Proponents ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, opponents ague that marriage is primarily for procreatn.
Contents:
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
- GAY RIGHTS
- “7 BIBLE QUOT SUPPORTG GAY RELATNSHIPS”
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
- RPONDG TO PRO-GAY THEOLOGY, PART I: SOCIAL JTICE ARGUMENTS
- 6 PRO-GAY MARRIAGE ARGUMENTS FOR FIGHTG WH CRAZY PEOPLE
- WHY HAVE SO MANY CHRISTIANS AND CHURCH BEE PRO-GAY?
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
* pro gay arguments *
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. The Amerin Psychologil Associatn, Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and others nclud that legal gay marriage giv upl “accs to the social support that already facilat and strengthens heterosexual marriag, wh all of the psychologil and physil health benefs associated wh that support.
GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * pro gay arguments *
2016 printial ndidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fra stated that civil unns are aquate as an equivalent to marriage: “Benefs are beg btowed to gay upl [ civil unns]… I believe we need to rpect those who believe that the word marriage has a spirual foundatn… Why n’t we rpect and tolerate that while at the same time sayg ernment nnot btow benefs unequally.
Court papers filed July 2014 by attorneys fendg Arizona’s gay marriage ban stated that “the State regulat marriage for the primary purpose of channelg potentially procreative sexual relatnships to endurg unns for the sake of jog children to both their mother and their father… Same-sex upl n never provi a child wh both her blogil mother and her blogil father.
Lee Badgett, PhD, Director of the Center for Public Policy and Admistratn at the Universy of Massachetts at Amherst, stated that for many gay activists “marriage means adoptg heterosexual forms of fay and givg up distctively gay fay forms and perhaps even gay and lbian culture.
“7 BIBLE QUOT SUPPORTG GAY RELATNSHIPS”
Advot worry that bat hijacked by the extrem of both parti over trans youth and athlet are beg ed for a broar asslt on settled law protectg gay, lbian and bisexual people. * pro gay arguments *
Queer activist Anrs Zanichkowsky stated June 2013 that the then mpaign for gay marriage “tentnally and malicly eras and exclus so many queer people and cultur, particularly trans and genr non-nformg people, poor queer people, and queer people non-tradnal fai… marriage thks non-married people are viant and not tly servg of civil rights.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully. * pro gay arguments *
Matt Barber, Associate Dean for Onle Programs at Liberty Universy School of Law, stated, “Every dividual engaged the homosexual liftyle, who has adopted a homosexual inty, they know, tuively, that what they’re dog is immoral, unnatural, and self-stctive, yet they thirst for that affirmatn.
RPONDG TO PRO-GAY THEOLOGY, PART I: SOCIAL JTICE ARGUMENTS
A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga? * pro gay arguments *
But for such rape to have volved "all the men of the cy, both young and old" (Gen 19:4), homosexual activy mt have been monly practiced--one reason why Ju rerds that their "fornitn, and gog after strange flh are set forth [ Scripture] for an example [and warng unto ]" (Ju 7). Rponse to Argument #18: First, if the passag nmn homosexualy only bee of s associatn wh idolatry, then would logilly follow that other practic mentned the passag--ct, adultery, polygamy, btialy, and child sacrifice--are also nmned as sful only bee of their associatn wh idolatry. “In Romans 1:26-27 Pl do not nmn dividuals who are homosexuals by nature; rather, he refers to idolatro heterosexuals who have 'changed their nature' by mtg homosexual acts” Acrdg to this argument, the real s nmned by Pl is two-fold: (I) the changg of what is natural to a person to what is unnatural, and (ii) homosexualy mted by people who worship imag, not God.
6 PRO-GAY MARRIAGE ARGUMENTS FOR FIGHTG WH CRAZY PEOPLE
Joe Dallas do an excellent job of revealg the tth of the Gospel & Pro-gay theology * pro gay arguments *
E., heterosexuals who are practicg homosexual acts), but don't apply to dividuals to whom those same actns allegedly do e naturally (so lled te homosexuals), then nsistency and tellectual tegry mand that the sful practic mentned vers 29 and 30--fornitn, backbg, ce, etc.
“Pl’s arsenokoai and malakoi statements 1 Cor 6:9-10 and 1 Tim 1:9-10, nouncg the ‘effemate and them that file themselv wh mankd’ are actually a nmnatn of an ‘offensive kd of homosexualy, ’ not the ‘offense of homosexualy’” In both passag, Pl lists those who engage homosexual behavr among such lawls people as fornitors, idolaters, adulterers, thiev, dnkards, kidnapers, etc. Acrdg to pro-gay advot, the Greek terms arsenokoai (translated 1 Cor 6 and 1 Tim 1 as "them that file themselv wh mankd") and malakoi (translated "effemate" or "soft" 1 Cor 6), which the apostle to nounce homosexual activy, refer to homosexual abe, not s right e.
WHY HAVE SO MANY CHRISTIANS AND CHURCH BEE PRO-GAY?
“Homosexualy nnot be cured; therefore the church mt wele gays and lbians to full membership and embrace their homosexual liftyle” Based on the mistaken notn that homosexualy is not a s, but a tra of one’s inty, and based on the apparent failure of prayer, unselg, human therapy, and other methods of behavr modifitn (skills of self-disciple or self-ntrol), advot of pro-gay theology argue that cure or liverance may not always be possible for those wh homosexual orientatns. In the light of our discsn the precedg pag, we nnot but borrow the followg words to rpond to attempts at domtitg homosexualy and lbianism the Seventh-day Adventist Church: The church nnot ndone homosexual activy whout betrayg s biblil, historil, and spirual herage.
[2] The pro-gay arguments are bt articulated by former Yale Universy profsor of history John Boswell, Christiany, Social Tolerance and Homosexualy (Chigo: Universy of Chigo Prs, 1980), and Anglin theologian Derrick Sherw Bailey, Homosexualy and the Wtern Christian Tradn (London: Longmans, Green, 1955). [5] “While J is not reported to have spoken on homosexualy or homosexual behavr, his one rerd statement [ Matt 19:38 and Mark 10:29] about human sexualy reveals that he unrstood mal and femal to be created by God for mutual relatns that une and fulfill both male and female a (permanent) plementary unn.