Should Gay Marriage Be Legal? 6 Pros and Cons

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE, RELIGN AND THE COURT
• THE PRICE OF GAY MARRIAGE
• THE HOE WILL VOTE ON LEGISLATN PROTECTG MARRIAGE EQUALY AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI
• GAY MARRIAGE’S MOMENT
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• A RENCILIATN ON GAY MARRIAGE
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

GAY MARRIAGE, RELIGN AND THE COURT

To the ntrary, the equal protectn jurispnce has attempted to upend tradns that have led to the subordatn of particular groups — whether abolishg a long tradn of barrg racial mori om servg on juri, a long tradn of excludg women om state-fund universi or a long tradn of subordatg gay, lbian and bisexual people. It was the first time gay-marriage activists adopted a strategy of srg their most well-heeled opponents away om the before the phrase “ncel culture” entered the lexin or Republin senators plaed about the power of “woke pal, ” Mr. ” Brian Brown — the executive director for California of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, the leadg sgle-issue anti-gay-marriage group, led by people wh close ti to lears the Catholic Church and the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats — boasted after the Grand Hyatt prott that Mr.

THE PRICE OF GAY MARRIAGE

5 ln to a mpaign to pass Referendum 74, which would legalize same-sex marriage the state, proponents outspent opponents more than five to pro-gay-marriage activists ually creded chang their persuasive msagg to their improved mpaigns, their most obv new advantage me the form of rourc. There was only one week 2012 when anti-gay-marriage ads outnumbered pro-gay-marriage ads the stat wh November ballot measur, and the largt major media markets, pro-gay-marriage mpaigners averaged a two-to-one advertisg then, lls for boytts — as part of a broar iologil e rather than a narrow prott agast specific bs practic — have grown so equent that Amerin polics often feels like a proxy war between rporatns.

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6):Whout a ht of irony, Jtice Clarence Thomas, addrsg gay marriage an opn joed by Jtice Samuel Alo, wrote that “those wh scerely held relig beliefs ncerng marriage will fd creasgly difficult to participate society. People this untry every area of life om marriage equaly to adoptn to health re ncern that those who oppose gay marriage will be perceived as bigots whout acknowledgment of the history of adly bias agast those the L.

THE HOE WILL VOTE ON LEGISLATN PROTECTG MARRIAGE EQUALY AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE CISN

But uld also be the swan song for the movement for gay eedom that began after World War is unfortunate that the movement’s two great victori of the last — the right to serve openly the ary and the right to be married — have e as progrs has stalled or reversed so many other areas of civil rights: equal pay and reproductive choice for women; hog and school segregatn; police vlence agast mori; and the prospects of a cent wage and a modicum of job and retirement secury for is no accint that the one civil rights law that would likely apply to the greatt numbers of gays — a ban on discrimatn employment and hog on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty — ntu to elu .

GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI

Will even a actn of the energy and money that have been poured to the marriage fight be available to transgenr people, homels teenagers, victims of job discrimatn, lbian and gay refuge and asylum seekers, isolated gay elrly or other vulnerable members of our muny?

Around the same time New York State legalized same-sex marriage, 2011, was slashg funds for servic to homels youth, who are disproportnately gay or movement for gay rights that began after World War II was waged om society’s margs; s most outspoken proponents sought to overturn social nventn, not jo . Though the Supreme Court led the magaze’s favor, many gay publitns, bs and bars were forced to close the 1950s and the 1969 Stonewall uprisg Manhattan — a rponse to a police raid on a gay bar — the movement quickly built on the mands of femists and black radils.

In the two s sce pharmactil advanc ma AIDS ls lethal the Uned Stat, the gay rights movement has creasgly ma allianc wh ernment and even rporatns to prs s very recently, most gay victori were won at the lol or state level; the feral ernment lagged. Beftg s stat as the 20th, not the first, untry to legalize same-sex marriage, Ameri should preach equaly abroad humbly, acknowledgg that do so wh the zeal of a gay movement has stood for valug all fai — cludg those led by sgle parents, those wh adopted children, and other nfiguratns.

GAY MARRIAGE’S MOMENT

Betrayg our history — fettg what has meant to be gay — would be a price too high to assistant profsor of history at Rutgers Universy, Newark, and the thor of the forthg book “Queer Clout: Chigo and the Rise of Gay Polics.

Put simply, a number of natns have wnsed “sea chang” public opn about gay other strikg feature is the wi variatn across natns public opn about gay rights and gay marriage, as well as related attus about gay men, lbians, and homosexualy (see Table 1). A 2013 survey of 39 natns found “broad acceptance of homosexualy North Ameri, the European Unn, and much of Lat Ameri, but equally wispread rejectn predomantly Mlim natns and Ai, as well as parts of Asia and Rsia” (Pew Rearch Global Attus Project, 2013).

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

Table 1Public opn about gay marriage and homosexualy selected natns NatnSame-sex upl should be allowed to legally marry (%) (Ipsos, 2013)Society should accept homosexualy (%) (Pew Rearch, 2013)Swena 81 – Norwaya 78 – Spaa 76 88 Belgiuma 67 – Germany 67 87 Canadaa 63 80 Atralia 54 79 Francea 51 77 Braa 55 76 Italy 48 74 Argentaa 48 74 Philipp – 73 Mexib – 61 Brazila – 60 Uned Statb 42 60 Hungary 30 – Japan 24 54 Venezuela – 51 Poland 21 42 South Korea 26 39 South Aia – 32 Cha – 21 Rsia – 16 Turkey – 9 Malaysia – 9 Kenya – 8 Indonia – 3 Egypt – 3 Pakistan – 2 Nigeria – 1 NatnSame-sex upl should be allowed to legally marry (%) (Ipsos, 2013)Society should accept homosexualy (%) (Pew Rearch, 2013)Swena 81 – Norwaya 78 – Spaa 76 88 Belgiuma 67 – Germany 67 87 Canadaa 63 80 Atralia 54 79 Francea 51 77 Braa 55 76 Italy 48 74 Argentaa 48 74 Philipp – 73 Mexib – 61 Brazila – 60 Uned Statb 42 60 Hungary 30 – Japan 24 54 Venezuela – 51 Poland 21 42 South Korea 26 39 South Aia – 32 Cha – 21 Rsia – 16 Turkey – 9 Malaysia – 9 Kenya – 8 Indonia – 3 Egypt – 3 Pakistan – 2 Nigeria – 1 Not. ”aAs of June 1, 2014, provid legal regnn for gay marriage all of June 1, 2014, provid legal regnn for gay marriage some 1Public opn about gay marriage and homosexualy selected natns NatnSame-sex upl should be allowed to legally marry (%) (Ipsos, 2013)Society should accept homosexualy (%) (Pew Rearch, 2013)Swena 81 – Norwaya 78 – Spaa 76 88 Belgiuma 67 – Germany 67 87 Canadaa 63 80 Atralia 54 79 Francea 51 77 Braa 55 76 Italy 48 74 Argentaa 48 74 Philipp – 73 Mexib – 61 Brazila – 60 Uned Statb 42 60 Hungary 30 – Japan 24 54 Venezuela – 51 Poland 21 42 South Korea 26 39 South Aia – 32 Cha – 21 Rsia – 16 Turkey – 9 Malaysia – 9 Kenya – 8 Indonia – 3 Egypt – 3 Pakistan – 2 Nigeria – 1 NatnSame-sex upl should be allowed to legally marry (%) (Ipsos, 2013)Society should accept homosexualy (%) (Pew Rearch, 2013)Swena 81 – Norwaya 78 – Spaa 76 88 Belgiuma 67 – Germany 67 87 Canadaa 63 80 Atralia 54 79 Francea 51 77 Braa 55 76 Italy 48 74 Argentaa 48 74 Philipp – 73 Mexib – 61 Brazila – 60 Uned Statb 42 60 Hungary 30 – Japan 24 54 Venezuela – 51 Poland 21 42 South Korea 26 39 South Aia – 32 Cha – 21 Rsia – 16 Turkey – 9 Malaysia – 9 Kenya – 8 Indonia – 3 Egypt – 3 Pakistan – 2 Nigeria – 1 Not. At the dividual level, public opn about gay rights not only reflects broad human, polil, and relig valu (Brewer, 2008; Fzgerald, Wstone, & Prtage, this issue) but may also shape other polil attus and behavrs, cludg voter turnout and vote choice, unr some circumstanc (Campbell & Monson, 2008; Lewis, 2005).

Fzgerald, Wstone, and Prtage extend rearch on such differenc by ttg whether the attus that migrants om Eastern Europe to Wtern Europe hold toward gay men and lbians reflect an acculturatn studi the special issue ntribute to our knowledge about how mography, social ntact, and media n shape public opn about gay rights along wh related attus. L, L, and Loper tt the effects of both terpersonal and imaged ntact on public opn about gay men, lbians, and an antidiscrimatn law Hong Kong (where the visibily of gay men and lbians public life has creased dramatilly), while Panchapakan, Li, and Ho analyze how levels of attentn to tradnal news and Inter news are related to public opn Sgapore (where gay and lbian ntent is censored tradnal media). If so, they should start wh divorce; J was much clearer on that issue than he was about homosexualy, about which he said nothg, however, they tly seek to be biblil the much broar sense of followg J, I ve them to exercise the Christian ethic of love unsttgly.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

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.

A RENCILIATN ON GAY MARRIAGE

If you lived a big Amerin cy durg s spread, you were wns to nstant sorrow and untls exampl of gay people treated as send-class was almost certaly this: the steadfast, heartbroken man beg shut out of his beloved’s fal weeks — not allowed the hospal room, not weled at the grave — bee some fay members disapproved and no law tmped their was a recurrg story, an furiatg lemotif, and many gays and our alli remarked and railed that wouldn’t be happeng if mted same-sex relatnships got the legal regnn that heterosexual on did.

Nothg about this juncture feels quick if you soldiered through AIDS and the untry’s awakeng then to jt how many gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins there are, jt how profound our bonds n be, jt how fiercely we’re willg to fight for them, jt how arntly we ache to be clud.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

It reflected our yearng for a world beyond silence and fear, and we knew that the only way to get there was through the small, aggregate acts of marriage isn’t some overnight e, some progrsive novelty, pecially not when ’s put s proper ntext, as part of a stggle for gay rights that has been plenty long, patient and, the domo of marriage equaly dividual stat have tumbled wh a surprisg velocy.

It would be a stri toward the top of the the first steps go back much further than 2011, than DOMA, than AIDS, even than the Stonewall rts of month, fact, is the 50th anniversary of the first “annual remr, ” a picket Philalphia for gay civil rights. It menced on July 4, 1965, wh jt a few dozen gays and lbians, and occurred yearly through July 4, 1969, as “Gay Pneers, ” a short 2004 documentary, eloquently newer documentari also unrsre the sweat and tears that preced the prent moment. Moreover, through whatever stance of fate or chance, me to pass that I, a gay man at 29 today, fd myself wrg for The Advote, the olst and most venerable LGBT publitn the Uned Stat, at the moment when such an implsible event was hard to register Friday morng, at 7 a.