Opposn to gay unns has been swept away. Will relig rights go next?
Contents:
- A GUI FOR GAY MEN ON BOTH OPEN AND MONOGAMO MARRIAGE
- Q&A: COMMONLY ASKED QUTNS ABOUT THE ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ ISSUE
A GUI FOR GAY MEN ON BOTH OPEN AND MONOGAMO MARRIAGE
A nversatn about open and monogamo marriage, for gay men and for all. * interview questions for gay marriage *
Like heterosexuals, many lbian, gay, and bisexual people want to form stable, long-lastg relatnships and many of them do. In fact, rearchers have found that the majory of lbian, and gay, adults are mted relatnships and many upl have been together 10 or more years.
Empiril rearch also shows that lbian and gay upl have levels of relatnship satisfactn siar to or higher than those of heterosexual upl. The fai and iends of lbian and gay upl who are nied marriage rights may also experience negative physil and mental health nsequenc siar to those experienced by their loved on.
The vast majory of scientific studi that have directly pared lbian and gay parents wh heterosexual parents have nsistently shown that the same-sex upl are as f and pable parents as heterosexual upl, and that their children are jt as psychologilly healthy and well adjted.
Q&A: COMMONLY ASKED QUTNS ABOUT THE ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ ISSUE
* interview questions for gay marriage *
To explore the se for gay marriage, the Pew Fom has turned to Jonathan Rch, a lumnist at The Natnal Journal and gut scholar at The Brookgs Instutn. Rch, who is openly gay, also thored the 2004 book Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for Ameri. Gay people are askg to be part of this social ntract – to re for each other so society don’t have to.
I’ve given a lot of talks on gay marriage a lot of ci sce wrg a book about 2004 lled Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for Ameri. You get very sympathetic people who say, I really want to do somethg for gay people, but changg the fundamental boundari of our most ancient, important stutn jt go too far, so let’s do civil unns or somethg else.
And what I don’t unrstand is why gay people are the only people Ameri who have to follow biblil law. We uld also have other bat about what the Bible do and don’t mean, but I thk what boils down to is that gay people should al wh the same standards as straight people. And when straight people start upholdg biblil law civic culture, then maybe gay people should nsir , but not until then.
Although I have always enjoyed dog upl work wh gay men, I am hardly a specialist this area. So at tim when I’ve had qutns I’ve turned to my lleagu Rick Miller and Clton Power. Rick’s practice the Boston area specializ work wh gay men and Clton’s… * interview questions for gay marriage *
To have those people set up a married kd of liftyle – often raisg kids, by the way; many gay upl are raisg kids – outsi of marriage sends all the wrong cultural signals. The big cultural problem wh the fay Ameri is not that gay people want to get married – ’s that straight people are not gettg married or not stayg married. And to me, one of the important cultural effects of gay marriage will be to send a very strong signal that marriage is somethg that is available to and expected of everybody, not jt a few.
Now, there are lots of arguments on the other si about people who thk that gay marriage will hurt straight marriage. I’ve never really unrstood why admtg gay upl – fairly small number – to the stutn of marriage and havg them uphold those ials would make marriage ls likely or succsful for anyone else. Send of all, there is no logil nnectn between gay marriage and all of the other thgs.