Should Gay Marriage Be Legal? 6 Pros and Cons

Contents:

• LET’S SAY GAY
• FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL IS CEL AND DANGERO
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• THE SUPREME COURT’S RULG ON REFG GAY BS
• WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE LG MEANS FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ IS POPULAR? YOU DON’T SAY
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF GAY RIGHTS? MORE LAWSUS
• WHEN REAGAN SAID GAY
• A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• HIDN BRA: AMERI'S CHANGG ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE

LET’S SAY GAY

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Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual owners of bs challengg those laws have argued that the ernment should not force them to choose between the requirements of their fahs and their livelihoods. ETFriday’s lg was another reassurg cisn for relig celebratory moment outsi the Supreme Court on Friday, after the urt livered the latt a strg of judgments favor of relig Zuhaib/Associated PrsConservativ who have moral and theologil objectns to gay marriage saw the Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday as reassurance that they would be able to assert their beliefs a public square that they see as creasgly hostile to a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the jtic agreed wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people. ETHere’s how urt battl over servg same-sex upl have played out the Cote for The New York TimIn the latt se volvg same-sex marriage rights, relig eedom and discrimatn, the Supreme Court on Friday led favor of a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right not to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that bans discrimatn agast gay ’s a brief look at some of the most proment s before Friday’s:A Colorado baker ws urtIn June 2018, the Supreme Court led favor of a Colorado baker who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple.

FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL IS CEL AND DANGERO

The urt’s cisn mak easier for bs Bra to cle ctomer requts that are at odds wh their dispute began 2014, when Gareth Lee, a gay rights activist Northern Ireland, sought to buy a ke for a party om Ashers Bakg Company Belfast that showed two “Same Street” characters, Bert and Ernie; a logo for his group, QueerSpace; and the slogan supportg gay marriage. ”Invatn signers sue the cy of PhoenixThe Arizona Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments January after two Christian vatn signers said they would refe to create weddg vatns for same-sex upl if Da and Breanna Koski, evangelil Christians and the owners of Bsh & Nib Stud, sued the cy of Phoenix 2016, sayg they feared legal retributn if they did not fulfill requts om gay or lbian upl. After the 2020 electn, Colorado bee a center of electn nspiraci, a e embraced by some of s state is “a nice enpsulatn on what lims have been placed on the Christian right and what power and fluence they n still yield, ” William Schultz, a historian at the Universy of Chigo Divy School who is workg on a book about Christian culture Colorado Sprgs, said last 1992, voters the state passed what was nsired at the time to be an unual ballot iative prohibg Colorado om regnizg gay, lbian and bisexual people as a protected class.

”The se, though amed as a clash between ee speech and gay rights, was the latt a seri of cisns favor of relig people and groups, notably nservative Christians, who celebrated the lg on Friday as a victory for relig dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor lled the lg “profoundly wrong, ” argug that the Colorado anti-discrimatn law “targets nduct, not speech, for regulatn, and the act of discrimatn has never nstuted protected exprsn unr the First Amendment. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTlettersImageLorie Smh, center, said her Christian fah required her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Moneymaker/Getty ImagTo the Edor:Re “Web Digner Ws Right to Turn Away Gay People” (ont page, July 1):Given the Supreme Court’s track rerd throughout the past year — cludg, most notably, the guttg of affirmative actn and feral abortn protectns — I shouldn’t have been surprised when, along iologil l, led favor of a web signer who would refe a same-sex uple seekg her servic. It would be sweet jtice if the Thomas were nied service when they try to orr an anniversary other words, this is a slippery BudzskiEvanston, the Edor:Re “Christians and Drag Queens Both Defend the First Amendment, ” by David French (lumn, July 1):I agree that eedom of speech clus both lettg someone give hateful speech (if not cg vlence) and also not forcg someone to speak agast their said, how is a web signer who creat a weddg page for a gay uple seen as beg forced to speak agast her nscience?

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

“The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds.

THE SUPREME COURT’S RULG ON REFG GAY BS

“We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.

Uned StatGLAAD (2023, )84% of non-LGBTQ people support equal LGBTQ rightsJapanAsahi Shimbun (2023, )72% of voters support the legalizatn of gay marriage18% do not support EstoniaEstonian Human Rights Centre (2023, )53% of Estonians support marriage equalyPhilippSocial Weather Statns (2023, )79% of Filipos agree that gays and lbians are jt as tstworthy as any other FilipoUned KgdomYouGov (2023, )78% of Brons say they support same-sex marriageGreecediaNEOsis (2022, )51.

WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE LG MEANS FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS

43% of US youth (13-18)BrazilDatafolha (2022, )80% of Brazilians thk homosexualy should be accepted by societyMongoliaReportOUT (2022, )93% believe negative sual jok about LGBTQ+ people are monplace everyday life81% believe polil discsn about LGBTQ+ rights is rare or very rare59% believe offensive language about the LGBTQ+ muny om polil is monBrazilDatafolha (2022, )79% Thk homosexualy should be accepted by society as a wholeUkraeNash Sv Center (2022, )63.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ IS POPULAR? YOU DON’T SAY

2% of people are fortable beg LGBT VanuatuUned StatGLAAD (2021, )79% of non-LGBTQ people support equal LGBTQ rightsEstoniaEstonian Human Rights Centre (2021, )46% of Estonians support marriage equalyRsiaLevada Center (2020, )18% of Rsians believe gays and lbians should be elimated om societyTaiwanEqual Love Taiwan (2020, )92. 1% of Uguayans disapprove gay people public officeUguayAmerisBarometer (2019, )74% of Uguayans approve gay people public office26% of Uguayans disapprove gay people public officeSouth Koreawilliamsstute (2019, )45% Of South Korean cizens agreed transgenr people should be allowed to serve the ary36% DisagreedEstoniaEstonian Human Rights Centre (2019, )38% of Estonians support marriage equalyJapanDentsu (2018, )8. 4% of gay or bisexual youth (age 12-25) have alt wh onle bullyg or harassmentPhilippRappler (2018, )61% Agast21% SupportPhilippCNN Philipp (2018, )25% Filipo LGBTQ workers experienced harassment om employers and superr officers33% Filipo LGBTQ workers experienced harassment om -workers60% Filipo LGBTQ workers have been subjected to offensive slurs and jok the workplaceLebanonWorld Valu Survey (2018, )48.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

2% of Lebane people thk homosexualy is never jtifiableBrazilTV Globo, Folha (2017, )74% of Brazilians thk homosexualy should be accepted by societyIsraelHiddh (2017, )79% of Israelis back gay marriage or civil unnsSouth KoreaGallup Korea (2017, )90% of Koreans said they supported equal employment opportuni for LGBT peopleSouth KoreaGallup Korea (2017, )58% of Koreans oppose same-sex marriage34% support same-sex marriage8% uncidArmeniaPew Rearch Center (2017, )91% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag4% opposeBelasPew Rearch Center (2017, )82% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag10% opposeBosnia and HerzeaPew Rearch Center (2017, )81% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag7% opposeBulgariaPew Rearch Center (2017, )61% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag30% opposeEstoniaPew Rearch Center (2017, )82% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag13% opposeGeiaPew Rearch Center (2017, )93% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag2% opposeGreecePew Rearch Center (2017, )69% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag26% opposeKazakhstanPew Rearch Center (2017, )74% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag14% opposeLatviaPew Rearch Center (2017, )84% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag10% opposeMoldovaPew Rearch Center (2017, )77% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag15% opposeRomaniaPew Rearch Center (2017, )78% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag19% opposeRsiaPew Rearch Center (2017, )80% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag13% opposeSerbiaPew Rearch Center (2017, )82% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag14% opposeUkraePew Rearch Center (2017, )78% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag11% opposeIndoniaILGA-RIWI Global attus survey (2017, )41% of Indonians believed they should be allowed to change their legal genr. AngolaILGA (2017, )61% Of Angolans agreed that gay, lbian and bisexual people should enjoy the same rights as straight peopleAngolaILGA (2017, )63% Of Angolans agreed that Transgenr people should enjoy the same rights as straight peopleMozambiqueILGA (2017, )61% Agreed that gay, lbian and bisexual people should enjoy the same rights as straight people. 9% of relig people support legislatn to protect sexual mori om discrimatnVietnamILGA (2016, )45% of Vietname support the legalizatn of same-sex marriage25% of Vietname oppose ArabiaILGA (2016, )58% of Sdi Arabians are agast the legalizatn of gay marriage18% of Sdi Arabians support Sdi ArabiaILGA (2016, )49% of Sdi Arabians believe beg LGBTI should be a crime32% of Sdi Arabians do notUned Arab EmiratThe ILGA-RIWI (2016, )45% of Emiratis strongly or somewhat agree that beg LGBTI should be a crime32% of Emiratis strongly or somewhat disagree that beg LGBTI should be a crime23% of Emiratis neher agree nor disagree that beg LGBTI should be a crimeGermanyThe Relign Monor Bertelsmann Stiftung (2015, )60% of Mlims Germany approve of gay marriageJapanDentsu (onle survey) (2015, )7.

3% of Japane adults support or somewhat supported same-sex marriageTexasUniversy of Texas/Texas Tribune (2015, )44% support same-sex marriage41% agast14% don't knowGuamUniversy of Guam (2015, )55% of Guam rints support same-sex marriage29% of Guam rints oppose same sex-marriage16% of Guam rints were ntral on the issue of same-sex marriageRsiaThe ILGA-RIWI (2015, )11% of Rsians agree that same-sex marriage should be legalMalaysiaThe ILGA-RIWI (2015, )28% of Malaysians agree that same-sex marriage should be legalRsiaAssociated Prs (2014, )51% of Rsians would not want a homosexual neighborSgaporeInstute of Policy Studi (2014, )78.

WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF GAY RIGHTS? MORE LAWSUS

87% Agast the LGBT munyQuebecFondatn Émergence (2014, )96% of Quebecers are fortable around same-sex parents85% of Quebecers believe same-sex parents are as good as oppose-sex parentsOntarFondatn Émergence (2014, )93% of Ontarians are fortable around same-sex parents77% of Ontarians believe same-sex parents are as good as oppose-sex parentsAlbertaFondatn Émergence (2014, )73% of Albertans believe same-sex parents are as good as oppose-sex parentsBrish ColumbiaFondatn Émergence (2014, )77% of Brish Columbia rints believe same-sex parents are as good as oppose-sex parentsEstoniaEstonian Human Rights Centre (2014, )29% of Estonians support marriage equalyFranceIfop (2013, )63% of French support gay marriageRsiaLevada Center (2013, )16% of Rsians believe homosexuals should be isolated om society5% believe homosexuals should be physilly stroyedBelizeUNAids (2013, )34% of Belizeans would accept someone who is gay or homosexual34% of Belizeans would tolerate someone who is gay or homosexual. KosovoYouth Iniative for Human Rights (2013, )65% of LGBT people Kosovo feel that their issu are wily disregard by the mediaKosovoYouth Iniative for Human Rights (2013, )52% of LGBT people Kosovo are aaid to speak to fai about sexual orientatnKosovoYouth Iniative for Human Rights (2013, )33% of LGBT people Kosovo are out to their iends16% are out to parents20% are out to siblgsKosovoYouth Iniative for Human Rights (2013, )15% of out LGBT people Kosovo have been ostracized by fay or iendsKosovoYouth Iniative for Human Rights (2013, )50% of people Kosovo feel fear due to beg LGBT50% are not aaidBhutanRoyal Thimphu College, Stunt Survey (2013, )60% of people believe homosexualy is immoral40% of people believe homosexualy should be acceptedRsiaAssociated Prs (2012, )38% of Rsians would not want a homosexual neighborTurkeyKonda (2012, )11. 2% of Turkish people thk homosexualy should not be a crimal actNew ZealandONE News Colmar Bnton Poll (2012, )63% of New Zealanrs support allowg same-sex upl to marry31% of New Zealanrs do not support allowg same-sex upl to marryEstoniaEstonian Human Rights Centre (2012, )34% of Estonians support marriage equalyTurkeyWorld Valu Survey (2011, )84% of Turkish people do not want to live wh LGBT neighborsLiechtensteLiechtenste (2011, )68.

WHEN REAGAN SAID GAY

76% of cizens voted "y" on the 2011 referendum approvg registered partnershipsQuebecFondatn Émergence (2011, )72% of Quebecers agree legalizatn of same-sex marriage is a good thg73% of Quebecers would be okay wh a fay member marryg someone of the same-sex78% of Quebecers would attend a same-sex marriage if vedOntarFondatn Émergence (2011, )63% of Ontarians agree legalizatn of same-sex marriage is a good thg68% of Ontarians would attend a same-sex marriage if vedAlbertaFondatn Émergence (2011, )52% of Albertans agree legalizatn of same-sex marriage is a good thg63% of Albertans would attend a same-sex marriage if vedBrish ColumbiaFondatn Émergence (2011, )64% of Brish Columbia rints agree legalizatn of same-sex marriage is a good thg71% of Brish Columbia rints would attend a same-sex marriage if vedBahraWorld Valu Survey (2011, )42% Of Bahrai people said that homosexualy is not jtifiable. Gay stunts and the children of same-sex upl, for stance, would likely be hibed om talkg about their liv, and teachers uld face the wrath of angry parents simply for discsg historil events volvg gay people, such as the adly 2016 attack on a gay nightclub bill’s proponents sist that the measure has nothg to do wh harmg the digny of gay dividuals but rather is aimed at ensurg age-appropriate sexual tn.

Ten years later, the Rsian Duma unanimoly passed legislatn “for the purpose of protectg children om rmatn advotg for a nial of tradnal fay valu” prohibg the dissematn of “propaganda” of nontradnal sexual Asenc-Rhe/Tampa Bay Tim, via Associated PrsWhile brandg gay people as child molters has been a staple of right-wg rhetoric around the world, there has long existed a stra of Amerin libertarian nservatism that ems the legal enshrement of such prejudic as an vasn of privacy and a dangero enhancement of state power. A Field poll published September 1978 found 61 percent of California voters supported banng gay teachers, a figure nsistent wh natnal proponents of Proposn 6 lookg at what seemed like an unobstcted path to victory, those opposn wonred what one of the state’s most popular Republins, s former ernor Ronald Reagan, thought about the measure.

A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY

” He ma a more substantive se his syndited lumn published a week before the electn, refutg the claim that gays had a greater propensy to be child molters and the nard that they joed the teachg profsn to rec imprsnable Electn Day, voters rejected Proposn 6, 58 percent to 42 percent, a nearly exact reversal of what the polls dited jt two months earlier. “The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market, ” Kennedy wrote, reflectg his ntued tentativens.

Sce then, the hight feral urt the untry has weighed on about a dozen other LGBTQ rights-related s, which have had powerful impacts on the gay rights movement and the liv of LGBTQ Supreme Court's First Gay Rights CaseSCOTUS's first gay rights se foced on the First Amendment—specifilly, how the rights of ee speech and prs apply to homosexual ntent. On July 25, 2014 Miami-Da County Circu Court Judge Sarah Zabel led Florida’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal and stated that the ban “serv only to hurt, to discrimate, to prive same-sex upl and their fai of equal digny, to label and treat them as send-class cizens, and to em them unworthy of participatn one of the fundamental stutns of our society. 2016 printial ndidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fra stated that civil unns are aquate as an equivalent to marriage: “Benefs are beg btowed to gay upl [ civil unns]… I believe we need to rpect those who believe that the word marriage has a spirual foundatn… Why n’t we rpect and tolerate that while at the same time sayg ernment nnot btow benefs unequally.

Court papers filed July 2014 by attorneys fendg Arizona’s gay marriage ban stated that “the State regulat marriage for the primary purpose of channelg potentially procreative sexual relatnships to endurg unns for the sake of jog children to both their mother and their father… Same-sex upl n never provi a child wh both her blogil mother and her blogil father. Queer activist Anrs Zanichkowsky stated June 2013 that the then mpaign for gay marriage “tentnally and malicly eras and exclus so many queer people and cultur, particularly trans and genr non-nformg people, poor queer people, and queer people non-tradnal fai… marriage thks non-married people are viant and not tly servg of civil rights. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a eper look this morng at one of the most profound shifts public attus ever rerd - 's the public view of people who are gay and much of this natn's history, of urse, the vast majory of people disapproved of homosexualy so strongly that anyone who me out was guaranteed to face difficulty and even risked danger.

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

HIDN BRA: AMERI'S CHANGG ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE