It's hard to overstate jt how upset relig nservativ are about gay marriage. Gary Ber's e-mail newsletter about the Massachetts Supreme...
Contents:
- WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
- THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
- GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
Acrdg to a recent study by Pew Rearch Center, the major relig groups Ameri that prohib gay marriag clu Amerin Baptist Church, Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats (Mormon), Islam, and Roman Catholicism. The Supreme Court lg earlier this year legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi has ntued to raise qutns about how the cisn will affect relig groups – pecially those that rema opposed to allowg gay and lbian upl to wed. ) (not to be nfed wh the Prbyterian Church Ameri, which oppos same-sex marriage) and the Epispal Church have wrtled wh the issue for years, often as part of a larger bate on the role of gays and lbians the church.
Schaefer’s se has spl the church, wh some clergy floutg the l and marryg same-sex upl and other, more nservative members threateng to leave if the church do not hold to s current l prohibg gay marriage. Overall, a solid majory of whe male Prottants (62%) now favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, wh jt 33% opposed, acrdg to a 2015 Pew Rearch Center survey.
A new poll om the Pew Fom on Relign & Public Life found, not surprisgly, that opposn to gay marriage and homosexualy is hight among the most relig. Poignantly, homosexualy would seem to be the one topic that un the lears of the world’s fahs—an issue over which Frankl Graham and Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamed uld break bread.
THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
The most fashnable argument agast is that unrm the stutn of marriage (and therefore fay and therefore society), but I n’t help but thk this is a poll-tted ia that don’t really get at the te feelgs of the advot; the Pew poll, few people opposg the notn of gay marriage offered that up as the ma reason. Though there are differenc the views of different fahs, nservative Prottants, the Catholic Church, Mormons, tradnal Jews, and Mlims share two fundamental antigay arguments.
GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
Christian Bible scholar Ben Whergton explas the views of the apostle Pl this way: “For Pl, not unlike other early Jewish wrers, homosexual behavr is perhaps the cleart example of how floutg sexual distctns is ultimately a rejectn of the Creator, who ma such distctns. But Whergton, a nservative scholar, go on to pot out that all sorts of ss volve the implic rejectn of God or His mandments and that homosexualy is on par wh vetons, malice, envy, murr, slanr, solence, rebelln agast parents, thlsns, ce, pri, and the like—not one sted to stroy society.
Tim, July 30, 2008, available at #; Michael Levenson, Governor signs law allowg out-of-state gays to wed, Boston Globe, July 31, 2008, available at breakg_news/2008/07/. & Rob Fretwell Wilson eds., 2008) (this book was based on a nference of legal scholars and practners late 2005); Alan Sears & Craig Osten, The Homosexual Agenda: Exposg the Prcipal Threat to Relig Freedom Today (2003); Roger Severo, Or for Poorer? Toklas Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Democratic Club, Alice Reports (July 2008), / See also John Wilrmuth, Obama oppos proposed ban on gay marriage, S.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Tim, June 10, 2006 (quotg Marc Stern scribg llisn between same-sex marriage and relig liberty as a "tra wreck"), available at /; Gallagher, supra note 12 (reportg that proment gay rights scholar, Chai Feldblum, perceiv genue nflicts between ee exercise of relign and sexual liberty), available at /000/012/. See John Kdy, Dixon to file First Amendment, discrimatn sus, Toledo Free Prs, May 15, 2008, available at Dixon's op-ed was rpondg to an edorial by the paper's Edor Chief about gay rights Oh.
The Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network ("GLSEN"), for example, holds nferenc for admistrators and teachers that clu workshops like "The Stggl and Triumphs of Includg Homosexualy a Middle School Curriculum, " "From Lbos to Stonewall: Inrporatg Sexualy to a World History Curriculum, " and "Early Childhood Edutors: How to Deci Whether to Come Out at Work or Not. The analysis of the bill prepared by the Assembly Commtee on the Judiciary clus a lany of grievanc agast the Boy Suts and explas that ernments have started to ny the Boy Suts public benefs bee of their unwaverg stance on homosexualy. [72] See also Volokh, supra note 70, at 1182 (discsg ncern that "a gay rights victory on ernment regnn of same-sex marriage [uld] yield broar gay rights victori...
Statistics suggt, however, that gays and lbians are not creasg number, if we accept the bt rearch data of Edward Lmann, who puts the number at about 5% of the populatn1. What has grown is a much greater acceptance of gays and lbians our culture, as well as the social and enomic eedom for gays and lbians to emerge om the closet that has nfed them for so many generatns.