Unenumerated rights might include the right to travel, and the right to raise a family and the right to privacy. ... In 2006, New Jersey passed a law that permits same-sex couples to engage in a "civil union," the legally recognized long-term relationship between two people of the same-sex (Nunan). This law took effect in 2007. In May of 2007, a law creating domestic partnerships, for same-sex couples was passed by the state legislature of Oregon. This law took effect in 2008. ...

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The first major court case that challenged the law against gay marriage was Griswold v. ... This landmark case ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy. ... They claimed that the accessory statute violated the 14th amendment and the right to privacy. ... Even though the fourteenth amendment does not ever mention a right to privacy, this case opened up a basis for the right to privacy in intimate practices, protected under the 14th Amendment. ... The 9th Amendment also, like the 5th and 14th, deals with a right to privacy. ...

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People in love get married everyday so what harm is done to society if a law is passed legalizing same sex marriages? ... In the constitution, it states that every human being has the right to privacy. So, why can homosexuals not practice their own right for privacy? Why can they not get married and have a legal union according to the laws of the constitution? ... (b) Such a marriage is subject to the same provisions of California law applicable to other marriages. ...

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As matter of fact, gay should have just as much rights, as a straight person are entitled under the law or the social norm. ... By allowing the government to decide whom or what the people get to marry, that is just a huge slap in the face to the right of privacy, which is written in the Constitution that the privacy of its citizen should not be violated. Although with this in mind "last week California passed Proposition 22, becoming the 31st state to pass a new law banning same-sex marriages" (NewsWeek). ... Just as anyone should be entitled to this without violating some sort of law or s...

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This contradicts the First Amendment to the Constitution, which clearly states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise therefore " Thus our forefathers pursued to protect all Americans. ... Virginia (extended) In 1967, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a Virginia state law prohibiting parties of different races from marrying (and similar laws in 15 other states) was unconstitutional and violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. ... The statutes deprived the Lovings of Liberty without due process of law in violation of the D...

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(Staggenbord, 2011: 118) The LGBT movement used the provincial human rights frameworks to their advantage, it was argued that human rights laws included protection on grounds of sexual orientation. ...

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He defines marriage as common emotional bonding and commitment between two people.4 Whereas, for Thomas Stoddard, New York University law professor and lesbian/gay rights lawyer, marriage is "legal status which rewards the two individuals" with substantial and practical advantages.5 (Stoddard, 14) Vacek and Steinfels put forth these definitions of marriage to oppose gay marriage while Wilson-Smith and Stoddard are staunch supporters of the legalization of gay marriage. ... To show how this ban is denying people's equal human dignity and freedom to share marriage, he uses landmark legal ...

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Nobody wants anyone to encroach upon his freedom, privacy, or choice. ... Due to the democracy, liberty, and freedom that the law emphasizes there, homosexuals dare, and are willing to express, their beliefs without fear, intimidation, or dismay. ... As a result, there is freedom their, not just in religion, but to question the religion, and the law. ...

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Until we become a society educated in all aspects and walks of life, we will always have prejudices, laws, and myths hindering us as a city, state, nation, or world to accelerate. ... When fighting for rights in our judicial system one author believes that "to be strong, arguments for the rights of gay men and lesbians should be cast in terms of justice, privacy, equality, and liberty, not in terms of lack of choice or genetic determinism" (Corvino 111). ...

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During the Carter Administration a clear policy was signed into law. ... The presence of such members adversely affects the ability of the Military Services to maintain discipline, good order, and morale: to foster mutual trust and confidence among service members; to ensure the integrity of the system of rank and command; to facilitate assignment and worldwide deployment of service members who frequently must live and work under close conditions affording minimal privacy; to recruit and retain members of the Military Services: to maintain the public acceptability of military service; and to p...

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I. Introduction Imagine a world in which every action or feeling must be suppressed in order to appeal to the overall norm. Unfortunately, this is a very vivid reality for many homosexuals who are silenced by society's overwhelming construct of heteronormativity. Jackson (2006) explains that heteron...

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