Why Gay Rights Are Not The New Civil Rights | Stephen H. Webb | First Thgs

Contents:

• IS GAY MARRIAGE A MORAL ISSUE OR A CIVIL LIBERTI ISSUE? - PT. 1
• WHEN GAY MARRIAGE IS A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE VS. WHEN IS IT NOT
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• IS GAY RIGHTS A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE? TWO LAWYERS OM OPPOSE ENDS OF THE IOLOGIL SPECTM SAY, “Y.”
• WHY GAY RIGHTS ARE NOT THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS

IS GAY MARRIAGE A MORAL ISSUE OR A CIVIL LIBERTI ISSUE? - PT. 1

The polls make clear that younger evangelils support gay marriage larger numbers than their elrs, but the exact number of supporters is still opn on same sex marriage and unns the Uned Stat th reveals a great al of change a short perd of time and signifint regnal dispary.

S., many supporters of same sex unns believe that the most accurate way to discs support for same sex unns the Uned Stat is on a state-by-state or regn-to-regn Keller, a natnally regnized pastor New York Cy explaed that "you n believe homosexualy is a s and still believe that same-sex marriage should be legal.

Articl on changg attus among GOP youth illtrate the move toward separatg ernment-sanctned marriage and church-sanctned experience at Harvard wh the gay munyIn the sprg of 2011 I was part of a group of ten speakers at a nference at Harvard Universy. We still held our beliefs about what the Bible says about beg gay, but we uld have a healthy discsn about and love them as people ma the image of God servg the ncln of our time the profsor that morated our discsn turned to the gay activists and said, "Gentlemen, I have jt gone through the entire nference and never heard one negative ment about gays.

WHEN GAY MARRIAGE IS A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE VS. WHEN IS IT NOT

"I fd that the gay muny, as well as the Christian muny, holds certa bias agast one another that's based on past behavrs of each wh extreme judgmental altus. To classify their behavr as sful is very different than classifyg as the way I was hung out wh sners, even homosexualsWhile J was havg dner at Matthew's hoe, many gays and sners me and ate wh him and his discipl (Matthew 9:9, 10).

" My gus is that if J were livg today He would beiend gays to let them experience His love personally hop they might embrace God's love stead of Satan's unterfe love.

And he actually started workg around marriage equaly or at least had this - advotg around and for the rights of gays and lbians before the LGBT movement embraced marriage equaly.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

And that, you know, and he - bee he saw the nnectn between that and the civil rights movement, and, you know, and when I first met Byron, I had been relatnship for over 12 years wh my partner, and I didn't thk that marriage was an important part or somethg that I should stggle for or advote for, wh regards to where the gays and lbians -where gay and lbian folks should put their energi and efforts.

And I was really terted makg this film bee so many of my whe gay and lbian iends would jt blanketly(ph) state, well, Ain-Amerins are eher homophobic or agast marriage equaly.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

(Soundbe of lghter) CONAN: But neverthels, the state of Maryland, gay marriage was up for vote the legislature and looked like was gog to pass and feated this year. But the thg that I thk is very important to nsir is that those that are phg for the legalizatn of gay marriage are sayg to me, who don't - a person who don't believe that gay marriage is somethg that we should adopt as a untry, that my way is right and your way is wrong.

And I don't want to force my opn or anyone on - or anythg on anyone else, but I thk that legal benefs n be endowed to those who enter to gay marriage - or, I'm sorry, enter to gay relatnships whout actually llg marriage, which my opn is a relig... And I thk that 's, you know, gays and lbians are jt as servg to have their relatnships and their fai validated and reap the rewards of havg a stable fay. So as Byron talks about the film, you know, y, your relign may say or your church, more specifilly, may be agast gay marriage, but the church down the street might be for gay marriage.

IS GAY RIGHTS A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE? TWO LAWYERS OM OPPOSE ENDS OF THE IOLOGIL SPECTM SAY, “Y.”

CONAN: Another argument om Tmp(ph) - Mark(ph), who emails this om Burnsville Mnota: Do seeg gay marriage as not a civil rights issue mean you see gay as a choice? As Coretta Stt Kg said rponse to Gee Bh's announcement that he supports a nstutnal amendment banng gays and lbians om gettg married, "A nstutnal amendment banng same-sex marriag is a form of gay bashg and would do nothg at all to protect tradnal marriag.

WHY GAY RIGHTS ARE NOT THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS

In fact, the ngrsnal thors of the proposed nstutnal amendment to ban gay marriage have revised their origal versn to allow for same-sex civil unns--effectively adoptg Kerry's posn.

This is the same bankpt logic that led activists to endorse Bill Clton's re-electn mpaign--after he had signed the antigay Defense of Marriage Act 1996. If there is one thg we have learned om the Relig Right durg the fight over gay marriage, is that parg this issue to the Civil Rights Movement is both utterly accurate and extremely offensive:. But, as turns out, the fight over gay marriage is a civil rights battle – a battle to protect the civil rights of Christians, acrdg to the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage’s Brian Brown:.

Phg back agast parisons between laws banng terracial marriage wh on that prohib gays and lbians om marryg, Brown ntend, “Marriage is not based upon race.