Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel that everyone who disagreed with what the government did should support their dissent with action--should turn their back on China in whatever way they...
...conclusion I came to was that my going had no political or moral repercussions. I was going to experience China's culture and hopefully come to a better understanding of it. My going was not an act of support of the current Communist regime, any more than my not going would have been an act of protest against...
...personnel department, have lived together for one year and attest that they have a "close and committed personal relationship involving shared responsibilities." Thomas F. Coleman, a law professor who directs California's Family Diversity Project, proposes that live-in couples "who have assumed mutual obligation of commitment and support for each other" be allowed to apply for a "certificate of domestic partnership" that would function like a marriage certificate...
...should be allowed more of the rights now accorded to married couples. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted by the firm of Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 54% agreed that "homosexual couples should be permitted to receive medical and life- insurance benefits from their partner's insurance policies." Yet there is little support for gay marriages: 69% said such arrangements should not be made legal, and 75% felt that gay couples should not be allowed to adopt children...
...drive for domestic-partnership rights. "Given the fact that we already allow legal gay relationships," writes Andrew Sullivan in the New Republic, "what possible social goal is advanced by framing the law to encourage those relationships to be unfaithful, undeveloped and insecure?" Marriage involves the obligation to support each other both in sickness and in health and to share financial benefits and burdens. It implies, at least in theory, a commitment to a long-term and monogamous relationship. The advent of the AIDS epidemic increases the stake that all of society has in promoting such relationships, for gays as well...