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

Contents:

• SCOTUS GAY MARRIAGE: PROCREATN
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• PROCREATN AND GAY MARRIAGE: A FOLLOWUP
• ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: MARRIAGE IS FOR PROCREATN

SCOTUS GAY MARRIAGE: PROCREATN

[Stephen] What precisely is the way which allowg gay upl to marrywould terfere wh the visnof marriage as procreatn of childrenthat allowg sterile uplof different sex to marry would not?

I mean, there are lots of people who get marriedwho n't have take a state that do allow adoptn and say, there what's the jtifitn for sayg no gay marriage? Scholars and the general public beme creasgly terted the issue durg the late 20th century, a perd when attus toward homosexualy and laws regulatg homosexual behavur were liberalized, particularly wtern Europe and the Uned issue of same-sex marriage equently sparked emotnal and polil clash between supporters and opponents.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

Cultur that openly accepted homosexualy, of which there were many, generally had nonmaral tegori of partnership through which such bonds uld be exprsed and socially regulated. Relig and secular expectatns of marriage and sexualy Over time the historil and tradnal cultur origally rerd by the lik of Bachofen and Man slowly succumbed to the homogenizatn imposed by lonialism.

In other s, the cultural homogeney supported by the domant relign did not rult the applitn of doctre to the civic realm but may nohels have fostered a smoother seri of discsns among the cizenry: Belgium and Spa had legalized same-sex marriage, for stance, spe official opposn om their predomant relig stutn, the Roman Catholic Church. Most of the world religns have at some pots their histori opposed same-sex marriage for one or more of the followg stated reasons: homosexual acts vlate natural law or dive tentns and are therefore immoral; passag sacred texts nmn homosexual acts; and relig tradn regniz only the marriage of one man and one woman as valid. The Unarian Universalist church and the gay-oriented Universal Fellowship of Metropolan Communy Church fully accepted same-sex marriage.

G., male-female, man-woman, gay-straight) and to replace the wh tegori or ntua that they believed better reflect the actual practic of humany. In 1981, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnership, which also granted hospal visatn rights and other benefs. Bh that would outlaw same-sex marriag the whole untry, ten typilly nservative tat along wh Oregon enacted state-level bans on gay marriag.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

In 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman to be unnstutnal, 2013, Uned Stat v. By 2015 (the year Obergefell was cid) thirty-six stat already issued marriage licens to same-sex upl and more than 20 unti around the world had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands 2000.

Judge Heyburn held that “homosexual persons nstute a quasi-spect class, ” and clared that Kentucky’s law banng same-sex marriag vlat the Equal Protectn Clse of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Uned Stat Constutn. They talk about the risks to parentg, when there is no evince that suggts that gay and lbian upl are worse parents, pecially when pared to dysfunctnal upl tradnal marriag or sgle parents of limed fancial means. The ernment n offer s subsidi to some groups but not to others, and so dog, force small isolated groups to subsidize powerful gay rights anizatns.

We th face a ser risk the aftermath of Obergefell: liberty gay rights will turn out to be a one-way street. As I wre, the gay rights movement is gearg up to expand the spe of the antidiscrimatn laws hog and labor markets. Homosexual upl g vro fertilizatn (IVF) or surrogate mothers liberately create a class of children who will live apart om their mother or father.

PROCREATN AND GAY MARRIAGE: A FOLLOWUP

Although homosexual men are ls likely to have children than lbians, homosexual men are and will be raisg children. A number of leadg profsnal associatns have asserted that there are "no differenc" between children raised by homosexuals and those raised by heterosexuals.

ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: MARRIAGE IS FOR PROCREATN

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:. Evince suggts children raised by homosexuals are more likely to experience genr and sexual disorrs. Although the evince on child out is sketchy, do suggt that children raised by lbians or homosexual men are more likely to experience genr and sexual disorrs.

Neverthels, th studi give some crence to nservative ncerns about the effects of homosexual parentg. 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.