Word: genderism
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...rationale for supporting gay rights is simple. First, sexual orientation is a fundamental characteristic of one's identity, just as race, gender or upbringing. Second, those aspects of our identities which we cannot control, cause no harm and are not relevant to doing a given job ought not be the basis of discrimination. Third, as a society we should pass those laws that turn what ought to be into reality, and live our lives accordingly...
...chair of the California Civil RightsInitiative, Connerly is widely credited forplacing the 1996 referendum on the ballot. By anarrow majority, California voters accepted StateProposition 209, which banned the use of immutablecharacteristics like race, gender or nationalorigin in state actions and programs...
...comparison between past movements for racial/gender equity and the current pro-queer movement. Oppenheim inherits the subtler arguments of those who would keep women in the kitchen and blacks at the back of the bus because they felt society was not ready. At one point, America looked unready for gender and racial equality; radical activism changed that. If America looks unready for non-heterosexual orientations to be accepted, it is because we are hopefully in the process of moving towards acceptance...
...seems they do deserve such integration. After all, we do not expect any other group to be shunned to the margins and only politically tolerated. Our culture no longer presumes human beings to be white or professionals to be male. Our mores are now far more racially- and gender-inclusive. However, the acceptance of racial and gender difference may have been possible in our society only because such inclusions did not involve revision of our basic moral principles...
...take three questions: Where are we? How did we get here? Where are we going?" he said. "We break them down and look at them in different ways [through] class, gender, the generation...