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. 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. Letters|Gay Marriage, Relign and the Court ADVERTISEMENTlettersRears take issue wh an opn wrten by Jtice Clarence Thomas and joed by Jtice Samuel Drago for The New York TimTo the Edor:Re “Thomas and Alo Raise Doubts on Same-Sex Marriage Rulg” (news article, Oct.

THE PRICE OF GAY MARRIAGE

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.

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 . 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?

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

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. 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).

GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI

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). 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).

GAY MARRIAGE’S MOMENT

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. 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. 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. 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.

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

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. They were welg oas across a untry, which, as an terracial gay uple, we were aaid to disclose that we were same-sex the time, was standard operatg procre that one of , alone, would accept the room key om the hotel receptnist.

On Friday, I attend a rally Wt Hollywood, perhaps one of the queert ci the world, listeng to the relig and muny lears, and the lol gay celebri, liver songs and speech about the great succs we have achieved wh the Supreme Court's regnn of natnwi marriage equaly. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA supposed requt for a webse for a same-sex weddg played a mor role a major clash between ee speech and gay rights at the Supreme Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex Jiang for The New York TimAfter the Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex marriag, crics of the cisn raised qutns about a form clud urt papers the se that appeared to show that a gay uple had sought the servic of the signer, Lorie man who supposedly submted the form said he was unaware of s existence until a reporter for The New Republic lled him. Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square.

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

Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right.

Bee most state laws that protect gays om discrimatn already clu some relig exemptns, and those provisns are for the most part unntroversial, even among while most Amerins who favor keepg marriage as has ctomarily been would prefer no legal regnn of same-sex unns at eher the feral or the state level, we believe that they n live wh feral civil unns — provid that no relig groups are forced to accept them as marriag.

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 RENCILIATN ON GAY MARRIAGE

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 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. 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. 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.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

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. 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.