Ten Reasons to Support Gay Marriage | Psychology Today

Contents:

• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI
• PRO & CON QUOT: SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• GAYS AND LBIANS HAVE DIFFERENT REASONS TO GET MARRIED, STUDY SAYS
• 3 REASONS WHY GAY MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGAL NATNWI
• WHY NOT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?
• SHOULD GAY COUPL BE ALLOWED TO MARRY?
• WHY GAY MARRIAGE DIVIS THE WORLD
• SHOULD GAY COUPL BE ABLE TO MARRY?

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

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. 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.

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

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.

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. 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. 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 IS GOOD FOR AMERI

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. 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. 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].

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. 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.

PRO & CON QUOT: SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

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. Some of the reasons are taken om the posn statement of the Amerin Psychoanalytic Associatn on gay marriage approved 1997 and revised 2008.

GAYS AND LBIANS HAVE DIFFERENT REASONS TO GET MARRIED, STUDY SAYS

To read the entire statement and other Amerin psychoanalytic Associatn posn statements on gay rights and other social issu, click here. The first to be wed San Francis were Del Mart and Phyllis Lyon, pneerg gay-rights activists who have been a uple for more than 50 years.

What if gay marriage be a vehicle for polygamists who want to marry multiple partners, egalarians who want to radilly rewre fay law, or secularists who want to supprs relig objectns to homosexualy? Space don’t perm me to treat those and other objectns tail, beyond notg that same-sex marriage no more leads logilly to polygamy than givg women one vote leads to givg men two; that gay marriage requir only few and most chang to existg fay law; and that the Constutn provis robt protectns for relig eedom.

3 REASONS WHY GAY MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGAL NATNWI

I’ll also note, passg, that the arguments nscript homosexuals to marriagelsns orr to stop heterosexuals om makg bad cisns, a al to which we gay folks say, “Thanks, but no thanks. Still, ’s wise to guard agast untend nsequenc by tryg gay marriage one or two stat and seeg what happens, which is exactly what the untry is dog.

Ameri needs more marriag, not fewer, and the bt way to enurage marriage is to enurage marriage, which is what society do by brgg gay upl si the tent. The other is as the end of somethg radil: an experiment which gay people were told that they uld have all the sex and love they uld fd, but they uld not even thk about marriage. If I take the send view, is on nservative – fact, tradnal – grounds that gay souls and straight society are healthit when sex, love and marriage all walk step.

No ser efforts by the Republin Party, who were once stnch opponents to legalizg gay marriage, have been ma sce the urt’s cisn — even recent years, unr a Republin print.

WHY NOT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?

As the State self mak marriage all the more prec by the signifince attach to , excln om that stat has the effect of teachg that gays and lbians are unequal important rpects.

Gay upl need accs to civil marriage for the same reason that heterosexual upl need : only the law n create a fay relatnship between adults that will be regnized by the state and third parti, like employers and surance pani.

Gay upl’ tert marriage is a vote favor of the ongog relevance of marriage today’s world, a change that should strengthen, not weaken, the stutn.

SHOULD GAY COUPL BE ALLOWED TO MARRY?

…[W]hen I meet gay and lbian upl, when I meet same-sex upl, and I see how rg they are, how much love they have their hearts, how they’re takg re of their kids, when I hear om them the pa they feel that somehow they are still nsired ls than full cizens when to their legal rights, then, for me, I thk jt has tipped the sl that directn.

“I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a urt se that n help rerce the love, the mment, the fairns, and the fay that so many people, black or whe, young or old, gay or straight seek life. The fact that dividuals who happen to be gay want to share this val social stutn is evince that nservative ials enjoy wispread acceptance.

Populatn, the prence of role mols who have equal stat via marriage society has signifint meang both ternally and socially and has potential for rcg their isolatn [and] sense of stigma that gay teens face their everyday liv.

WHY GAY MARRIAGE DIVIS THE WORLD

Same-sex marriag provi stabily for upl terms of public acknowledgment of their mment and provi legimacy for the children beg raised by gay and lbian parents. The only untry wh anythg like parable legal protectns for gay upl, Denmark, has actually seen lower divorce rat among same-sex upl than among heterosexual on.

Here are a few of the advantag of same-sex marriage for the society as a whole that I have laborly spelled out: lower rat of promiscuy among gay men, more stable hom for the children of gay parents, ls trma fai wh gay offsprg, lower rat of disease transmissn, more pennt and self-reliant members of society, etc., etc. If homosexuals want to make such maral mments to one another, and to society, then why should they be prevented om dog so while other adults, equivalent all other ways, are allowed to do so?

SHOULD GAY COUPL BE ABLE TO MARRY?

ABA policy has kept pace wh our society’s evolvg unrstandg that gay and lbian people are healthy, functng ntributors to our society who face discrimatn – both as dividuals and as fai…. Mike Huckabee, 2015 Republin Printial ndidate and former Governor of Arkansas, said a June 26, 2015 op-ed for USA Today tled “Mike Huckabee: Fight Gay Marriage Judicial Tyranny”:.

What gay marriage will do and is dog is disnnect marriage as an ia om s natural roots, and creasgly stigmatize the people (and stutns) who adhere strongly to our tradnal views of marriage….

Mattilda Bernste Symore, wrer and gay rights activist, stated her May 27, 2008 article for tled “Why One Queer Person Is Not Celebratg California’s Historic Gay Marriage Decisn”:.