Part 5. Gay marriage: The arguments people hear about a major social issue | Pew Rearch Center

Contents:

• TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE: PROS, CONS, AND WHERE BOTH PARTI STAND
• FIVE ARGUMENTS FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
• ARGUMENTS FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• PART 5. GAY MARRIAGE: THE ARGUMENTS PEOPLE HEAR ABOUT A MAJOR SOCIAL ISSUE
• 31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)
• SAME BIBLE, DIFFERENT VERDICT ON GAY MARRIAGE

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

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.

Statistics suggt, however, that gays and lbians are not creasg number, if we accept the bt rearch data of Edward Lmann, who puts the number at about 5% of the populatn1. What has grown is a much greater acceptance of gays and lbians our culture, as well as the social and enomic eedom for gays and lbians to emerge om the closet that has nfed them for so many generatns.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

The recent addn of same sex mment ceremoni the Sunday New York Tim weddg and engagement announcements and the populary of shows as "Will and Grace" and "Queer Eye…" dite a shift our culture's attu toward gays and lbians. My tent was two-fold: first to ve stunts to dialogue wh people different om themselv; send, to work to elimate, whatever small way I uld, homophobic attus on our mp and our muny.

My purpose today is not to support or fend gay and lbian marriag—ed, many gays and lbians do not want to marry—but simply suggt a theologil approach that might open up the possibily for greater Christian acceptance of, and eccliastil approval for, same sex unns. "Consiratns Regardg Proposals to Give Legal Regnn to Unns Between Homosexual Persons" (CDF): nnot promote any form of civil regnn of same-sex unns, formally or materially.

Catholic sistence: one n uphold the digny of homosexual people while not upholdg their right-to-marry; no unjt discrimatn towards homosexuals is acceptable; they mt be treated wh rpect, and their rights fend. Convergg l of evince also suggt that sexual orientatn stigma and discrimatn are at least associated wh creased psychologil distrs and a generally creased qualy of life among lbians and gay men. A US study that surveyed more than 36, 000 people aged 18-70 found lbian, gay and bisexual dividuals were far ls psychologilly distrsed if they were a legally regnised same-sex marriage than if they were not.

GAY MARRIAGE

So, would seem that beg a legally regnised same-sex marriage n at least partly overe the substantial health dispary between heterosexual and lbian, gay, and bisexual persons. A review of the rearch examg the impact of marriage nial on the health and wellbeg of gay men and lbians nced that marriage equaly is a profoundly plex and nuanced issue.

Of further ncern is rearch fdg that parison to lbian, gay and bisexual rponnts livg areas where gay marriage was allowed, livg areas where was banned was associated wh signifintly higher rat of:.

GAY MARRIAGE: PROS, CONS, AND WHERE BOTH PARTI STAND

Not a sgle study has found children of lbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged any signifint rpect relative to children of heterosexual parents.

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups.

Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners. C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch.

FIVE ARGUMENTS FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs. That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S.

Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v. The state fally troduced the untry to gay marriage (m the feral benefs) when began issug same-sex marriage licens on May 17, that year, the U. 2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage.

THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!

Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire. Domtic Partnerships Throughout the and the begng of the next, California equently ma headl for seawg on the gay marriage state was the first to pass a domtic partnership statute 1999, and legislators tried to pass a same-sex marriage bill 2005 and 2007. Perry legalized same-sex marriage early 2010s ntued the state-level battl over gay marriage that fed the precedg , wh at least one notable event.

For the first time the untry’s history, voters (rather than judg or legislators) Mae, Maryland, and Washgton approved Constutnal amendments permtg same-sex marriage marriage also beme a feral issue 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA—the part of the 1996 law that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman—to be unnstutnal. Wdsor, nservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn June this time, was still outlawed only 13 stat, and more than 20 other untri had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands December 2000.

ARGUMENTS FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Also, gay marriage licens, higher e tax some circumstanc, and creas overhead for ernment benef programs all rult creased ernment revenue.

Wh a uple of years after Obergefell, a majory of both dividuals over the age of 65 and Prottant Christians supported legalized gay marriage.

In 2021, natnwi support for gay marriage fally ched over 70% — cludg 55% of Republins, the first time the majory of the GOP has supported gay marriage rights. In 1996, Bill Clton signed to law the Defense Of Marriage Act, which permted state law to not regnize same-sex marriag performed other stat, as well as preventg the feral ernment om regnizg gay marriage at the feral level.

PART 5. GAY MARRIAGE: THE ARGUMENTS PEOPLE HEAR ABOUT A MAJOR SOCIAL ISSUE

Massachetts was the first state the Uned Stat to perm gay marriage after the Massachetts Supreme Judicial Court led that allowg only oppose-sex marriag was discrimatory and illegal. On June 26, 2015, gay marriage was legalized all stat of the Uned Stat, natnwi, when the Supreme Court hand down the Obergefell cisn statg that same-sex marriage was protected unr two cls of the Fourteenth Amendment.

In 1989, Denmark beme the first untry the world to offer civil unns to same-sex partners, which offered some (but not all) marriage rights to gay 2001, the Netherlands passed a bill legalizg gay marriage — the first untry to do so, as well as the first 2003, Belgium legalized same-sex 2003, urts two Canadian provc cid that gay marriage was a nstutnal right Ontar, then Brish Columbia. In 2005, Canada legalized same-sex marriage natnwi — the first untry North Ameri to do 2006, South Ai beme the first Ain untry to legalize same-sex 2010, Argenta beme the first South Amerin untry to legalize gay 2013, New Zealand beme the first Oceanic untry to legalize same-sex 2019, Taiwan beme the first Asian natn to legalize gay recently 2022, all Mexin jurisdictns had legalized gay marriage, eher by legislatn, executive actn, or a Supreme Court orr. However, transgenr and gay rights are not equal across all Mexin stat and Augt 2022, the small untry of Andorra legalized gay marriage, but won’t take effect until Febary 2023.

Acrdg to recent polls, Japane people are the most approvg of gay marriage among cizens of untri that don’t currently have same-sex marriage rights. On the oppose si of the pollg spectm, Ecuador’s urts legalized gay marriage 2019, spe s cizens disapprovg of gay marriage 51% to 23% — the lowt approval ratg any untry wh equal marriage rights.

31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)

” The rollary of this argument is that heterosexuals have no right to lecture homosexuals about marriage bee so many marriag already end failure. Acceptg the ncept of ‘gays’ took a long time for society, so when one tak to the next level and adds ‘marriage’ to the al, there are bound to be arguments agast this.

In the sectns that follows, we shall look through some arguments that speak for gay marriag and try to unrstand what the society has to say about this topic. It is a basic human right that people have the eedom to choose who they wish to marry and that nnot be nied to them based on their sexual makp, whether is lbianism or beg gay. They not only help providg secury, but also help formg a relatnship that is secure and monogamo, th qutg the high-risk sexual patterns that are almost always nsired synonymo wh gay life.

SAME BIBLE, DIFFERENT VERDICT ON GAY MARRIAGE

Though this bate will probably always ntue, is up to as dividuals to unrstand homosexualy as a ncept and give a fair shot… not disrd on the basis of a basels argument. Examg the extent to which rponnts had greater exposure to the arguments supportg their viewpot, we fd some evince that people have been exposed to more arguments support of their posn on gay marriage than arguments challengg their posn. It had no effect on exposure to argument supportg gay marriage, and rponnts on both sis wh broadband accs typilly had heard more arguments challengg gay marriage than those who share their pot of view but don’t have broadband.

People who said they enjoyed readg about different thgs, and those who said they sometim change their mds after reachg an opn were both more faiar wh the statements about gay marriage than those who didn’t. Supporters of same-sex marriage ntend that gay and lbian upl should be treated no differently than their heterosexual unterparts and that they should be able to marry like anyone else.

They pot out, for stance, that homosexual upl who have been together for years often fd themselv whout the basic rights and privileg that are currently enjoyed by heterosexual upl who legally marry — om the sharg of health and pensn benefs to hospal visatn rights.