Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back as well. And that is where Clinton gets his opening: if elected, he will argue, the Republicans will revert to their true nature and make up the shortfalls by gutting Medicare and kicking welfare mothers and children into the street. Republicans are starting to make a similar argument about Clinton and what a second term would mean: he may be saying all the right things, but you'll never know his real intentions until it is too late, when he's back in the White House brandishing a mandate and freed from having to face the voters again...
...most persuasive advocates of same-sex marriage is Andrew Sullivan, the departing editor of the New Republic. His writings suggest the following syllogism: Marriage is for people who love; homosexuals love; ergo marriage is for them. He and others push the argument further by claiming that denying homosexuals access to this fundamental societal institution is a denial of their civil and human rights. Citing the philosopher Hannah Arendt, who proposed same-sex marriage in a pioneering 1959 essay, Sullivan suggests that the right to marry whomever one wishes is an elementary human right, part of the Declaration's inalienable right...
...ALSO LIE WITH MANKIND, AS HE LIETH WITH A WOMAN, BOTH OF THEM HAVE COMMITTED AN ABOMINATION. --Leviticus 20:13 The primary argument against same-sex marriage is really a religious animus against homosexuality. In short, homosexuality is a grave sin in the eyes of God and should not be condoned or comforted by the mystical union of marriage, which is a covenant with God. Opponents of same-sex marriage point to the fact that disapproval of homosexual behavior is one of the most deeply rooted and consistent moral teachings in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions...
Cicero's statement reflects what is known as the natural-law argument against same-sex unions. This is the idea that marriage evolved in society over thousands of years as a childbearing union between a man and a woman, and that there is a profound wisdom in the tradition that should not be lightly discarded. Virtuecrat William J. Bennett contends that same-sex marriages "would do significant long-term social damage" to "society's most important institution." And that stretching the definition of marriage would jeopardize an already shaky institution...
...elderly heterosexuals' marrying. Why should they have the right to marry and not homosexuals? But social scientist Wilson believes the raising of children remains the central role of marriage because "we have found nothing else that works as well." Besides, both Bennett and Wilson say, Sullivan undermines his own argument that the absence of children should not be an impediment to gay marriages when he says that it will give gay couples "greater freedom" to enjoy "extramarital outlets." Marriage, Bennett says, is not an open construct; "its essential idea is fidelity...