Gay marriage sounds like an ultra-ntemporary ia. But almost twenty years ago, a Catholic scholar at Yale shocked the world by publishg a book packed wh evince that same-sex marriag were sanctned by the early Christian Church durg an era monly lled the Dark Ag.
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GAY MARRIAGE THE YEAR 100 AD
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Gay marriage sounds like an ultra-ntemporary ia. Given the Church's prent-day views on gay marriage, the tractors argued, Boswell's history seemed like wishful wasn't. Boswell had actually begun his rearch back the 1970s, and published an equally ntroversial work 1980 lled Christiany, Social Tolerance, and Homosexualy: Gay People Wtern Europe om the Begng of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century.
And this slammed the door on gay marriage.
Boswell claims that part of the problem is that we fe marriage so differently today that 's almost impossible for historians to regnize 1800-year-old gay marriage documents when they see them. Boswell adms that some of the documents he found may refer simply to non-sexual jog of two men's fortun — but many also referred to what today we would ll gay marriage.
AMERINS' IOLOGY AND AGE DRIVE GAY MARRIAGE VIEWS
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Legal scholar Richard Ante wrote a law journal article explag that Boswell's book uld even be ed as evince for the legaly of gay marriage, sce shows evince that fns of marriage have changed over time. )Were the same-sex unns the middle ag the same thg as today's gay marriag?
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Marriage self meant somethg different thoands of years ago, and social taboos agast homosexualy had not yet solidified. Sent a lk to a visual illtratg support for gay marriage by state and age:.
The data supports the notn that younger people are more supportive of gay marriage than olr people. I also thk ’s tertg that, even stat that we normally nsir que hostile to gay rights (the on at the bottom of the table), there is still a signifint age difference: 18-29 year-olds Alabama, for example, are more supportive of gay marriage than people 65 and olr Massachetts. For more data on support for gay rights, see here and here.
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