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Could someone provide a reference for the transcrip for the "N.J. Supreme Court Oral Arugments" section |
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== "Selected quotes" == |
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Are they really useful? ] 14:16, 17 October 2006 (UTC) |
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== Deleted Background material == |
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I snipped the following from the beginning of ''Background'' for being off-topic. Preserving it here in case parts merit use somewhere else. Also wondering what the source might be:<blockquote> |
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: Before the 21st century; gay people in most western and Islamic countries were severely discriminated against and consensual sexual acts were unlawful in most states and punishable by a death sentence as recent as the 1950s and 1960s in Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. Beginning in 1960; anti-gay laws were done away with or decriminalized throughout the Western World. The first same sex marriage in modern times in the western world took place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 1st October 1989 with the legal marriage of Axel & Eigil Axgil, along with ten other couples in Copenhagen. |
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: Today being a gay person in nearly all Islamic Countries is still punishable by death/ Even where there is no Government Law against being gay; Gay people can be arrested, tried and given a death sentence by the Religious Courts--even if one is not Islamic--such happened in the now famous ] case in Cairo in which many were arrested simply because they were thought to be gay. About the same time a seventeen year old private university student received a 17 years sentence in prison including 2 years hard labor, for posting a personal profile on a gay dating site. He stood accused of "offences" to the public good, the honor of society, and a contempt to moral principles and social tradition. He sentenced by the ] court in ] by A'laa Deen Shoja'a under the supervision court chief justices Rida Shazzli and Mohamed Moheb in 2004. In 2005 Iran executed by hanging two teenage boys who were in love with each other because they admitted to being gay. It is also illegal in Jamaica where every day 15 gay people are murdered and where letters and articles appear in the "Gleaner" justifying these crimes against humanity; admitting that you are gay anywhere in the Caribbean is like signing your own death warrant so it is not a place to go on honeymoon. |
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: In the Americas; many of the laws which discriminated against gay people and punished them with death sentences go back to the founding days of the English and Spanish Colonies. These laws were based chiefly on religious canons and superstitions. Many gay people were often accused of consorting with the Devil or being a witch. The first capital offense and execution for being gay and having consensual sex between two people of the same sex in the New World took place in 1566 in what is today Paris Island,South Carolina where a French translator and Guale Indian Chief were in love with each other and had consensual same sex. The chief was released. The translator was taken to St. Augustine, Florida and tried for ] and garroted secretly because he was 'a sodomite and a Lutheran' according to Johnathan Katz's Gay American History. |
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: It is strange that Thomas Jefferson, who wrote against cruel and unusual punishments in the US Constitutition, wrote into the revised colonial Laws of Virginia that those who were guilty of 'sodomy' should be punished not with death but in the case of a woman---have a hole one and one-half inch in diameter cut into her nose and if a man that he be castrated. As we can see this is cruel and unusual and makes no logical sense for such treatment during the age of Enligthenment/ Jefferson equated Sodomy with rape, bestiality, polygamy. However, at least a gay person would escape with their life. In England from 1492 to 1890; gay people could be sentenced to transportation (the lightest sentence) or drawn and quartered , boiled in Oil or and then hung and burned or given hard labor with a lengthy jail sentence. A century later; the situation had improved somewhat but still was bad. Oscar Wilde was sentenced to hard labor at Reading Goal (pronounced 'redding') which greatly injured his health and left him a broken man. He was forbidden to see Bossie, his life partner, again but did in France briefly where Napoleon had made life more confortable for gay people in his codes. In 1950; England decriminalized gay people and in the 21st century recognized same sex marriages while the United States lingered in the past on these issues. |
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: Later other States enacted laws that dealt with ] which were rather arrogant ignorant laws that did not recognize that homosexuality occurs in all life forms and is just as natural as is heterosexuality. Yet as late as 2005; a man was arrested in North Carolina for 'crimes against nature" even after such laws were ruled invalid. |
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: The Hawaiian Supreame Court ruled in 1996 in Baehr v. Miike, 80 Hawai`i 341 that it was unconstitutional to not allow same sex marriages. This had the effect of putting up a wall of defenses on the Continent among State Legistlatures. Sadly, Hawaii,(aways traditionally has been one of the most unbiased and non-discriminatory places on earth from the time it was a Nation to a State) through the efforts of the Christian right wrote discrimination into their constitution to restrict marriage between a Man and a Woman, only. |
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: On 26 June 2006; the US Supreame Court ruled in Lawrence vs Texas that consensual sex between consenting same sex people is legal and that all Laws throughou the United States which are to the contrary are unlawful and unconstitutional. This ruling opened the way for legal recognitition of same sex marriages.</blockquote> |
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— ] 08:25, 28 October 2006 (UTC) |
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