Standg on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, which opened last night at the Metta Lane Theater, has enough lghs, tears, and well-spoken sentiments to overe s ocsnal fumbl and longurs and provi a movg affirmatn of the power of love. Much like an actual weddg.
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE: PROS, CONS, AND WHERE BOTH PARTI STAND
- GAY MARRIAGE
- WHO HAS STANDG ON GAY MARRIAGE?
- STANDG ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS
- WHERE SHOULD WE, AS CHRISTIANS, STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE?
- GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
- STANDG ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS TICKETS
- RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
GAY MARRIAGE: PROS, CONS, AND WHERE BOTH PARTI STAND
Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, has been legal the US sce 2015. Learn what both parti thk about the pros and ns of this issue. * gay marriage standing *
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the civil unn (sometim unr relig thory) between two people of the same sex or genr.
Remember, Christians have allowed the s of divorce to be legal whout notable objectn — why not gay marriage, which is equally a s their ey?
GAY MARRIAGE
Neteen stat pl Washgton, D.C., now allow gay marriage. Here is where the fight for marriage equaly the U.S. stands. * gay marriage standing *
Also, gay marriage licens, higher e tax some circumstanc, and creas overhead for ernment benef programs all rult creased ernment revenue. Olr generatns are engagg age discrimatn by not affordg gay people (on average, younger people) the fundamental rights they serve. Wh a uple of years after Obergefell, a majory of both dividuals over the age of 65 and Prottant Christians supported legalized gay marriage.
In 2021, natnwi support for gay marriage fally ched over 70% — cludg 55% of Republins, the first time the majory of the GOP has supported gay marriage rights. Romans seem to have been the first to perform gay marriage ceremoni though there is no rerd of a legally bdg gay marriage Roman law.
WHO HAS STANDG ON GAY MARRIAGE?
The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry. * gay marriage standing *
In 1996, Bill Clton signed to law the Defense Of Marriage Act, which permted state law to not regnize same-sex marriag performed other stat, as well as preventg the feral ernment om regnizg gay marriage at the feral level. Massachetts was the first state the Uned Stat to perm gay marriage after the Massachetts Supreme Judicial Court led that allowg only oppose-sex marriag was discrimatory and illegal. On June 26, 2015, gay marriage was legalized all stat of the Uned Stat, natnwi, when the Supreme Court hand down the Obergefell cisn statg that same-sex marriage was protected unr two cls of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In 1989, Denmark beme the first untry the world to offer civil unns to same-sex partners, which offered some (but not all) marriage rights to gay 2001, the Netherlands passed a bill legalizg gay marriage — the first untry to do so, as well as the first 2003, Belgium legalized same-sex 2003, urts two Canadian provc cid that gay marriage was a nstutnal right Ontar, then Brish Columbia.
In 2005, Canada legalized same-sex marriage natnwi — the first untry North Ameri to do 2006, South Ai beme the first Ain untry to legalize same-sex 2010, Argenta beme the first South Amerin untry to legalize gay 2013, New Zealand beme the first Oceanic untry to legalize same-sex 2019, Taiwan beme the first Asian natn to legalize gay recently 2022, all Mexin jurisdictns had legalized gay marriage, eher by legislatn, executive actn, or a Supreme Court orr. However, transgenr and gay rights are not equal across all Mexin stat and Augt 2022, the small untry of Andorra legalized gay marriage, but won’t take effect until Febary 2023.
STANDG ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS
If the Supreme Court punts on makg a landmark cisn on Prop 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act will likely be bee the Jtic ci the platiffs lack standg. They're two groups argug to prerve the anti-gay-marriage ... * gay marriage standing *
Acrdg to recent polls, Japane people are the most approvg of gay marriage among cizens of untri that don’t currently have same-sex marriage rights.
On the oppose si of the pollg spectm, Ecuador’s urts legalized gay marriage 2019, spe s cizens disapprovg of gay marriage 51% to 23% — the lowt approval ratg any untry wh equal marriage rights.
WHERE SHOULD WE, AS CHRISTIANS, STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE?
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If the past week is any ditn, gay marriage is g to a state near you — and Monday, Oregon beme the 18th state to allow same-sex marriag. The next day, platiffs Montana filed the first challenge to the ban on gay marriage there, and the day after that, the same thg happened South Dakota — leavg North Dakota as the lone state wh a ban that hasn't been challenged.
"There really is not another issue out there that has gaed so much support so fast, " said Charl Jough, natnal prs secretary for Human Rights Campaign, a civil rights anizatn that works for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equal gas marriage equaly have been a victory for not jt gay upl, but for their sce Ben Wt and Pl Rummell of Portland, Ore., started fosterg an 8-year-old named Jay 2012, the ltle boy who had been passed om foster home to foster home had one qutn: "When am I gog to have a forever fay?
"The lg brought validy to [Jay's] forever fay, that we as a society regnize his fay is important and that we're takg on the rponsibily to raise this child that didn't get the right start at life and we're makg sure that he has every opportuny to grow and be a wonrful, healthy person, " the 35-year-old Wt said, chokg Wt and Rummell met 2006, they've seen a huge change attus toward gay rights. Gay marriage is allowed, and the public perceptnBis Oregon and Pennsylvania, the stat allow gay marriage: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Illois, Mae, Maryland, Massachetts, Mnota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexi, New York, Rho Island, Vermont, and other stat allow civil unns or domtic partnerships for same-sex upl: Colorado, Nevada and trend toward gay marriage has picked up steam.
GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
Where should we, as Christians, stand on gay marriage? What is a Christian rponse to the same-sex marriage bate? * gay marriage standing *
Meanwhile, judg 11 stat have issued lgs favor of same-sex marriage, but many of those lgs have been stayed as they proceed to appellate urts: Judg have stck down gay marriage bans Arkansas, Idaho, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Virgia.
"Sce public opn on the issue is changg so much, the polics of whether mak sense to ntue spendg lns of dollars taxpayer money on this issue is changg, " said Jam Esseks, director of the ACLU Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr & AIDS the g months, five feral appeals urts will nsir ne marriage equaly s om Utah, Oklahoma, Nevada, Texas, Virgia, Tennsee, Kentucky, Oh and last summer's Supreme Court lg on the Defense of Marriage Act and Prop 8, two historic marriage s, not a sgle state marriage ban has survived a feral urt challenge. Challeng to gay marriage bans on the state level uld bee moot if the Supreme Court cis to take up the issue, predicted to happen as early as 2015, and strik down the laws. "There uld be a Supreme Court cisn sayg the Constutn requir every state to regnize gay marriage, " said Michael Klarman, a Harvard law school profsor and thor of "From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Stggle for Same-Sex Marriage.
STANDG ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS TICKETS
The hight-profile Supreme Court w for gay and lbian rights, a cisn wrten for history, stopped short of what advot really wanted. Where do that leave the movement? * gay marriage standing *
Historilly, the state that polled the lowt public support for gay marriage was Mississippi, which voted agast gay marriage 86 percent to 14 percent 10 years ago, Klarman said. Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups.
Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years.
In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.
RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch.
Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs. That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S.