In 1989, the California Bar Association declared that gay marriage, will be legally recognized in the city of Seattle and in San Francisco. ... In February 2004, San Francisco started marrying gay couples, and New Mexico began to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. ... But in March 2004, the California Supreme Court ordered San Francisco to put an end to marrying same sex couples. ...

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The recent uproar in Massachusetts and San Francisco has added more fuel to the fire. ... Many areas of the country such as San Francisco have started performing marriage ceremonies in defiance of the law. ...

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The best that rational medical workers have succeeded in doing here in San Francisco is distribute educational leaflets and cartoons to the I.V. drug abusing population instructing them in the necessity of their rinsing their "works" with Clorox before reusing the same needle in another person. ... It is particularly encouraging to note that, due to education programs among San Francisc...

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To interpret this we can say that there are a lot of prejudiced people towards gays and lesbians in San Francisco outside of the "Castro" where the majority of the people there are gay, lesbian or bisexual. ...

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Abstract Much of the current media sources assume the question is a solved scientific problem with all the evidence pointing toward a biological basis for a homosexual orientation, indicating that people can be born gay. Contrary to this perception, the question has been poorly studied, although the...

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There is a social unrest in America these days regarding the Government's denial of the right to marry to many homosexual. Those completely against gay marriage, mainly conservatives and neo-Christian politicians who are using religious arguments to establish that sexuality is an atrocity. While on the other side you have liberals who are fighting for the equal treatment of the gay community which is clearly supported by the 10th and 14th amendment in the United States Constitution. While the belief system of the politicians is what they are basing their ideals on, this country was founde...

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Does the equal protection clause in the fourteenth amendment guarantee same-sex couples the right to marry? If same-sex marriage were to be federally legalized would the sturdy backbone of our culture be broken? Is it not morally wrong to deny the citizens of the United States of America the basic human right to marry? Is it governments place to define marriage and love? The United States of America is desperately striving to answer these intense questions but it seems that everyone has a different opinion on what is moral and what is lawful. ...

• Word Count: 2296
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate