Modern Day Example- Jo Becker tells about the fight for marriage equality in her new book, "Forcing the Spring". There was a 2008 anti-gay-marriage California ballot initiative that called for amending the state constitution to say that the state would only recognize marriage between a man and a women. The legal team arguing in support of gay marriage was headed by high-profile lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies; they were opponents in the Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore, after the contested 2000 election. Andrew Sillivan, who has written extensively about gay rights and marriage equality, posted a long piece on his blog, the Dish, condemning the book for its portrayal of the marriage equality movement. He charges Becker with giving too much credit to the team that challenged gay marriage and too little credit to everyone in the marriage equality movement who preceded them or pursued a different strategy- including Sullivan himself. The gay rights community had a strategy. They thought they needed to have 30 states with some form of recognition whether it was marriage, or civil unions but they went to the federal courts. What was really interesting was it echoes of the kind of similar debate that took place in the previous century over the civil rights fights that African- Americans waged.
This connects to equality because this problem with gay marraige in certain states made it unfair for some people. They were allowing gay rights in some states but banning it from others. People didn't want to stand for this, so they started to write about it, go to court and do much more. People need to be equal and be able to do the same as everyone else. Equality means that everyone needs to be treated the same and with this modern day example that is not happening.
Curriculum Event-The Missouri compromise kept the number of slave and free states equal. Congress drew an imaginary line across the southern border of Missouri at latitude 36 30N. Slavery was permitted in the part of the Louisiana purchase south of that line. It was banned north of the Missouri compromise line. This law was passed in 1820. Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase, except for Missouri. The Missouri compromise was impelled by the Kansas-Nebraska act submitted to congress by Stephen A. Douglas in January 1854.
The connection to equality is that with the Missouri compromise this helped to create equality. They made the number of slave and free states equal. To keep everyone equal they created the imaginary line across the southern border of Missouri so that the amount of slave and free states would be the same. Before this happened the amount of slave and free states were not equal and did not have equality but now because of the Missouri compromise it is equal.
This connects to equality because this problem with gay marraige in certain states made it unfair for some people. They were allowing gay rights in some states but banning it from others. People didn't want to stand for this, so they started to write about it, go to court and do much more. People need to be equal and be able to do the same as everyone else. Equality means that everyone needs to be treated the same and with this modern day example that is not happening.
Curriculum Event-The Missouri compromise kept the number of slave and free states equal. Congress drew an imaginary line across the southern border of Missouri at latitude 36 30N. Slavery was permitted in the part of the Louisiana purchase south of that line. It was banned north of the Missouri compromise line. This law was passed in 1820. Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase, except for Missouri. The Missouri compromise was impelled by the Kansas-Nebraska act submitted to congress by Stephen A. Douglas in January 1854.
The connection to equality is that with the Missouri compromise this helped to create equality. They made the number of slave and free states equal. To keep everyone equal they created the imaginary line across the southern border of Missouri so that the amount of slave and free states would be the same. Before this happened the amount of slave and free states were not equal and did not have equality but now because of the Missouri compromise it is equal.