What was your overall impression of Sin Nombre?
Did it change your views on immigration policy?
What surprised you most about the film?
Should immigrants fleeing gang violence be given asylum under US law?
Does the US have any responsibility in dealing with rampant violence?
(Please respond to the questions above in ONE paragraph total, do not write a paragraph for each question. Simply weave your responses into a comprehensive paragraph. )
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Questions 1-3 located in paragraph 1
1. Who is Roy Moore?
2. What did his judicial order do?
3. What was his legal reasoning for this order?
4. What does the phrase "redefining marriage" translate to in "conservative code?" (located in paragraph 4)
5. What reason (s) do progressives reject this notion? (located in paragraph 6)
6. Do the courts have the power to redefine marriage? (located in paragraph 8)
7. What question, beyond the fact that marriage is an institution, is involved in this issue? (located in paragraph 9)
8. What is an institution? What questions should the American people be answering surrounding these questions? (located in paragraph 10)
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ReplyDeleteQuestions 1-3 located in paragraph 1
1. Who is Roy Moore?
Roy Moore, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, escalated the conflict over same-sex marriage
2. What did his judicial order do?
ordered probate judges in the state not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples,
3. What was his legal reasoning for this order?
There’s nothing in the U.S. Constitution that authorizes the Supreme Court of the United States or any federal court anywhere to misinterpret the word marriage to include something outside that.”
4. What does the phrase "redefining marriage" translate to in "conservative code?" (located in paragraph 4)
The phrase “redefining marriage,” of course, is conservative political code. Those words signal the following claims: Marriage is defined as traditional marriage, that is, between a man and a woman. If the Supreme Court were to allow same-sex marriage, that would be a change in the definition.
5. What reason (s) do progressives reject this notion? (located in paragraph 6)
It is biased, according to this reaction, to take marriage to be defined as traditional marriage
6. Do the courts have the power to redefine marriage? (located in paragraph 8)
The courts do not have the power to redefine marriage because it is society as a whole that builds institutions
7. What question, beyond the fact that marriage is an institution, is involved in this issue? (located in paragraph 9)
The question at hand is not about the word, but about the institution that the word refers to. Is the institution that includes same-sex couples the same institution as before, or is it a newly created one? To resolve this, we need to think about the nature of institutions.
8. What is an institution? What questions should the American people be answering surrounding these questions? (located in paragraph 10)
Institutions are a product of society, so if we want answers about how we carve them out, we need to look at society.
We need to answer questions like these: How do people typically understand the institution? What have they actually done, historically, in their practices? (How people have acted can differ from how they think they have acted.) What are the roles and functions the practices play in the society? These kinds of social facts anchor the institutions we have.