TIME Magaze Cover: Gay Marriage Already Won - Apr. 8, 2013 - Gay Marriage - Marriage - Homosexualy - Society

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE
• HOW GAY MARRIAGE WON
• HOW EVANGELILS ARE CHANGG THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• INSI THE EVANGELIL FIGHT OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE ALREADY WON | APR. 8, 2013
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF: GAY MARRIAGE
• THE BATTLE OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• MORE THAN 300 REPUBLINS CALL ON SUPREME COURT TO REGNIZE GAY MARRIAGE NATNALLY
• TOP EVANGELIL COLLEGE GROUP TO DISMISS EMPLOYE WHO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• INTERNATNAL GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY WEDDGS AND MARRIAGE MAGAZE- ALL ISSU
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

GAY MARRIAGE

“It would be a ep psychologil and emotnal blow to a lot of gay, lbian, and bisexual people to be told that even if their state has to regnize a marriage formed out of the state, that their state nohels disapprov of their relatnship and effectively nsirs them send class cizens, ” says Michael Boui, a law profsor at the Universy of Buffalo. When at last the doors of the whe marble temple swung open on March 26 for the first of two ssns voted to the subject, the lucky on found seats time to hear Jtice Anthony Kennedy — thor of two important earlier cisns favor of gay rights and likely a key vote this time as well — turn the tabl on the attorney fendg the tradnalist view. Charl Cooper was extollg heterosexual marriage as the bt arrangement which to raise children when Kennedy terjected: What about the roughly 40, 000 children of gay and lbian upl livg California?

HOW GAY MARRIAGE WON

Wh stunng speed, a ncept dismissed even by most gay-rights lears jt 20 years ago is now embraced by half or more of all Amerins, wh support among young voters nng as high as 4 to 1. Begng wh the Netherlands 2001, untri om Argenta to Belgium to Canada — along wh ne stat and the District of Columbia — have extend marriage rights to lbian and gay upl. But 2012, the newly nverted supporter Barack Obama sailed to an easy victory over Mt Romney, himself an avowed fan of Morn Fay — a h TV show which a voted gay uple negotiat the perils of parenthood wh adpan hilary.

The marriage license is the last fensible distctn between the rights of gay and straight upl, Cooper told the Jtic as he steeled himself to fend that le. Neher polil party gave a ht of support before last year, nor was marriage part of the so-lled homosexual agenda so worrisome to social-nservative lears. For s, proment gay-rights activists dismissed the right to marry as a quixotic, even dangero, e and gave no support to the men and women at the grassroots who lnched the uphill movement.

Homosexualy was still classified as a mental illns by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and even Universy of Mnota profsor Allan Spear, a gay-rights pneer, lled Baker and McConnell “the lunatic ge. (GRAPHIC: Pri and Prejudice: And Interactive Timele of the Fight for Gay Rights) In an opn that ced the Book of Genis, among other thori, the Mnota Supreme Court rejected his claim, and his appeal to the U. By the mid-1980s, the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn believed the ncept had advanced far enough to shield the timate behavr of gay men and lbians.

HOW EVANGELILS ARE CHANGG THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

In the 1970s and early 1980s, the reigng mol of liberated gay culture was found mecs like San Francis’s Castro Street and New York Cy’s Greenwich Village, where people sffed at the ia of g out of the closet only to enter the nf of wedlock.

Add adoptns and stepkids om earlier oppose-sex relatnships, and today there are enough children of lbian and gay upl Ameri to fill a uple of football stadiums. The Battle of Ias John Boswell was a dashg young member of Yale’s all-star history faculty 1980 when he published Christiany, Social Tolerance, and Homosexualy, which went on to w the Natnal Book Award.

But was a journalist, Andrew Sullivan, who shoved the issue out of amia and onto the liberal agenda wh a 1989 say for the New Republic amed, arrtgly, as “A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage. Fs and Starts Still, gay-rights anizatns remaed leery of the marriage issue, preferrg to attack ls formidable barriers like the ban on homosexuals the ary. When Wolfson graduated om Harvard and later went to work for Lambda Legal, the leadg gay-rights legal anizatn, he says his boss advised him to pursue his marriage strategy on his own time.

INSI THE EVANGELIL FIGHT OVER GAY MARRIAGE

To head off the possibily that same-sex marriage one state might quickly lead to married gay and lbian upl everywhere, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was troduced.

GAY MARRIAGE ALREADY WON | APR. 8, 2013

This setback, g on the heels of the Pentagon’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, moralized Elizabeth Birch, then executive director of the leadg gay advocy group, the Human Rights Campaign.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF: GAY MARRIAGE

Evans, 1996, stck down a ballot measure Colorado that would have barred ci and towns om cludg homosexuals their antidiscrimatn statut. Gays and lbians enjoy the same right to privacy their timate liv as heterosexuals, Kennedy clared, while a separate ncurrg opn, Jtice Sandra Day O’Connor add plaly, “Moral disapproval of a group nnot be a legimate ernmental tert unr the Equal Protectn Clse.

THE BATTLE OVER GAY MARRIAGE

The person next door, the next office cubicle, the person seated next to you at Thanksgivg dner or Passover ser or the pew church uld be gay.

MORE THAN 300 REPUBLINS CALL ON SUPREME COURT TO REGNIZE GAY MARRIAGE NATNALLY

My magaze story for TIME this week, “A Change of Heart, ” is a ep dive to the changg allegianc and divis evangelil church and muni over homosexualy. Support for gay marriage across all age groups of whe evangelils has creased by double digs over the past , acrdg to the Public Relign Rearch Instute, and the fastt change n be found among younger evangelils—their support for gay marriage jumped om 20% 2003 to 42% 2014.

“I refe to go to a church where my iends who are gay are exclud om Communn or a marriage venant or the bety of Christian muny, ” Meeks tells me.

At the Southern Baptist Conventn’s three-day, October bootmp to tra more than 1, 300 evangelils to double down agast gay marriage, Stanley met together wh both LGBT evangelil advot and SBC lears for a closed-door nversatn about whether their different views on gay marriage put them outsi the fah.

TOP EVANGELIL COLLEGE GROUP TO DISMISS EMPLOYE WHO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

Brandan Robertson, 22, is the natnal spokperson for Evangelils for Marriage Equaly, an effort started by lennials to help evangelils support civil gay marriag, if not marriag church. Jt Lee, 37, of the Gay Christian Network hosted his 11th annual nference last week Portland, Ore., and 1, 400 people attend, double the number who me last year.

THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Lee’s iendship wh Alan Chambers, the former head of the ex-gay anizatn Exod Internatnal, was one of the key factors that led Chambers to apologize for the hurt his anizatn ed, and the anizatn shut down.

For the past six months, the church has played a short wele vio at the start of every service that clus the le “Gay or straight here, there’s no hate here. Pastor Ryan Meeks, 36, regularly preach an unual brand of evangelilism that prais J but steers clear of pro-Ameri, pro-gun and anti-gay rhetoric. “I refe to go to a church where my iends who are gay are exclud om Communn or a marriage venant or the bety of Christian muny, ” he says.

INTERNATNAL GAY MARRIAGE

Support for gay marriage across all age groups of whe evangelils has creased by double digs over the past , acrdg to the Public Relign Rearch Instute. The Gay Christian Network’s Jt Lee, 37, hosted his 11th annual nference this month Portland, Ore., and attendance swelled to 1, 400, double the size of last year’s. (Lee’s iendship wh Alan Chambers, former print of the ntroversial Exod Internatnal mistry, which claimed to cure gays of homosexualy, helped prompt Chambers to publicly apologize for the hurt Exod had ed, and the group shut down.

GAY WEDDGS AND MARRIAGE MAGAZE- ALL ISSU

Now Lee and Chambers have been workg together wh the Colossian Fom Grand Rapids, Mich., to help evangelils warm to the gay nversatn. ) “The creasg efforts by evangelils, and pecially a new breed of young activists, to re-exame their attus and beliefs about LGBT people is a wele velopment, ” says Gene Robson, the first openly gay and partnered bishop the Epispal Church. When Dan Haselte, the lead volist of the wily popular Christian band Jars of Clay, tweeted April, “I jt don’t see a negative effect to allowg gay marriage.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

Baptist pastor Danny Cortez of New Heart Communy outsi Los Angel told his church Febary that after thkg about for 15 years, and after his son me out to him, he cid to bee gay affirmg.

Illois’s Wheaton College, Billy Graham’s alma mater, do not regnize alumni gay marriag, but this fall hired a celibate lbian to work s chapla’s office. Jerry Falwell’s Liberty Universy hired an openly gay choreographer to assist wh a mp productn of Mary Popps last sprg and then backtracked by sayg he was an pennt ntractor, not an official employee.