California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books. Voters uld remove next year - CBS Sacramento

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: AN INTERVIEW WH DAVID FRENCH
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON'T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER'S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

GAY MARRIAGE, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: AN INTERVIEW WH DAVID FRENCH

To explore the se for gay marriage, the Pew Fom has turned to Jonathan Rch, a lumnist at The Natnal Journal and gut scholar at The Brookgs Instutn.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

Rch, who is openly gay, also thored the 2004 book Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for Ameri. I’ve given a lot of talks on gay marriage a lot of ci sce wrg a book about 2004 lled Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for Ameri.

You get very sympathetic people who say, I really want to do somethg for gay people, but changg the fundamental boundari of our most ancient, important stutn jt go too far, so let’s do civil unns or somethg else. We uld also have other bat about what the Bible do and don’t mean, but I thk what boils down to is that gay people should al wh the same standards as straight people. And when straight people start upholdg biblil law civic culture, then maybe gay people should nsir , but not until then.

THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

To have those people set up a married kd of liftyle – often raisg kids, by the way; many gay upl are raisg kids – outsi of marriage sends all the wrong cultural signals.

The big cultural problem wh the fay Ameri is not that gay people want to get married – ’s that straight people are not gettg married or not stayg married. And to me, one of the important cultural effects of gay marriage will be to send a very strong signal that marriage is somethg that is available to and expected of everybody, not jt a few.

Now, there are lots of arguments on the other si about people who thk that gay marriage will hurt straight marriage.

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

I’ve never really unrstood why admtg gay upl – fairly small number – to the stutn of marriage and havg them uphold those ials would make marriage ls likely or succsful for anyone else. I often say, you know, when straight people get the right to marry two or three people or their mother or a toaster, then gay people should have the same right. But all gay people are askg for now is the one thg that we lack but that all straight people already have – they don’t need to give themselv anythg more.

I’ve often said, if I believed that gay marriage would wreck straight marriage then I’d be agast jt as if I thought that givg women the vote would wreck mocracy so that no one’s vote mattered, I’d be agast that, too. On the other hand, if gay marriage was to have a very small, sort of cremental bad effect on the divorce rate for straight people, I’d say that’s not enough to stop bee you’ve got 10, 12, 15 ln Amerins not only whout marriage, but whout even the prospect of marriage.

Are we the lull before the storm, or do you thk that wispread legalizatn of gay marriage is still a long way off, if happens at all?

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

And then after Goodridge mandated same-sex marriage Massachetts, you had some of the gay marriage advot sayg, we need to get the urt to impose this around the untry as fast as possible.

And then you had nservativ sayg, we need to sh through a nstutnal amendment at the feral level to ban gay marriage on every ch of Amerin soil forever. That om muny and that’s somethg gay upl are gog to have to build by showg, as I thk we are Massachetts, that we n be good maral cizens, that we’re not hurtg anybody else’s marriage. When this issue first me up 1970 – the first gay uple tried to get married 1970, filed a lawsu and lost – the urts were the only place you uld go.

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

There was no chance that any legislature would ever even hear you out if you were gay and wanted to get married. I see the prospect for young people to grow up assumg that they will have fai and nnectns to their muny that have been nied to gay people for thoands of years. 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. Acrdg to the Pew Rearch Center, among whe evangelils Ameri, 29 percent now favor allowg gays and lbians to marry legally — 29 percent of whe Amerin evangelils.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON'T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER'S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

The first rponse should be to go to the Bible and solidify what God says about homosexualy and the practice of . And she or he may ci, “No, I thk the lovg thg is to attend that marriage and to support them and to affirm the rightns of that so-lled ‘gay marriage. Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns.

"I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said. "But I was steadfast that like 'I'm gay and I probably shouldn't have been talg to someone that was 20 but I'm not gog to therapy, '" he said. At age 21, his mom had enouugh and mand an explatn for the gay porn she was fdg on the puter and phone.

"I was actually rehab when I was 16 years old and I thk a part of why I end up gog to rehab was the difficulty I had wh acceptg myself as a gay person, " Sharok said. For him, beg gay was a ath sentence beg that he grew up the 1990s durg the HIV/AIDS epimic and a fay member died of the disease. " Fran said that while they have grown to accept him, his fay still believ he shouldn't act on his homosexualy.