Gay Marriage - DOMA, 14th Amendment & Supreme Court | HISTORY

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE
• HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG – ARE STRAIGHT AND GAY MARRIAG INTIL?
• WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAY MARRIAGE?
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

GAY MARRIAGE

Scholars and the general public beme creasgly terted the issue durg the late 20th century, a perd when attus toward homosexualy and laws regulatg homosexual behavur were liberalized, particularly wtern Europe and the Uned issue of same-sex marriage equently sparked emotnal and polil clash between supporters and opponents. Cultur that openly accepted homosexualy, of which there were many, generally had nonmaral tegori of partnership through which such bonds uld be exprsed and socially regulated. Relig and secular expectatns of marriage and sexualy Over time the historil and tradnal cultur origally rerd by the lik of Bachofen and Man slowly succumbed to the homogenizatn imposed by lonialism.

In other s, the cultural homogeney supported by the domant relign did not rult the applitn of doctre to the civic realm but may nohels have fostered a smoother seri of discsns among the cizenry: Belgium and Spa had legalized same-sex marriage, for stance, spe official opposn om their predomant relig stutn, the Roman Catholic Church. Most of the world religns have at some pots their histori opposed same-sex marriage for one or more of the followg stated reasons: homosexual acts vlate natural law or dive tentns and are therefore immoral; passag sacred texts nmn homosexual acts; and relig tradn regniz only the marriage of one man and one woman as valid.

HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG – ARE STRAIGHT AND GAY MARRIAG INTIL?

The fai and iends of lbian and gay upl who are nied marriage rights may also experience negative physil and mental health nsequenc siar to those experienced by their loved on.

The vast majory of scientific studi that have directly pared lbian and gay parents wh heterosexual parents have nsistently shown that the same-sex upl are as f and pable parents as heterosexual upl, and that their children are jt as psychologilly healthy and well adjted. ConnecticutKansasNew MexiUtahDelawareMaeNevadaVirgiaFloridaMarylandNew YorkVermontIn some stat, cludg Arkansas, South Dakota, and Kentucky, the state ernment has not yet legalized same sex marriage, but their bans agast gay marriage have been led Sex Marriage and the Supreme CourtIt is no secret that the Supreme Court has had s fair share of s ncerng same sex marriag, some of which have been major victori for same sex upl across the ridge v Department of Public HealthOn November 18, 2003, the Massachetts Supreme Court beme the first to le that the state’s ban on same sex marriage was unnstutnal.

This landmark lg by a state supreme urt was the rult of a lawsu filed 2001 by a group lled the Gay & Lbian Advot and Defenrs (“GLAD”) on behalf of seven same sex upl, each of which were tablished, long term relatnships. Currently, over 55 percent of Amerins support same sex marriage rights, wh 8 out of 10 young adults favorg gay marriage three percent of people intify as lbian, gay, or bisexualAcrdg to the 2010 Uned Stat Cens Bure, there are more than 600, 000 same sex uple hoeholds the U.

WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAY MARRIAGE?

For stance, 45% of adults the Silent Generatn (those born between 1928 and 1945) favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, pared wh 74% of Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996).

4As wh the general public, Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) are most likely to ce love as a very important reason for gettg married. Sce then, several other European untri – cludg England and Wal, France, Ireland, all of Sndavia, Spa and, most recently, Atria, Germany and Malta – have legalized gay marriage. In April 2009 the Iowa Supreme Court overturned a state law that barred gay marriage, and soon afterward the legislatur of Vermont, Mae, and New Hampshire legalized same-sex marriage—though November 2009 Mae voters repealed the law.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups.

Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.