Are there scientific reasons to oppose gay marriage? | Psychology | The Guardian

Contents:

• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• ARE THERE SCIENTIFIC REASONS TO OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE?
• THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
• GAY MARRIAGE: A CHRISTIAN RPONSE
• THE LOGIL FALLACY GAY-MARRIAGE OPPONENTS DEPEND UPON
• OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
• GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM
• EDUTN MISTER SLAMMED FOR SUGGTG GAY MARRIAGE IS UNNATURAL

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

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.

A 2003 set of guil signed by Pope John Pl II stated: “There are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God’s plan for marriage and fay… Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go agast the natural moral law. Former Arkansas ernor and Republin printial ndidate Mike Huckabee stated that gay marriage is “nsistent wh nature and nature’s law. US public opn had shifted signifintly over the years, om 27% approval of gay marriage 1996 to 55% 2015, the year beme legal throughout the Uned Stat, to 61% 2019.

ARE THERE SCIENTIFIC REASONS TO OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE?

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.

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. A study found that same-sex married upl were “signifintly ls distrsed than lbian, gay, and bisexual persons not a legally regnized relatnship. A 2010 analysis found that after their stat had banned gay marriage, gay, lbian and bisexual people suffered a 37% crease mood disorrs, a 42% crease alhol-e disorrs, and a 248% crease generalized anxiety disorrs.

The Congrsnal Budget Office timated 2004 that ferally-regnized gay marriage would cut the budget fic by around $450 ln a year. In July 2012 New York Cy Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that gay marriage had ntributed $259 ln to the cy’s enomy jt a year sce the practice beme legal there July 2011.

THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!

In 2012, the Williams Instute at the Universy of California at Los Angel (UCLA) found that the first five years after Massachetts legalized gay marriage 2004, same-sex weddg expendur (such as venue rental, weddg k, etc. Relig stutns n cle to marry gay and lbian upl if they wish, but they should not dictate marriage laws for society at large.

Gay marriage is a civil right protected by the US Constutn’s mments to liberty and equaly, and is an ternatnally regnized human right for all people.

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. Contrary to the pro gay marriage argument that some different-sex upl nnot have children or don’t want them, even those s there is still the potential to produce children.

GAY MARRIAGE: A CHRISTIAN RPONSE

By rcg the differenc opportuni and experienc between gay and heterosexual people, this unique culture may cease to exist. 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.

Pla Ettelbrick, JD, Profsor of Law and Women’s Studi, wrote 1989, “Marriage ns ntrary to two of the primary goals of the lbian and gay movement: the affirmatn of gay inty and culture and the validatn of many forms of relatnships.

THE LOGIL FALLACY GAY-MARRIAGE OPPONENTS DEPEND UPON

LGBT activist llective Agast Equaly stated, “Gay marriage ap hetero privilege… [and] creas enomic equaly by perpetuatg a system which ems married begs more worthy of the basics like health re and enomic rights. The lears of the Gay Liberatn Front New York said July 1969, “We expose the stutn of marriage as one of the most sid and basic staers of the system.

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. The Bible, Levic 18:22, stat: “Thou shalt not lie wh mankd, as wh womankd: is abomatn, ” th nmng homosexual relatnships.

Two orthodox Jewish groups, the Orthodox Agudath Israel of Ameri and the Orthodox Unn, also oppose gay marriage, as do mastream Islam. In Islamic tradn, several hadhs (passag attributed to the Prophet Muhammad) nmn gay and lbian relatnships, cludg the saygs “When a man mounts another man, the throne of God shak, ” and “Sihaq [lbian sex] of women is za [illegimate sexual terurse]. On May 17, 2004, the first legal gay marriage the Uned Stat was performed Cambridge, MA between Tanya McCloskey, a massage therapist, and Marcia Kadish, an employment manager at an engeerg firm.

OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA

Some possibili are nsired is 'unnatural'Prumably this argument is referrg to the act of homosexual sex, which isn't found nature (except when regularly is).

Whatever your views on homosexual sex (and if you're viewg a lot while plag about , your objectns are already somewhat qutnable) applyg the same ratnale to same-sex marriage is farcil. Rarely if ever will a male prayg mantis walk his dghter down an aisle of some scriptn, although there uld be several reasons for some of the above lks show, our unrstandg of "natural" relatnships often seem to be based largely on misrmatn and myth, so tryg to apply this notn to an entirely human nstct mak ltle or no sense, will lead to more qutnable unns beg more monIt has been argued that gay marriage will lead to a slippery slope of ever more qutnable unns beg legally regnised, such as between man and animal, woman and toaster, child and quasar, horse and the tangible ncept of nostalgia, stuff like that. At prent, there is no feasible mechanism known to science where the legalisg of gay marriage would imbue animals wh nscns and a sense of dividual is also the matter of more problematic human relatnships like polygamy and ct.

GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM

Although such a thg hasn't been noticed before now, legalisg gay marriage would e a rapid crease the number of marriag over a very short space of time. There's no reason to penalise others for your poor marriage uld hr scientific progrsNot an argument put forward by most anti-gay marriage prottors, but is possible legalisg gay marriage uld hr scientific progrs.

In this stance, uld be homosexual scientists, unable to get legally married so ntug wh their reers, which are pickg up the slack and matag scientific scenar assum that same-sex marriage not beg legally regnised prents an imperable barrier to gay people hopg to enter to long term relatnships and start fai.

However, anyone who is iends wh, has met, or even been wh the same post as an average homosexual should know this is clearly not the se.

EDUTN MISTER SLAMMED FOR SUGGTG GAY MARRIAGE IS UNNATURAL

You may feel that homosexual relatnships are not "real" relatnships, and that's your prerogative, but this is purely a subjective viewpot and nnot be verified or supported by the available sex marriage is TOO naturalIt is possible that everyone is approachg this argument om the wrong directn. When Print Barack Obama threw his admistratn’s support behd a challenge to Proposn 8, the gay-marriage ban enacted by California voters 2008, his Jtice Department troduced what amounted to a bizarre promise.