Proponents ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, opponents ague that marriage is primarily for procreatn.
Contents:
- TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
- 8 REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE ...
- 27 REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
- WHY NOT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?
- 31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
- 'COLLEGE HUMOR' GIV MEN A REASON TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
Bt arguments agast same-sex "marriage." Learn them and w every bate. See why gay marriage is wrong. * 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.
8 REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE ...
Why are upl the gay muny fightg so hard for gay marriage? This is a list of legal, fancial, and health benefs granted by marriage. * reasons to support gay marriage *
Some of the reasons are taken om the posn statement of the Amerin Psychoanalytic Associatn on gay marriage approved 1997 and revised 2008.
27 REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
* reasons to support gay marriage *
To read the entire statement and other Amerin psychoanalytic Associatn posn statements on gay rights and other social issu, click here. Here are some of the reasons why I support gay of ntents:EqualyLoveLongevyAcceptanceLegal RightsStabilyHarmlsWe Are Who We Are1 EqualyI firmly believe that we are all equal, and that everyone should be treated the same. Many gay upl have been together for years, so why should they not have that relatnship officially regnised if they so wish?
GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
Supportg gay marriage is to me a sign of te acceptance of people all their varieti5 Legal RightsIt n’t be right that a person a long-standg gay relatnship has no herance rights and no say if their partner be ill or di.
Gay upl have the right to get married bee they are who they are, and there is nothg wrong wh that at all.
In the name of the “fay, ” same-sex “marriage” serv to validate not only such unns but the whole homosexual liftyle all s bisexual and transgenr variants. Homosexual activists argue that same-sex “marriage” is a civil rights issue siar to the stggle for racial equaly the 1960s.
WHY NOT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?
If homosexual “marriage” is universally accepted as the prent step sexual “eedom, ” what logil arguments n be ed to stop the next steps of ct, pedophilia, btialy, and other forms of unnatural behavr?
The railroadg of same-sex “marriage” on the Amerin people mak creasgly clear what homosexual activist Pl Varnell wrote the Chigo Free Prs:"The gay movement, whether we acknowledge or not, is not a civil rights movement, not even a sexual liberatn movement, but a moral revolutn aimed at changg people's view of homosexualy. Genis also teach how God punished Sodom and Gomorrah for the s of homosexualy: “The Lord raed down sulphuro fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah. In tellectually opposg dividuals or anizatns promotg the homosexual agenda, our only tent is the fense of tradnal marriage, the fay, and the prec remnants of Christian civilizatn.
31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)
As practicg Catholics, we are filled wh passn and pray for those who stggle agast unrelentg and vlent temptatn to homosexual s. We pray also for the judg, legislators and ernment officials who one way or another take steps that favor homosexualy and same-sex “marriage. To the arguments favor of homosexualy and same-sex “marriage” we rpond wh arguments based on right reason, natural law and Dive Revelatn.
Jonathan Rch, an openly gay man and thor of Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights and Good for Ameri, once said to a mostly straight dience durg an terview, "You broke , and you'll have to fix . Gay marriage lets claim maral munitns privilege, meang a urt n't force to disclose the ntents of nfintial munitns durg your marriage. Hodg legalized gay marriage natnwi, cludg the 14 stat that did not prevly allow gays and lbians to wed.
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).
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
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. 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. 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.
'COLLEGE HUMOR' GIV MEN A REASON TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
In every class, for the past 20 odd years, I have ved a gay former stunt, Lee FzGerald, to speak on gay relatnships. 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.
The attus of Santa Clara stunts have evolved signifintly the last two s vis à vis gay and lbian relatnships.