Virginia reich.The new law in Virginia forbidding same-sex couples A same-sex couple is a pair of people of the same gender who pursue a romantic or sexual relationship together. The term "same-sex relationship" may be used when the sexual orientation of participants in a same-sex relationship is not known. front creating contracts that secure the same legal fights as those who are married reminds me of Germany's infamous Nuremberg laws Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of citizenship and civil rights (1935). [Ger. Hist.: Wigoder, 458] See : Anti-Semitism of the 1930s [At Issue, June 8]. Similarly, they rescinded the long-established legal fights of Jews and other minorities. In 1937 one of these even disallowed the marriage of Jews to gentiles. Now, nearly a century later, as many are celebrating the granting of marriage rights to gays in Massachusetts, the actions of a paranoid par·a·noid adj. Relating to, characteristic of, or affected with paranoia. n. One affected with paranoia. and misguided general assembly of Virginia threaten to take us back to that dark time in history. We must get outraged and react now! Just as an organized boycott of Arizona forced the state to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we should boycott Virginia. In relegating gays to second-class citizenship, Virginia forcibly forc·i·ble adj. 1. Effected against resistance through the use of force: The police used forcible restraint in order to subdue the assailant. 2. Characterized by force; powerful. reminds us that to retain the justice and equality this country was founded on, we must all continue to fight. Chad Ghosh, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , N. Y. |
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