McLennan County Jtice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsu after a state agency warned her about refg to marry gay upl. She hop a recent U.S. Supreme Court se about relig eedom helps her e.
Contents:
- TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
- GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
In most public discsns, the issue of same-sex marriage is posed as a simple qutn – for or agast? – where to be for or agast is to be, more or ls, for or agast gay people. Although don’t… * why is gay marriage a social problem *
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. Homosexual upl g vro fertilizatn (IVF) or surrogate mothers liberately create a class of children who will live apart om their mother or father. A number of leadg profsnal associatns have asserted that there are "no differenc" between children raised by homosexuals and those raised by heterosexuals.
GAY MARRIAGE
The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry. * why is gay marriage a social problem *
Soclogist Steven Nock of the Universy of Virgia, who is agnostic on the issue of same-sex civil marriage, offered this review of the lerature on gay parentg as an expert wns for a Canadian urt nsirg legalizatn of same-sex civil marriage:.
Although the evince on child out is sketchy, do suggt that children raised by lbians or homosexual men are more likely to experience genr and sexual disorrs. In the first edn of his book fense of same-sex marriage, Virtually Normal, homosexual mentator Andrew Sullivan wrote: "There is more likely to be greater unrstandg of the need for extramaral outlets between two men than between a man and a woman. It is plsible to spect that legal regnn of homosexual civil marriage would have siar nsequenc for the stutn of marriage; that is, would further stabilize the norm that adults should sacrifice to get and stay married for the sake of their children.
If the distctive sexual patterns of "mted" gay upl are any ditn (see above), is unlikely that homosexual marriage would domtite men the way that heterosexual marriage do. For stance, 45% of adults the Silent Generatn (those born between 1928 and 1945) favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, pared wh 74% of Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996).
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
4As wh the general public, Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) are most likely to ce love as a very important reason for gettg married. Sce then, several other European untri – cludg England and Wal, France, Ireland, all of Sndavia, Spa and, most recently, Atria, Germany and Malta – have legalized gay marriage. This was, sentially, a backlash agast gay marriage that proved that pro-gay marriage iativ were gag ground, even as stat moved to unter them.
Although don’t get much airtime beyond queer unterpublics, there is an adamantly left-wg, progrsive and pro-gay perspective that suggts same-sex marriage is not a necsary good. Lbian and gay muni, and the femist muni wh which they have historilly overlapped, have long celebrated the valu of sexual diversy over the sexual nformy reprented by marriage and the ethil importance of sexual straight-talkg rather than the double-standards so equently observed marriage’s vicy. Gay men and lbians n sneak around wh the bt of them, of urse, but marriage, as is legally fed, generat ndns for dishonty, disavowal and sexual hypocrisy.
There’s a tenncy among s proponents to reprent same-sex marriage as the fal chapter the story of gay acceptance, “the last civil right” as has sometim exaggeratedly been lled. It is large part bee of femist and gay novatns livg that marriage today is creasgly unrstood not as a relig but a social relatn; characterised not by male domatn but equaly and mutualy between the sex; valued not terms of s ntractual basis but terms of s ongog ntributn to a person’s sense of well-beg; and mataed not until ath-do--part but for as long as both parti fd satisfactn .
GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
Rather than adm lbians and gay men to marriage as currently nceived, we should avow more fully the range of optns that characterise a lot of our liv and livg arrangements. The argument favor of extendg legal marriage to same-sex upl pends primarily on wantg to extend the benefs and privileg of marriage to lbian and gay upl.
In regnisg some gay and lbian relatnships as marriag, same-sex marriage emphasis the ntued illegimacy of other sexual arrangements and the ntued excln of other social actors. Now this ragtag bunch might not seem as worthy of social protectn and prtige as the lovg, rg, long-term gay and lbian upl that are the shy new poster boys and girls for same-sex marriage. What we would ll the "gay rights movement" or the "LGBT muny, " that's a very big aln, and there are a whole lot of different nstuenci: gay men and lbians who are vted marriage, [as well as] bisexual and transgenr people who often uld marry the people that they love, regardls of what state law was about marriage.
You go back to the 1990s when this bate emerged, and there were people whose top prry was segregatg ary and ernment service so openly gay people uld serve, or who wanted jt basic nondiscrimatn protectns, [like] wrg sexual orientatn to hate crim laws. And one of the sort of remarkable parts of the story is not jt how ultimately gay marriage mpaigners triumphed over opponents of same-sex marriage, but how wh their own LGBT muny and polil movement, they raised the issue of marriage so that went higher and higher on the list of prri. I wre about a meetg that they had the sprg of 2005, when a lot of gay rights activists saw this e at a low pot, and they set out a path to get a wng se before the Supreme Court wh 20 years.