Posts Tagged equality
Going Down Ugly
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on June 10th, 2011
According to a March, 2011 survey from Pew, 58% of Americans believe that homosexuality should be accepted, while 33% believe it should not be. Leaving aside what the individuals surveyed thought constituted “acceptance,” this is yet another indicator that the cultural tide is flowing in the right direction; indeed, when the survey responses were broken [...]
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Cultural Whiplash
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on March 20th, 2011
Who are we supposed to believe, our lying eyes or the polls? On the one hand, efforts to marginalize gays—to label them as permanently “other,” as second or third-class citizens—have heated up since the advent of the Tea Party and the 2010 elections. Here in Indiana, we have seen the resurrection of efforts to constitutionalize [...]
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Us versus Them, Redux
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on July 11th, 2010
When I was growing up in Anderson, Indiana, Jews were often viewed as an alien species. I can remember being asked—in all seriousness—whether Jews had tails, and whether we lived in houses, like “real people.” In addition to these innocent if disconcerting questions, I also remember being called a “dirty Jew” for the first (but [...]
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