Legislating Sexuality
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On September 21, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of
Marriage Act, a bill proposed by Republican Bob Barr of Georgia in order to
prohibit the marriage of gay and lesbian couples.(CWA) Although this bill
cannot be called "unconstitutional", by forbidding the marriage of same-sex
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.... among U.S. citizens has
been a hotly debated issue. With the Civil War and Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation, slavery was prohibited. Women gained the right to vote with the
ratification of the Constitution's nineteenth amendment on August 26, 1920(Cooke,
157). Although African Americans gained suffrage through the fifteenth amendment
in 1870 (Cooke, 151), it was not until the passing of the Civil Rights Act of
1964 that they were actually freed from discrimination by the government(Cooke,
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