AOW #18: Supreme Court Set to Decide National Debate on Gay Marriage

This weeks article of the week is on Gay Marriage, and how the Supreme Court set to decide a National Debate on it. This article really kind of made me angry, and any subject like this usually does. I do not think it should be illegal for same-sex marriage. You cannot help who you love rather it be the same sex as you or not, love is love. It really makes me mad when I see gay people being judged for it.

Why make them feel bad about themselves for being with someone that makes them happy? They should have the same equal rights as straight couples that get married. I do not see why the court feels the need to have to take so much time of their lives to argue over if they should pass same-sex marriage or not. According to this article they set aside 2 ½ hours last April just to argue over it. To me this is discrimination. I am by no means gay, but I do have quite a few close family members that are, and i love them to death.

I would never treat them any different because of who they love. Can you imagine how they feel having to fight to marry who they want to be happy with? Just let them have peace. As the article said “The outcome could be a landmark ruling giving gay and lesbian couples a right to marry nationwide under the constitution’s protections for individual liberty and equal treatment”(Savage 1). I think this is how it should have been all along.

Why are they just now bringing up the constitution's protections for equal treatment? Especially after all these years of nip picking and fighting marriage for gays. I know some it has to do with religion and Christians fighting it, but if you are anywhere near a christian or a religious person then you aren't suppose to judge people and should treat everyone equally.Why not just make it legal and let them live a happy life?

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AOW #17: Three Articles About Charlie Hebdo

This weeks Article Of The Week was really confusing to me. I guess Charlie Hebdo created a cartoon in a magazine making fun of Muhammad. So on Wednesday January 7th, three masked men came to the Paris office where the magazine Charlie Hebdo was and shot and killed 12 people and 2 of those 12 were police officers. I guess this is not the first time this has happened, about 4 years ago they were firebombed for making fun of Muhammad. Yes, everybody has “freedom of speech” but they should be prepared that if you are going to make fun of someone and put it in a magazine then you should be ready to suffer the consequences from your actions.

ISIS believes that no one should make fun of or talk badly about Muhammad. It was said in the article that a London based editor sent an email and said “It should be “the best it can be” but asked staff to question whether the terrorist attack was “really an attack on free speech” (Jenkins 1). I really truly believe that it most definitely was an attack on free speech, I mean they did kill all those people because of what Charlie Hebdo said in the magazine. I don’t blame them for being angry, but to kill someone over something they said is taking to the extreme.

That is insane! I agree, that the cartoon drawing was not that bad, it is definitely how they said it. When you make fun of people and say stuff like that you should be prepared to be attacked. It is good that they apologized for making fun and promised to never do it again, but it is a little too late for that since they already pissed them off. Now that these people are angry, they probably are not going to give up this battle. Obviously, they really hate being laughed at and if they knew that after all the other times then why continue to make fun of?

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AOW #16: Eating too much added sugar may be killing you

This weeks article of the week is about how eating too much added sugars in food could be killing people. We all know that all the bad sweets we love to eat is bad for us. Sodas, cakes, cookies, and any kind of candy you eat has so much unhealthy added sugars in it. People do not realize that when they go to the doctor most causes of diabetes, high blood pressure, and most commonly obesity is caused from eating too much of added sugars that's in food. It would not hurt for people in the United States to stay on a healthy diet and actually replace all these sweets with fruits and vegetables.

I can honestly see why obesity is so bad in the United States, just one can of the regular can of soda contains over 140 calories of added sugars. That is insane, imagine how many cans a soda a day just one person drinks? All Americans diets consist of anymore is sugar-sweetened foods like ice creams, cakes, candies, etc.. I think it all starts in their early childhood years because all you see is little kids walking around eating this kind of stuff anymore. I think that the companies that distribute and make this stuff should be made to make it with healthier alternatives besides all those added sugars.

Most people’s daily 2,000 calorie diet is taken up from all the added sugars, over 300 calories a day is just from added sugars in our food. If people would just learn to eat healthy, it would help get rid of all these unwanted added sugars in their body. As stated in the USA Today’s article “People who consumed seven or more servings a week of sugar-sweetened beverages were 29% higher risk of death from heart disease than those who consumed one serving or less”(Hellmich 2). I honestly believe it, when people are consuming all those added sugars and fattening foods they are taking away from their nutrients in their body. They have a higher risk of getting blocked arteries in their hearts from all these added sugars which will cause problems with your heart like heart disease. Eating unhealthy has become such a problem, not many people follow proper diets in this world anymore.

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