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No Longer A Question of Morality: Gay Rights in the United States. In 1999,
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Submitted by Darquin on November 6, 2006
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In 1999, the Mount Diablo Council of the Boy Scouts of America rejected the application of Timothy Curran, who was applying for the position of Assistant Scoutmaster, on the basis that he was of homosexual orientation; Curran sued, but in the end, the courts rejected Curran’s claim and sided with the Council (“Curran v. Mount…”, 1999). The decision ended up sparking much anger and confusion within the gay and lesbian community, and rightly so. Would the decision have differed had the discrimination been based on a religious issue instead of an orientation-based one? Had Curran been Jewish rather than gay, would the same verdict have been reached? The answer is arguably no; the US Civil Rights Act prevents employers from discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin” (“Civil Rights…”, 1964). The question, then, is whether or not lesbians and gay men can be classified into one of those categories. With further research, the answer is obvious; homosexuals are a unique, distinct group of people that do indeed fit into the definition of a “race”. Thus – in addition to the basis provided for gay and lesbian rights in the US Constitution – lesbians and gay men are entitled to the rights, freedoms and privileges other races are entitled to, as declared in the Civil Rights Act, the Constitution of the United States, and, by responsibility, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a race as “a class or kind of people unified by community of interests, habits, or characteristics” (“Merriam-Webster…”, 2004). The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines a race as “a group of people united and classified together on the basis of common history”, and additionally “human beings considered as a group” (“Canadian Oxford…”, 2001). Men and women of homosexual orientation can be related to each of these definitions; they are “unified by community of interests, habits, or characteristics”, they share a common...
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