Why Gay Marriage is not like Divorce | Domic Legge, O.P. | First Thgs

Contents:

• THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
• CELEBRATG MY (GAY) DIVORCE
• WHY IS BEG GAY NSIRED MORE SFUL THAN BEG DIVORCED OR MG ADULTERY? [CLOSED]
• WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS NOT LIKE DIVORCE
• GAY DIVORCE AND STRAIGHT DIVORCE: THE DIFFERENCE
• WHY LBIAN UPL ARE MORE LIKELY TO DIVORCE THAN GAY ON

THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS

The statistics may provi some sight to how the legalizatn of same-sex marriage has affected the divorce rate among gay and lbian Marriag Takg PlaceSce the legalizatn of same-sex marriag 2015, there has been a drastic crease the unns.

This also means that lbian divorce rat are higher than other same-sex upl and about twice as likely to file for divorce as gay upl. Why not, the argument go, do the same wh homosexualy.

Thanks to Santom, the issue of Gay marriage has been thrown to the public sphere a bigger way than ever. Many of the nttants nsir Gay marriage as a threat to the Amerin value system. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said.

CELEBRATG MY (GAY) DIVORCE

Rumors are swirlg that tensns between Jamai and the Uned Stat are risg after the former refed to grant accredatn to the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat – whose inty has not been ma public – sce same-sex marriage is not legal the Caribbean natn. Equalx reports that addn to same-sex marriage beg illegal, homosexualy among men remas outlawed Jamai and n be punished wh up to seven years prison. Homosexualy among women is not explicly illegal, but sodomy between any two humans is punishable wh up to 10 years prison.

WHY IS BEG GAY NSIRED MORE SFUL THAN BEG DIVORCED OR MG ADULTERY? [CLOSED]

Celebratg My (Gay) DivorceMarriage equaly means divorce equaly—and I feel pri, as well as sadns, about my spl om my WhmanEdor’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Augt 25, 2013, I said “I do” to Jim, my partner of ne years, who beme my “lawfully wedd hband. I didn’t want to be “gay married”; I wanted to be “married” like any other uple, thank you very much.

WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS NOT LIKE DIVORCE

Our divorce, I thk, did as much as to legimize marriage equaly as our more: How gay marriage beme a nstutnal rightLike so many other people of my generatn, I never thought I’d be able to marry “my hband” and “to love, re for, and support him, ” as we put our vows. As she explaed later, after other gay male upl town got hched, “I like to thk that my [male] iends who have hbands n fd a ty b of validatn hearg that term applied to their chosen one.

(I also didn’t want to be known as the “gay divorcé, ” as some of my iends began llg me. We did not—uld not—jt snap our fgers and erase our turned out, many of our iends—straight and gay—didn’t thk divorce laws applied to same-sex upl. Fred Hertz, a California-based lawyer specializg same-sex-fay law, told me: “What is really surprisg to many of my clients is there is no separate set of l for gay upl—nventnal heterosexual divorce law appli to all married upl, gay or straight.

I, too, have been a very public advote for same-sex marriage, and I feared that I had “let down my tribe, ” as another gay man told me after his marriage end. This is stark ntrast wh homosexualy, which, throughout the entire Christian non is characteristic of ep pravy (cf. So what is a "homosexually-oriented" person to do?

GAY DIVORCE AND STRAIGHT DIVORCE: THE DIFFERENCE

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Issu Unique to Gay Divorce. Thomas Ree, wrg about gay marriage the Natnal Catholic Reporter, argu that the Catholic bishops of the Uned Stat should “adm feat and move on. Further, there are manifold reasons why gay marriage is a different and greater threat than divorce, and why acquicg would gravely damage the Church.

In ntrast, gay marriage is tmpeted as a posive good, and the Church will be shown no mercy by s advot until bishops, too, march the para. We should have no illns about the way cultural forc (and, soon, legal ercn) will aim to pel the Church not only to be silent on gay marriage, but to praise and to tegrate to the Church’s life—or else.

WHY LBIAN UPL ARE MORE LIKELY TO DIVORCE THAN GAY ON

Gay marriage unrm te marriage a different and much more dangero way: It hollows out s very sence, applyg the word to somethg else entirely, a relatnship that self has no potential to generate children, and so nnot self (whout help om the law or om outsirs) form a fay.

Gay marriage mak creasgly hard even to talk about what is sential to te marriage. To accept gay marriage as a genue exprsn of marriage—and to treat as such the parish office, even if we uld then keep out of the parish church—would be vastly more stctive than acceptg divorce (which has been bad).

Gay marriage is obvly different, and the threat of sndal is much greater. Ree’s argument impli that no one will be shocked if we have divorced sacristans (or gay-married parish receptnists), sce everyone unrstands that ’s jt the world we live . The effect will be even more powerful wh gay marriage.