Ten Reasons to Support Gay Marriage | Psychology Today

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI
• TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• 7 WAYS THE U.S.A. BENEFS FROM THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE
• WHY THE BATTLE FOR GAY MARRIAGE WAS WON SO EASILY
• GROWG SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE: CHANGED MDS AND CHANGG DEMOGRAPHICS
• GAY MARRIAGE

GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI

As recently as 2004, nearly twice as many Amerins opposed than favored allowg gay and lbian people to marry legally; by 2019, public opn had reversed, wh 61% favor and 31% opposed. The first to be wed San Francis were Del Mart and Phyllis Lyon, pneerg gay-rights activists who have been a uple for more than 50 years.

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

History has turned a rner: Gay upl – cludg gay parents – live openly and for the most part fortably mastream life. They should nsir how much ls ial an example gay upl will set by buildg fai and raisg children out of wedlock. What if gay marriage be a vehicle for polygamists who want to marry multiple partners, egalarians who want to radilly rewre fay law, or secularists who want to supprs relig objectns to homosexualy?

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. I’ll also note, passg, that the arguments nscript homosexuals to marriagelsns orr to stop heterosexuals om makg bad cisns, a al to which we gay folks say, “Thanks, but no thanks.

Still, ’s wise to guard agast untend nsequenc by tryg gay marriage one or two stat and seeg what happens, which is exactly what the untry is dog. Ameri needs more marriag, not fewer, and the bt way to enurage marriage is to enurage marriage, which is what society do by brgg gay upl si the tent.

7 WAYS THE U.S.A. BENEFS FROM THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE

The other is as the end of somethg radil: an experiment which gay people were told that they uld have all the sex and love they uld fd, but they uld not even thk about marriage.

WHY THE BATTLE FOR GAY MARRIAGE WAS WON SO EASILY

If I take the send view, is on nservative – fact, tradnal – grounds that gay souls and straight society are healthit when sex, love and marriage all walk step. 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). 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.

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. Some of the reasons are taken om the posn statement of the Amerin Psychoanalytic Associatn on gay marriage approved 1997 and revised 2008. To read the entire statement and other Amerin psychoanalytic Associatn posn statements on gay rights and other social issu, click here.

GROWG SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE: CHANGED MDS AND CHANGG DEMOGRAPHICS

Gays and lbians face more strs throughout life — precisely bee of their sexual mory stat — and this strs tak a toll on their health. But my empiril fdgs show that when one spoe is serly ill, gay and lbian spo tend to be even more supportive of each other than are heterosexual spo. Sometim people talk as if marriage equaly is all about givg gay and lbian upl the same benefs as heterosexual upl.

Securg marriage equaly for gay and lbian people n provi broar lsons about how to crease the health-buildg properti of marriage for all Amerins. There are at least seven ways which the legalizatn of gay marriage is beneficial for LGBT Amerins and the Uned Stat of Ameri.

This promotn of equaly and non-discrimatn plays an extremely important role rcg homophobia and affirmg a mory group society which has for so long endured signifint discrimatn and stigmatizatn. Legalizg same-sex marriage munit to lns of people across the untry that gay relatnships are of equal value to straight relatnships, thereby helpg to rce tergroup prejudice and supportg cultural diversy. Around the natn there are lns of children beg raised hoeholds led by same-sex upl, many of whom are nied the right to legally marry their home nial of equal marriage rights unfairly disadvantag children who are raised by same-sex upl ridg stat where gay marriage is not legal or not regnized.

GAY MARRIAGE

The legalizatn of gay marriage helps to addrs this jtice by supportg fay stabily and validatg the worths of fai led by same-sex upl. Gay marriage tourism benefs those regns which perm same-sex marriage by attractg gay upl om other stat and untri where is not legal. Most large bs unrstand the importance of regnizg gay marriage bee enabl them to more readily reta LGBT staff and ctomers.

Not surprisgly, an creasg number of natnal and global pani are now exprsg support for marriage equaly and speakg out favor of gay marriage. The removal of anti-gay discrimatn all state and feral laws that apply to marriage would play a key role enhancg Ameri's ternatnal reputatn matters of social jtice and rtorg our tegry as a global lear the provisn of civil and human rights.

I look forward to the day when the provisn of marriage equaly is embraced and valued as a re feature of Amerin culture and when "we the people" n rightly be claimed to clu Lipp is the Admistrator of Gay Marriage USA on Facebook. What if the fg gay rights mand of the past generatn had not been equal marriage rights but an affirmative-actn program for employment areas — say, the feral ernment — where gay men and lbians had suffered historic discrimatn?