gay people. Also there are many people that are publicly and openly racist to black men and women. Overall it takes hundreds of years to change the way people think but it will never change everyone.
DeleteRebecca Westrom
http://www.policymic.com/articles/82177/gay-men-arrested-during-valentine-s-day-raid-in-egypt-are-fighting-to-avoid-jail
ReplyDeletehttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/13/same-sex-marriage-ban-stalls-in-indiana/5476043/
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/05/russia-anti-gay-law-criticism-playing-into-putin-hands
The 21st Century is no better than how the 19th/20th Century was. Back then, from the late 1800’s to the middle 1900’s, there were laws that segregated the blacks from the white. Hate crimes were committed against the blacks as well. Although there are no laws that discriminate black people in the 21st century, there are many around the world that discriminate gays. In the first article, gay men in Egypt are arrested during a Valentine’s Day raid and are fighting to avoid jail. After two months of their arrest, they were convicted of prostitution and sentenced to between three and nine years in prison. Many examinations and pictures do not connect the nine men to prostitution, but they are still convicted. After prison, they will have to check into mental institutions and have health care professionals address their bad behaviors. In the article, Mohamed Bakier, a lawyer defending on of the man, says, “It’s not a criminal case as much as it is a political case. It is about the state trying to deliver a message that the society is still conservative.” This relates to the South and their discrimination towards blacks and the ridiculous things blacks would get arrested for. In Russia, one of their laws bans the promotion of homosexuality to minors. This triggers violence and hate crimes committed against gays and gay rights activists. Many people have been fined for “gay propaganda” as well. In the last article, Indiana passes a ban on same-sex marriage. The law can’t be changed until the year 2016. All of these articles about the hate crimes and discrimination against gays and same-sex marriage relate to that of the blacks back between the late 1800’s and middle 1900’s. Laws against gays and same-sex marriage are like the laws that the blacks had to follow. Also, hate crimes were committed to the blacks, where the reason was because they were black, similar to the hate crimes committed to gay people. When comparing acts of discrimination, hate crimes, and senseless laws between the 21st century and the 19th/20th century, the 21st century is no better than the ones before it.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/now-russia-extends-anti-gay-law-cover-some-straight-couples-n30181
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/Federal-Judge-Rules-Va-Gay-Marriage-Ban-Unconstitutional-245473531.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-wants-feds-to-stop-meddling-in-same-sex-marriage-debate/
Russia is not letting countries that have gay rights adopt the children of Russia. It is doing so because they don’t want kids to turn gay or be harassed by other kids for having gay parents. They already made a law where it is illegal to promote gay to minors.
A judge in Virginia just over turned gay marriage bans. The judge says it unconstitutional.
Senator Ted Cruz is complaining to the Supreme Court about gay marriage laws. The Supreme Court allowed benefits to legally married couples. Cruz I believe is asking the state to decide if they should have that benefit.
This relates to reconstruction period because like gay marriage in Virginia slaves in the U.S. gained rights. Not everyone wanted slaves and not everyone wants gay marriages. Like Russia russia is like the south hating slaves. Same with Ted Cruz he could represent a southerner that doesn’t support killing but still wants slaves back.
lucas carreras
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/same_sex_marriage/
ReplyDeletehttp://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/02/virginia_s_gay_marriage_ban_ruled_unconstitutional_a_perfect_record_for.html
http://theweek.com/article/index/256473/the-gop-is-moving-backward-on-gay-rights
The three articles that I chose are all very similar in the way that they are all about same sex marriage and how it is slowly winning all of the cases in the court and how at one point it will be completely legal and they will have the same rights as all of us. It also talks about how it may becoming legal and accepted in our society, but you are always going to have people who are against it. And those people who are against it could be anywhere from just disagreeing with it and keeping to themselves, or all the way to taking very violent actions. People do this all because of their opinion on the situation in society.
This was the only current events situation that I could find that could truly relate to what we are learning about in class. I relates to what we are talking about in class, because it is taking away rights from human beings equal to us, when they did not even do anything wrong. The Africans did not do anything to deserve to be slaves. If anything, it was the other way around. The Americans went into Africa, kidnapped them and then sold them into slavery. Now society did not treat the gays that awful, but what the common thing they did do was take away rights that society had no right taking away. The homosexual people are not doing anything bad to anyone in any way, so it makes no sense whatsoever to take their rights. Same with Africans, they did nothing wrong, but still had rights taken away. The common theme is being punished for doing nothing. That is the problem with the American’s society. We do things like this when we have not one reason to.
Joe Breen
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/14/kentucky-gay-marriage-lawsuit/5494033/
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/us/federal-judge-overturns-virginias-same-sex-marriage-ban.html?_r=0
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/13/us/kansas-bill-same-sex-services/
The articles I have chosen are all topics about how the United States is dealing with gay marriage. Many states have begun to make gay marriage legal like Virginia while many states are still keeping same sex marriage illegal like Kentucky. The debate over gay marriage has split our nation into two groups, those who support it, and those who do not. Each side attacks the other in different ways, and it has divided states and people, each saying that they want it their way.
This issue is much like the problem our nation dealt with years ago, when we were divided into the North and the South, the people who wanted slavery and the people who were against it. Once the North won and slavery was abolished, Southern people still chose to treat blacks in racist ways and formed segregation. They created ridiculous laws like the Jim Crow laws that kept blacks from doing the things whites did, and showed that blacks were somehow “inferior” to white people. Now, gay people are not treated as badly as the black people were, but there are American citizens who treat gays unfairly and cruelly. However, in both circumstances, both the blacks and gays fight for their rights using the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments and the Constitution. People famously quoted “all men are created equal” to support African American rights and now do the same with gay marriage. It seems like every time our nation tries to improve, for example, during the Reconstruction, we are always divided by something. Whether it is fighting for African American rights or court trial upon trial fighting for gay marriage rights, it’s almost as if the people of the United Sates will never see eye to eye.
Megan R
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russia-bans-adoptions-to-countries-where-gay-marriage-is-legal/494484.html
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2014/02/13/politics/virginia-same-sex-marriage-unconstitutional/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/13/anti-gay-jim-crow-comes-to-kansas.html
I chose three articles, all having something to do with same sex marriage. The first one is an article about what is going on in Russia right now. Not only are they banning homosexuals, they are also banning any child from being adopted into a country that allows same sex marriage, making it harder for children to be adopted and to find a good home. The next article I found has to do with a federal judge in Virginia stating that the same sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. He said that the ban denies people of their rights and equal protection guaranteed in the 14th amendment. The last one has a lot to do with what we’re learning right now. It’s about a new amendment in Kansas. The amendment is similar to the segregation laws that were passed along time ago, it will allow shop owners to turn down gay couples, and ambulances will be able to refuse to help them. They don’t even have to know for sure if a person is gay, if they even think they’re gay they are allowed to deny them service. They are literally legalizing segregation all over again. All of the situations can easily be compared to the time period of reconstruction in the US. It is taking rights away from certain citizens. Looking down on them for ‘being different.’ In the time of reconstruction, they came up with ridiculous laws to keep people segregated; now the same thing is happening again except this time with gay people. The problem in Kansas could even be called similar to the Jim Crow laws.
Delete-Anna
Maddie Knight
ReplyDeletehttp://kdvr.com/2014/02/17/nine-couples-to-sue-to-overturn-colorados-gay-marriage-ban/
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10468830/forty-four-51-nfl-players-surveyed-say-teammates-sexual-orientation-matter
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/italian-gay-activist-briefly-detained-sochi-22544658
The three articles that I found for my current event were all about gay rights. The first article that I found talks about a law that does not support gay marriage in Colorado, and how nine gay couples were being sued in that state. The second article I found about this topic talked about Michael Sam, the first player in the NFL to come out as gay. This article also discussed the surveys done on some NFL players, and shows how they would feel about having a gay player on their football team. Many players said they would be comfortable, but some did not feel the same way. The last article that I found about gay rights talked about a lady in Russia at the Olympic park who was shouting "Its OK to be gay" supporting her beliefs. The lady was taken in a police car for only ten minutes and was let out in the countryside. The policemen also took away her Olympic pass. Police also detained her after she showed up for a second time and then denied that they did this. These three articles that I found all support the fact that even though most people believe in equal rights, not every one thinks this.
This current event could relate to our history because of slavery. After the Civil War, when the North and the South became a Union again, slavery was abolished. The Northerners supported this and were happy that slavery was gone. The Southerners, on the other hand, were not too pleased with this. Even though they respected the law of abolished slavery, they still treated colored people as if they were lower than themselves. They treated a lot of them very badly, and segregation became very apparent in the southern states.
So even though the U.S today does not treat gays as poorly as the South treated slaves, I would definitely say that gay people are not treated equally and as fairly as others. I believe that as time goes on, more people will try to put a stop to it and this problem will not be too bad just as the issue with segregation is not as bad now as it used to be.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/sports/football/for-nfl-prospect-michael-sam-upbringing-was-bigger-challenge-than-coming-out-as-gay.html?_r=0
ReplyDeletehttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/same_sex_marriage/
http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2013/09/27/comparing-black-civil-rights-to-gay-civil-rights-n1710528
I chose three articles on gay rights in the USA because it is getting treated kind of how slavery was treated back in the civil war era. The 3 articles I chose all talk about gay rights. The 1st article talks about how a gay football player came out, and now the whole entire football league has to do something about it. And let me remind you that he is an All-American college first team player, so it would terrible for a team not to draft this young superstar. The 2nd article talks about how gay marriage is slowly starting to be accepted in court and in states kind of how slavery started to become illegal everywhere around the USA. And the last article talks about the comparison between black civil rights and gay rights on how gay people think that they are being treated with total disrespect and how they feel like its back during the civil rights movement where people are looking at them with disgust.
All these articles compare to what we are learning in class right now being slavery becoming illegal because it was treated almost the same way. It compares to the 1st article because the NFL has to come to a decision on whether to accept Michael Sams, the openly gay football player, or to keep football how it always was and have no one draft him. Also, in the league there are people like the southerners and don’t want gay players in the league and there are players like northerners who want to accept gay players. The 2nd article is like what we are learning because just like Abraham Lincoln did with slavery and blacks, some states are approving of gay marriage. And the last article is similar because it’s kind of in the title and also, in the article 1 paragraph says how it is almost like lynching, but of course the verbal part and how people wouldn’t serve gays in hotels and restaurants because they don’t accept it.
Sorry so late!
Lucas Kullmann
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/15/opinion/kadish-lincoln-hoax/index.html?hpt=us_mid
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/15/showbiz/page-comes-out/index.html?hpt=us_r1
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/16/opinion/weathersbee-dunn-davis-verdict/index.html?iref=allsearch
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These three sources all have to do with discrimination in the US. The first and third source is both about racial discrimination in America. The first source talks about a hoax when Lincoln was in office, about how he started a program to create interracial relationships. Interracial relationships were considered unacceptable by many at that time. This hoax was not true however and was only created to ruin Lincoln’s reelection. The third source is an article about a man shooting a black teenager because the teenager would not turn his music down. This shows discrimination because the man was white and would likely not have shot the teenager if the teenager was white also. The second source talks about discrimination based upon a person’s sexual orientation. Ellen Page, an actor, said that she was gay, and even though she was not criticized by some, others did criticize her. This is discrimination because it is judging someone irrationally, even though you do not really know them or what they are like.
DeleteThese sources relate because they all are about modern day discrimination. In US History we are learning about Reconstruction, where prejudice was common. Discrimination had a large part to play during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War. This is because many southerners did not want to allow African-Americans rights as citizens. Many African-Americans were lynched or unfairly sent to prison. They were being judged, not by their character, but by the color of their skin. This carried on for many years, and still can be seen today in our society.
Jake Gross