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In fact, Wilde seems to be making important commentary on Victorian society itself, contending that something may reveal a perfect...

manner inconsistent with the intentions of the people in enacting that provision. Yet that is precisely what has happened in the S...

homosexuality was not a lifestyle in the eighteenth century. Rather, having sex with someone of the same gender was something that...

opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...

of fancy, at least in her imagination. Austen states, "She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys...

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

writer, for this, relied primarily on both pictorial representations of the period (through highly stylized paintings) and writing...

said they had an obligation to give witness to the whole moral truth and reinforce Catholic teaching that gay sex is a sin" (Bisho...

looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...

When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...

of gay marriage actually found its way into the patchwork of society. "Lesbian behavior does not fit within that framework of pub...

that the state must show that there are compelling reasons why marriage license should be issued only to heterosexual couples (Dor...

and Ms. Evans are members of a fundamentalist sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints (Mormons); this sect believ...

It could be said that the ban, as well, could likely violate the concept of equality, which is also implied in the Constitution (T...

women being "accepted in the diaconate which is a part of Holy Orders" (Womens Ordination Conference, n.d.; also see The Campaign ...

of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...

establish a legal precedent in 1967 which declared bans on interracial marriages as unconstitutional that states were forced to re...

In four pages this paper examines how the definition of marriage has changed over the years with same sex unions among the topics ...

this case, the spouse can also learn about why men cheat (either by talking with other people who have gone through similar situat...

do arise in marriages that are not foreseen by the partners at the time that they marry. Problems with in-laws, money and sex are...

The primary reason for dating, though it is strictly on a subconscious and biological level, is to find and obtain a mate for the ...

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...

is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...

in a same-sex marriage. The definition of marriage states that it is a union of two people of the opposite sex. Given...

of marriage and those who are against same-sex marriages argue that this issue will only serve to erode the institution even furth...

family rights" (Farrell 130; Stacey and Biblarz 159). In September of 2000, the Dutch parliament followed suit by also granting e...

decision to allow gay marriages, a new Pew Center poll shows 59 percent of Americans oppose such marriages, thats up from 55 perce...

from welcoming" (Watson, 1991, p. 350). The traditional rural peasant view of daughters is still that they are "excess baggage." W...

also in case law. Case law has given many good and worthwhile definition of marriage, one f the first is in the of Hyde v. Hyde an...