Gay Marriage - DOMA, 14th Amendment & Supreme Court | HISTORY

Contents:

• ANDREW SULLIVAN: WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI
• GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI
• GAY MARRIAGE: WHY IT IS GOOD FOR GAYS, GOOD FOR STRAIGHTS, AND GOOD FOR AMERI
• WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR STRAIGHT AMERI?
• WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR STRAIGHT AMERI (LK)
• TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• GAY MARRIAGE
• 7 WAYS THE U.S.A. BENEFS FROM THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE
• (LK) WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR STRAIGHT AMERI, BY ANDREW SULLIVAN

ANDREW SULLIVAN: WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI

And as I experienced timacy and love for the first time as an adult, all that brtlens of the gay adolcent, all that whe-knuckled embarrassment, all those s and exc and dark, ep prsns lifted. And nservativ were termed to keep them isolatn, stigmatized and kept on an embarrassg, unmentnable marg, where gays uld be ed to buttrs the primacy of heterosexualy. But we were not talkg of relig marriage and were more than eager to sist, as New York state, on the vlable relig eedom of church, mosqu, and synagogu to reta their bans on gay marriage.

And when the data showed that the era of gay marriage, straight marriage had actually strengthened somewhat, divorce rat had cled, and marriag lasted longer, even those who worried about untend nsequenc nced that the argument was sentially over. Bh's solicor general, Ted Olson, would lead the legal fight agast Proposn 8 California; that a Reagan-appoted judge, Anthony Kennedy, would be the foremost Supreme Court jtice affirmg gay and lbian equaly; and that Albany, the end, the wng vot me om Republins who voted their urse this is new and not so new.

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. 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.

GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI

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.

GAY MARRIAGE: WHY IT IS GOOD FOR GAYS, GOOD FOR STRAIGHTS, AND GOOD FOR AMERI

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.

Whout reurse to God or His sign for human sexualy, though they are behd the scientific and psychologil evince, I n state that homosexuals, as fed by Rch, do not exist.

WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR STRAIGHT AMERI?

Some people believe that homosexualy is wrong, perd; some believe that real homosexuals (persons for whom oppose-sex love and marriage simply aren’t optns) don’t actually exist….

When gays are allowed to marry, they will move beyond the “fear that gay cultural uniquens will be absorbed and then erased by the ‘heterosexual liftyle'” (p.

WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR STRAIGHT AMERI (LK)

Rch stat, “It has always stck me as peculiar that so many nservativ have nounced the ‘homosexual liftyle’—meang to a large extent, the gay sexual unrworld—while fightg tooth and nail agast lettg gays participate the stutn which would do the most to change that liftyle” (p.

Obvly, we don’t know if marriage would change the gay liftyle, would pend a great al on how many actually wanted to marry, moreover wanted to nfe their sexual activy to marriage. When Rch says that gay marriage is worth the risk of untend nsequenc for buckg lennia of tradn, he thks he’s talkg about appl (heterosexual marriage) and appl (gay marriage), but he isn’t even talkg about appl and orang (both of which are roundish us); he’s talkg about appl and rocks.

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

Sullivan mentned that his childhood he didn’t see himself gettg married jt bee gay uple was not tablish, but he knew that when he did, was not gog to have a marriage like his parents.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

Furthermore makg sure that people unrstand that homosexual people need love to and not hate, and g out should feel like fally you n be who you are.

It fish that we’ve been knowg that gay muny exist jt bee the fact that showed the harst tim o example the plague AIDS but even though was a stuggle to make possible the hetersosexuals and homosexuals ma possible that beg gay is not beg an outsour but s about beg a human. As recently as 2004, nearly twice as many Amerins opposed than favored allowg gay and lbian people to marry legally; by 2019, public opn had reversed, wh 61% favor and 31% opposed.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

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. 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.

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.

7 WAYS THE U.S.A. BENEFS FROM THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE

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 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.

(LK) WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR STRAIGHT AMERI, BY ANDREW SULLIVAN

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.