Same-sex marriage is the site of a vitriolic debate in mainline Christian denominations in the United States. Mainline Christian denominations bring together liberal, evangelical and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) Christians who employ disparate discourses that …
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This dissertation is about queer and trans folks who experienced houselessness during their youth, between the 1970s and the 2010s in Ontario, Canada. These archival and oral history stories serve to mobilize knowledge about community building, poverty, and identity-based discri…
The three-process model of opinion change, by Herbert Kelman, suggests people change their opinions through compliance, identification, or internalization. This dissertation used same-sex marriage as the vehicle to test and further the model, utilizing four pre-established scale…
What factors contribute to long-lasting marriages? The frequency of divorce in the United States has caused many researchers to study why marriages end and try to determine the contributing factors to marital break-ups and divorce. In the United States, more than 50% of marriage…
Often hailed as the civil rights movement of the twenty-first century, the same-sex marriage debate has swept across America. The most outspoken opposition to same-sex marriage is the Religious Right, which employs Scripture to support its argument that homosexuals are inferior …