Word: sexualism
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Banks likens the debate over transracial adoption to the question of whether same-sex couples can be suitable parents. "It is true that [the children of gay couples are] more likely to experiment sexually when they're older, and they're less likely to be he-men or girly girls. But you could argue that that's a good thing to not have such starkly defined gender differences. It's a question of what counts as a good sexual identity." Treating parents differently because they want to adopt across racial lines would suggest "there's something abnormal about transracial adoption...
...working for the Boston archdiocese in the early 1990s, Sister Catherine Mulkerrin blew the whistle on the emerging sexual-abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church, confronting her bosses about the myriad complaints she had fielded regarding priests sexually abusing children and pushing for that information to be disclosed to parishioners. Her warnings went unheeded, and when the scandal exploded in 2002, the church's inaction became a source of shame. Mulkerrin's memos were later used in a lawsuit against the archdiocese...
...completely honest about such an important part of who I am,” he said. “I’m prevented from serving my country in the most open and sincere way.” On May 24, Harvard students—regardless of sexual orientation or desire to serve in the military—will embark on a week-long coalition-sponsored trip around the east coast to protest the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. The tour, entitled “Right to Serve...
...armed into putting up with the institution when enough Democrats and enough states have shown their commitment. So advocates of gay marriage have mistakenly abandoned attempts to appeal to a base whose values may not be so far off from their own. Marriage is associated with long-term commitment, sexual monogamy, and other healthy lifestyle choices that are in line with socially conservative values...
...Fewer and fewer Americans believe that gay Americans are gay out of lifestyle choice only. Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama chalk sexual orientation up to some combination of biological and environmental factors. If they are right, then to oppose same-sex marriage is to oppose a societal avenue toward commitment, toward monogamy, and toward maintaining social structures that are in line with mainstream society. Given that a prevailing criticism of gay Americans is that their lifestyles are licentious, then encouraging them to pursue more conservative ends is an appropriate measure to make homosexuality less “objectionable...