Gay Marriage: Theologil and Moral Arguments - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Contents:

• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• GAY MARRIAGE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs.

Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment. “[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said. It Validat and Promot the Homosexual Liftyle.

In the name of the “fay, ” same-sex “marriage” serv to validate not only such unns but the whole homosexual liftyle all s bisexual and transgenr variants. Homosexual activists argue that same-sex “marriage” is a civil rights issue siar to the stggle for racial equaly the 1960s. Homosexual “marriage” do not provi such ndns.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

If homosexual “marriage” is universally accepted as the prent step sexual “eedom, ” what logil arguments n be ed to stop the next steps of ct, pedophilia, btialy, and other forms of unnatural behavr? The railroadg of same-sex “marriage” on the Amerin people mak creasgly clear what homosexual activist Pl Varnell wrote the Chigo Free Prs:"The gay movement, whether we acknowledge or not, is not a civil rights movement, not even a sexual liberatn movement, but a moral revolutn aimed at changg people's view of homosexualy.

Genis also teach how God punished Sodom and Gomorrah for the s of homosexualy: “The Lord raed down sulphuro fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah. In tellectually opposg dividuals or anizatns promotg the homosexual agenda, our only tent is the fense of tradnal marriage, the fay, and the prec remnants of Christian civilizatn. As practicg Catholics, we are filled wh passn and pray for those who stggle agast unrelentg and vlent temptatn to homosexual s.

We pray for those who fall to homosexual s out of human weakns, that God may assist them wh His grace. We pray also for the judg, legislators and ernment officials who one way or another take steps that favor homosexualy and same-sex “marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE

To the arguments favor of homosexualy and same-sex “marriage” we rpond wh arguments based on right reason, natural law and Dive Revelatn. The rultg aln ernment ially said would reta a ban on gay marriage.

As of 2020, the most recent year for which there is data, more than 42, 000 gay upl England and Wal had tied the knot. ) Pollg June found that more than three-quarters of Brons now support gay marriage, up om jt over half 2012.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR

It end Sectn 28, which prevented schools and lol thori om “promotg homosexualy” and troduced civil partnerships.

“I don’t support gay marriage spe beg a Conservative. Gay marriag beme not an abstract threat but somethg unrtaken by iends, lleagu, neighbours.

Almost half of Brons now say they know a married gay uple. Gordon Brown, Mr Cameron’s precsor, opposed gay marriage office bee was “timately bound up wh qutns of relig eedom”.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

Though Bra was not the first to legalise , 19 other untri have sce given gay marriage their blsg.

But has led to a of eccliastil disrd as liberal members of the church argue for the right to perform or partake gay marriag. A group of mps led by Ben Bradshaw, a gay Anglin, is lookg at ways to amend the legislatn to allow willg prits and parish to take part, which they argue uld also help boost dwdlg numbers the aisl.