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Contents:
- 31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)
- THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW
- BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE DON'T MAKE YOU A HOMOPHOBE
- OPN WHY I OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE
- THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
- TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
- I’M GAY AND I’M AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
- GAY MARRIAGE
31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)
Bt arguments agast same-sex "marriage." Learn them and w every bate. See why gay marriage is wrong. * why i am against gay marriage *
Some have jt not been exposed to the right arguments, and so I will monstrate here that each anti-gay marriage argument ultimately serv to opprs or imply the lser stat of the mory of which I am a part.
THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW
Why I opppose gay marriage. * why i am against gay marriage *
In rallyg agast the troductn of equal marriage, relig mpaigners have equently strsed that their objectns are not driven by homophobia, and have ployed numero arguments to monstrate this. He is suatg, of urse, that homosexual relatnships are not plementary by nature bee they nnot produce offsprg, and therefore they are unnatural and unservg of the word “marriage”.
BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE DON'T MAKE YOU A HOMOPHOBE
* why i am against gay marriage *
The studi ced by actively homophobic anisatns like the Coaln for Marriage were fund by anti-gay anisatns, or have basic methodology flaws – for example, they would pare married straight upl wh un-wed gay upl, or they would take a person who may have had a sgle cur experience wh the same sex and fe them as exclively homosexual. Arguments based on “tradnal fay” will always be sultg, not jt to the healthy, well-adjted children of gay upl, but to the children raised by sgle parents, step-parents, grandparents, godparents, foster parents, and siblgs. A step the right directn, perhaps, but they are a separate form of regnn that reaffirmed society’s wish to keep homosexuals at arm’s length should we somehow “dimish” te marriage.
Type B: The Arguments That Don’t Even Bother to Hi Their Homophobia While we mt look closely to spot the homophobia herent some arguments agast gay marriage, wh others the prejudice is barely disguised at all.
OPN WHY I OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE
Proponents ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, opponents ague that marriage is primarily for procreatn. * why i am against gay marriage *
” Ignorg the fact not everyone is gay, and also ignorg the fact gay people n and do have children through donors and surrogat, I actually que enjoyed the apolyptic imag this argument njured. Concln In an attempt to portray his mpaign to “prerve tradnal marriage” as reasoned and unprejudiced, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has argued that supporters of gay marriage shouldn’t rort to name-llg and accatns of bigotry.
THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
In most public discsns, the issue of same-sex marriage is posed as a simple qutn – for or agast? – where to be for or agast is to be, more or ls, for or agast gay people. Although don’t… * why i am against gay marriage *
Given centuri of relig persecutn of gay people is entirely jtified to ll Lord Carey, the Coaln for Marriage, Christian Concern, and all other proactive opponents of gay marriage “bigots” and their arguments homophobic. Soclogist Steven Nock of the Universy of Virgia, who is agnostic on the issue of same-sex civil marriage, offered this review of the lerature on gay parentg as an expert wns for a Canadian urt nsirg legalizatn of same-sex civil marriage:.
In the first edn of his book fense of same-sex marriage, Virtually Normal, homosexual mentator Andrew Sullivan wrote: "There is more likely to be greater unrstandg of the need for extramaral outlets between two men than between a man and a woman.
It is plsible to spect that legal regnn of homosexual civil marriage would have siar nsequenc for the stutn of marriage; that is, would further stabilize the norm that adults should sacrifice to get and stay married for the sake of their children. As an atheist gay who regards marriage as part of the baggage of heterosexual society which I have e to rpect but n never fully share, I am tempted to say a plague on both your ho, " he wrote the Daily Telegraph source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The historian David Starkey: "I'm torn on gay marriage"Actor Rupert Everett perhaps gave the most lourful argument agast, a 2012 terview the Guardian.
TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
This article claims that three mon arguments agast gay marriage - the fnal, procreatn, and slippery-slope arguments - are que bad, the worst of the lot. The fnal argument asserts that marriage jt is the unn of one man and one woman, and that the fn alone is a sufficient fense agast claims for gay marriage. The procreatn argument claims that marriage's central public purpose is to enurage procreatn, and so the excln of same-sex upl is jtified. The slippery-slope argument claims that the acceptance of same-sex marriage logilly entails the acceptance of other public policy chang - notably the acceptance of polygamy - that would themselv be bad, pennt of whether gay marriage is bad. While each argument has some appeal, and each has adherents both si and outsi the legal amy, each is badly flawed as a matter of logic, experience, polics, or some batn of the three. The article suggts that the tert of focg on the most important ncerns about gay marriage, mentators should move on to other arguments agast that seem stronger and th better tt the affirmative se for gay marriage. * why i am against gay marriage *
"Society gave legal and stutnal exprsn to what many hold to be te - that gay and lbian people should have the same rights to formalise their mment to each other and enjoy the social and legal benefs that oppose-sex upl have, " said the Lord Bishop of Exeter to the Hoe of Lords 2013. The Huffgton Post’s Pl Rshenbh quickly wrote up a rponse, sayg that “The hard realy that Cardal Dolan and all Christians need to face up to is that the Catholic Church along wh every other church whether Orthodox, Prottant or Catholic has been horrifilly, persistently and vehemently anti-gay for almost all of s history.
If Rshenbh is right, then that means my parents are anti-gay, many of my relig iends (of all fahs) are anti-gay, the Pope is anti-gay, and—y, we’ll go here—first-century, Jewish theologian J is anti-gay.
That’s spe the fact that while some relig people don’t support gay marriage a sacramental sense, many of them are favor of same-sex civil unns and full rights for the parti volved. ” I have no rervatns about my sexualy, so as far as the accatn of homophobia go: that gay ship has already sailed to Disneyland, wh a speedo-clad Tom Daley rved to the ’s “anti-gay” to qutn the arguments of marriage-equaly advot, and if the word “homophobic” is exhsted on me or on pole dissenters, then what should we ll someone who beats up gay people, or prefers not to hire them?
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
Simply havg rervatns about gay marriage might be anti-gay marriage, but if the rervatns are articulated a rpectful way, I see no reason to dismiss the person holdg those rervatns as anti-gay people. When we hastily label our opposn wh terms like “anti-gay, ” we make an unwarranted leap om the first scriptn to the me, regnizg the distctn between opposg gay marriage and opposg gay people is a natural outgrowth of an ternal distctn: When to my inty, I take re not to rce myself to my sexual orientatn. If ’s te that my gayns is not the most fundamental aspect of my inty as Brandon, then seems to me that someone uld iologilly disapprove of my sexual exprsn while simultaneoly lovg and affirmg my larger inty.
Maybe his distctn between Brandon and Gay Brandon is misguid, but isn’t necsarily malic, and that’s the Schenck, current chairman of the Evangelil Church Alliance, told me that while he believ that marriage is between one man and one woman, this belief is a “source of ternal nflict” and “nsternatn” for him. If he were disgted by gay people, or thought they should be imprisoned, or wanted to see the gayns beat out of them, then that might implite his human inty, part bee would suggt a troublg lack of passn.
To monize as anti-gay the lns of Amerins currently dog the difficult work of thkg through their nvictns is, my opn, very ’s te that as an LGBT person, I am Otherized agast the sexual norm.
I’M GAY AND I’M AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
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.
GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
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.
Same-sex relatnships are different om heterosexual relatnships, and gay men and lbians need to accept that and sign their own wrer is a -founr of the Natnal Capal Tea Party Patrts.
Last month, Gallup found that a rerd high of 71% of Amerins support , cludg a majory of are the nam of every Republin reprentative who opposed feral protectns for gay marriage:Robert Arholt (Ala.
GAY MARRIAGE
In a 2014 article entled “The Scientific Case agast Homosexual ‘Marriage, ’” HLI’s Brian Clow illtrat the cheapeng of marriage wh an analogy that helps see the realy of what same-sex marriage do to the ncept of a marriage between a man and a woman:.
We see this same kd of attu om Pla Ettelbrick, former director of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force and also the executive director of the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn. The only studi that have been performed to rigoro scientific standards by impartial rearchers have shown that homosexual parentg is nfg and harmful to the psychology of children. Homosexualy is a normal part of adult sexualy; gay men and lbians posss the same potential and sire for staed lovg and lastg relatnships as heterosexuals, cludg lovg and parentg children.
Proponents of legal gay marriage ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, and that same-sex upl should have accs to all the benefs enjoyed by different-sex upl. On July 25, 2014 Miami-Da County Circu Court Judge Sarah Zabel led Florida’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal and stated that the ban “serv only to hurt, to discrimate, to prive same-sex upl and their fai of equal digny, to label and treat them as send-class cizens, and to em them unworthy of participatn one of the fundamental stutns of our society.