That cold war conformity gave rise to new forms of sexual and social order in the first decade or two after the second world war. We talked about how the cold war conformity established a white suburban, middle class heterosexuality as the domestic ideal and norm in america, and how Nuclear Families came to be the kind of central calling card of american normalcy. That, in turn of course, as we have discussed before, left a lot of other people outside that norm, especially those left behind in american cities, including people of color, and those who are choosing not to get married in what was the most marrying generation in American History. Namely lesbians and gay men, but not exclusively so. Those groups, as we talked about before, came to be seen as socially and sexually deviant, as threats to American Family and democracy, and as people who should be excluded from society and the abundance of the postwar economic order. Now we are moving into the late 1960s and early 1970s to look
I want to spend a little bit of time setting that up for you, and then we will move right in to a discussion of some of the issues. For the last couple of weeks weve been talking about the ways that cold war conformity gave rise to new forms of sexual and social order in the first decade or two after the second world war. Weve talked about how the cold war conformity established a white suburban middle class heterosexuality as the domestic ideal and norm in america and how Nuclear Families came to be the kind of central calling card of american normalcy. That, in turn, of course, as we discussed before, left a lot of other people out in side that norm, especially those who were left behind in american cities, including people of color and those who were choosing not to get married in what was the most marrying generation in American History, namely lesbians and gay men, but not exclusively so. But those groups as we talked about before came to it be seen as socially and sexually devian
That generated as much heat and animus as this topic did. Please help me welcome a man who stood up to argue and to defend what our nations highest court has now recognized as a constitutional right, professor geoffrey stone. [applause] thank you. Im delighted to be here. My talk this afternoon derives from a book that i am currently finishing titled sex and the constitution. Although the book addresses such issues as obscenity, contraception, homosexuality generally, abortion and so on, i decided to focus specifically this afternoon on the issue of samesex marriage, an issue that cuts to the very heart of the meaning of equal citizenship. In august of 1982, an Atlanta Police officer went to the home of Michael Hardwick to serve an arrest warrant for public drinking. Upon entering the home, he observed hardwick and another man engaged in oral sex. The officer placed both men under arrest for the crime of sodomy. In the case decided in 1986, the Supreme Court held that the homosexual so
The declaration tells us that rights come from god, not government. [ applause ] the constitution has a framework thats set up not as some kind of result of bureaucratic haggling, but as something is designed to protect, promote freedom. And the president is right. In many way, we are a shining city on a hill. But the hard truth is that not everyone is sharing in this citys slender and glory. A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the port ko of the white house and the ver randa of thiz ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But theres another city. Another part to the shining city. The part where some people cant pay their mortgages. And most young people cant afford one. Where students cant afford the education they need and middle class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children evaporate. In this part of the city, there are more poor than ever. More families in trouble. More and more people who need help, but cant find it. Even worse. There are elde
Penny auctions were collective actions to help farmers during the Great Depression. When a farm was foreclosed upon and sold by the lending financial institution at auction, the crowd would conspire to bid a trivial amount and return the land and assets to the farmer. Unfortunately for many tribal members, no similar strategy was available two decades later when they were forced from the lands they had lived on for millennia to make room for the Garrison Dam and the lake it would create.