Blog Stage 5

I’m auguring for same sex marriage. I chose this topic when I read an article on same sex unions.
  http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/same_sex_marriage/index.html
The question is, do we really believe that we are just following the guidelines of the constitution or is congress just a bunch of old white homophobes?   I believe that it is every person right to choice who they marry and fall in love with. When the government tells us who we can and can’t marry it’s time to take a look at our governments system. You have to ask yourself how serious do American takes marriage. We all know that most marriages end with 50 percent in divorce, yet most gay couples have been together longer then I’ve been alive. Medical News Today did a study comparing gay and heterosexual couples and found that gay couples were more satisfied with their relationships compared to married heterosexual couples.   So we let them get married then our divorce rate would drop. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/94695.php The next question you have to ask yourself is do American upholds marriage so persistently that they will obey all laws that were put in place decades ago? The answer should be, I hope not! Because these laws are outdated and wouldn’t work in today’s society. Here are some examples of outdated laws ; in Rhode Island you can have your marriage annulled just by declaring that the other person is an idiot or a lunatic. Or how about that First cousins may marry in Utah, but only after they’re 65 years old or in Michigan, a woman’s hair belongs to her husband. But this one truly up-holds the sanguinity of marriage, the law that states in South Carolina a husband is allowed to beat his wife on the courthouse steps on a Sunday. Or In Arizona, a man may legally beat his wife once a month, but no more. The only law that makes sense is in Colorado law states that a man cannot marry his wife’s grandmother. Good job Colorado at least you got one right. http://facts.randomhistory.com/crazy-laws.html obviously we do use the crazy laws anymore and it’s time to revise our laws on same-sex marriage. “Justice Samuel Alito described gay marriage as newer than such rapidly changing technological advances as cellphones and the Internet, and appeared to advocate a more cautious approach to the issue.”  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/03/court-could-avoid-ruling-on-gay-marriage-ban.html An example of this is Proposition 8 was a California ballot proposition from 2008, the proposition didn’t pass and California is only recognizes a marriage between a man and a woman.  This is a violation of  the 14^th amendment by  discriminates against homosexual couples , they argue by The “Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that "no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution The Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause applies only to state governments, but the requirement of equal protection. Also the last time that we regulated marriage was back in 1967 with Loving v. Virginia, was a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. The two lovers married but it was recognized in a court of law and they were convicted and even served jail time because it was consider a crime. Now, of days most of us think of how close minded that we were to let color stand in the way of love. Yet we are doing it again but with gender this time.  Love is love and a piece of paper writing way back in 1787 when we didn’t have equal rights shouldn’t matter in today society.

 

blog stage 4

he author Mark Gongloff  from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/february-jobs-report-jobs-unemployment-rate_n_2836174.html  has one main point, that we create as many jobs as we cut jobs. Mark Gongloff wants us to know the job unemployment has dropped 0.2 percent in the last four years. This is from the 236,000 jobs that were added in February for non-farming payroll incomes reported from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm,  job have gone up from 119,000 in January. However there are still 12 million people looking for jobs. Sadly, this statistic does not include college students who are about to graduate or high school students that will be looking for jobs and not attending college. I found out that according http://www.bls.gov/news.release/youth.nr0.htm  From April to July 2012, the number of employed youth 16 to 24 years old rose 2.1 million to 19.5 million, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Mark wants us to know that the government is trying to make it look like they are helping out the nation but really the job market is about the same, but they just added more jobs but didn’t include all age brackets. All though the author did point out that in “January job growth was revised down sharply, from 157,000 to 119,000 jobs. And the unemployment rate fell in large part because the labor force shrank by 130,000 workers. Labor-force participation has never recovered from the recession, suggesting either that large numbers of workers have retired early -- or have simply given up trying to find jobs.” I agree with mark that the economy is on a seesaw every time that we tipped the scale on added more jobs it’s because layoffs happened or people retired.  Mark is clearly speaking to speaking job seekers and the unemployed by using a republican approach. They believe that the answers do not lay with the government generally who keeps adding and cutting jobs, but rather with the people who should make a stand to have less government interference in the job market.