Should Gay Marriage Be Legal? 6 Pros and Cons

Contents:

• OPN WHY I OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE
• THE PRICE OF GAY MARRIAGE
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• A BAD CALL ON GAY RIGHTS
• EDORIAL: GAY MARRIAGE IS ALL ABOUT EQUALY UNR THE LAW
• EDORIAL: RELIG EEDOM IS NO EXCE FOR DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY UPL
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
• THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!

OPN WHY I OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE

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While the Amerin Fay Associatn promoted boytts of Disney and Amerin Airl for gay-iendly polici, gay rights anizatns went a different directn.

THE PRICE OF GAY MARRIAGE

” Brian Brown — the executive director for California of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, the leadg sgle-issue anti-gay-marriage group, led by people wh close ti to lears the Catholic Church and the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats — boasted after the Grand Hyatt prott that Mr. The next year, he dispatched an ai to an Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn nference wh an offer: $25, 000 sh and $100, 000 hotel creds for droppg the boytt. Only five dividuals, none of them well known natnally, ntributed over $100, 000 to any of the anti-gay-marriage mpaigns relig nomatns rpond to the new prsure.

’”On the other si, however, new donors emerged beyond the tight circle of gay philanthropists who fund marriage-equaly advocy past electn cycl. 5 ln to a mpaign to pass Referendum 74, which would legalize same-sex marriage the state, proponents outspent opponents more than five to pro-gay-marriage activists ually creded chang their persuasive msagg to their improved mpaigns, their most obv new advantage me the form of rourc.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

There was only one week 2012 when anti-gay-marriage ads outnumbered pro-gay-marriage ads the stat wh November ballot measur, and the largt major media markets, pro-gay-marriage mpaigners averaged a two-to-one advertisg then, lls for boytts — as part of a broar iologil e rather than a narrow prott agast specific bs practic — have grown so equent that Amerin polics often feels like a proxy war between rporatns.

When Equaly Matters unearthed donatns to anti-gay om the fay that owns Chick-fil-A, some gay activists proposed boytts, while Republin policians elevated eatg the cha’s sandwich to somethg of a prciple. They would allow discrimatn agast gays and lbians by those who have a relig objectn to same-sex jtic’ posn is extremely worrisome, and uld be an ditn that the Supreme Court will soon create a broad exceptn to anti-discrimatn and Thomas ma their views known on Monday when the urt nied review what should have been an easy se volvg Kim Davis, a urt clerk Kentucky who refed to issue weddg licens to same-sex upl. If Davis had prevailed, then clerks wh a relig objectn to terracial or terfah marriag uld likewise refe to issue marriage right of upl to marry, which the Supreme Court has emed a fundamental liberty, nnot be ma to pend on the relig beliefs of those who issue marriage, while agreeg that the urt should not hear the Davis se, Jtice Thomas, joed by Jtice Alo, took the opportuny to lambaste the Supreme Court’s 2015 lg that tablish a nstutnal right of marriage equaly for gays and lbians.

A BAD CALL ON GAY RIGHTS

”Until readg Thomas on Monday, I had naively assumed that the issue of marriage equaly between gays and lbians had been firmly settled by the urt. Print Tmp’s nomee for the urt, Judge Amy Coney Barrett has said that Jtice Anton Slia’s “judicial philosophy is me too, ” and he wrote a very angry, sarstic dissent to the urt’s fdg a right of gay and lbian upl to if the urt do not overle Obergefell, the nservative jtic are likely to fd a right of people based on their relig beliefs to refe to serve same-sex upl. Although the urt did not ci the relig eedom claim the se, there are siar s around the untry volvg florists and photographers and statnery stor that claim a right to discrimate agast gay and lbian June, the urt held that feral law prohibs employment discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty.

The urt left open whether an employer wh a relig objectn n refe to employ gay, lbian and transgenr current nstutnal law, the answer is clear that relig beliefs are not an exce for discrimatg. There should be no right, based on relign or anythg else, to discrimate agast gays and Chemersky is an of the UC Berkeley School of Law and thor (wh Howard Gillman) of “The Relign Cls: The Case for Separatg Church and State.

Same-sex relatnships are different om heterosexual relatnships, and gay men and lbians need to accept that and sign their own wrer is a -founr of the Natnal Capal Tea Party Patrts. (Drew Angerer/Getty Imag)Support for anti-discrimatn laws and marriage equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people is at an all-time high, acrdg to a report released early Tuday by the Public Relign Rearch Instute. Whe evangelil Prottants were the only relig group whout majory support for same-sex marriage; 43% of that group back gay and lbian You Should See - March 2021Support for nondiscrimatn laws for LGBT people was hight the mid-Atlantic and Pacific stat, where 79% of people back such l.

EDORIAL: GAY MARRIAGE IS ALL ABOUT EQUALY UNR THE LAW

But even the area wh the lowt support for such protectn – the Southeast stat of Kentucky, Tennsee, Alabama and Mississippi – 69% of those surveyed support such laws, PRRI than 6 out of 10 Amerins, or 61%, oppose allowg small bs to refe products or servic to gay or lbian people if dog so vlat the vendors' relig beliefs, while 33% believe bs should be able to ny servic on relig, perhaps the most dramatic fdg, the report revealed that jt a small actn of the Amerin public – 7% – is pletely agast pro-LGBT polici, cludg antidiscrimatn laws and same-sex study as the Senate wrtl wh the Equaly Act, legislatn that would prohib discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty. ”As the number of anti-LGBTQ bills hs rerd highs, rearch shows that so, too, has support for LGBTQ rights and polici prohibg discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people.

EDORIAL: RELIG EEDOM IS NO EXCE FOR DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY UPL

McDarrah/Getty ImagThe Supreme Court’s cisn affirmg the right to same-sex marriage across the Uned Stat is a joyo moment for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins. But uld also be the swan song for the movement for gay eedom that began after World War is unfortunate that the movement’s two great victori of the last — the right to serve openly the ary and the right to be married — have e as progrs has stalled or reversed so many other areas of civil rights: equal pay and reproductive choice for women; hog and school segregatn; police vlence agast mori; and the prospects of a cent wage and a modicum of job and retirement secury for is no accint that the one civil rights law that would likely apply to the greatt numbers of gays — a ban on discrimatn employment and hog on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty — ntu to elu .

An anti-discrimatn law creat substantial sts not only for the ernment, which mt enforce , but also for rporatns, which mt ply wh ; lettg gays to ary service and to the stutn of marriage do not. Freedom to Marry, the advocy group that has led the marriage equaly movement, was 2013 the largt recipient of money om foundatns that foc on gay . Will even a actn of the energy and money that have been poured to the marriage fight be available to transgenr people, homels teenagers, victims of job discrimatn, lbian and gay refuge and asylum seekers, isolated gay elrly or other vulnerable members of our muny?

Around the same time New York State legalized same-sex marriage, 2011, was slashg funds for servic to homels youth, who are disproportnately gay or movement for gay rights that began after World War II was waged om society’s margs; s most outspoken proponents sought to overturn social nventn, not jo . It was not at all evable that the movement would one day alce around 1953, the first year of s publitn, the natnal gay magaze ONE dismissed the ia that gays might one day be allowed to marry. Though the Supreme Court led the magaze’s favor, many gay publitns, bs and bars were forced to close the 1950s and the 1969 Stonewall uprisg Manhattan — a rponse to a police raid on a gay bar — the movement quickly built on the mands of femists and black radils.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR

When the tennis champn Billie Jean Kg was outed as a lbian 1981, she lost many of her mercial AIDS crisis of the 1980s vastated the gay muny, but also mobilized . The crisis revealed, matters like child ctody, hospal visatn and end-of-life re, the impact of excludg gays om even as AIDS renewed longstandg fear of gays, also propelled them to the polil mastream. In the two s sce pharmactil advanc ma AIDS ls lethal the Uned Stat, the gay rights movement has creasgly ma allianc wh ernment and even rporatns to prs s very recently, most gay victori were won at the lol or state level; the feral ernment lagged.

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

Obama’s Jtice Department refed to fend a key provisn of the Defense of Marriage Act (another Clton-era legacy), before the Supreme Court stck that provisn down two years Gay Pri Month won’t soon be fotten. Proment Republins, libertarians, fanciers and chief executiv have given their nam, time and money to the e of same-sex many more gay and transgenr Amerins are permanent outsirs. Beftg s stat as the 20th, not the first, untry to legalize same-sex marriage, Ameri should preach equaly abroad humbly, acknowledgg that do so wh the zeal of a gay movement has stood for valug all fai — cludg those led by sgle parents, those wh adopted children, and other nfiguratns.

Betrayg our history — fettg what has meant to be gay — would be a price too high to assistant profsor of history at Rutgers Universy, Newark, and the thor of the forthg book “Queer Clout: Chigo and the Rise of Gay Polics. US public opn had shifted signifintly over the years, om 27% approval of gay marriage 1996 to 55% 2015, the year beme legal throughout the Uned Stat, to 61% 2019.