Straight Women and Their Gay Hbands | Psychology Today

Contents:

• STRAIGHT WOMEN AND THEIR GAY HBANDS
• WOMEN GOT ‘MARRIED’ LONG BEFORE GAY MARRIAGE
• STRAIGHT UPL GET MARRIED EARLIER THAN GAY UPL. HERE'S A LOOK AT WHY.
• GIRLS MORE LIKELY THAN BOYS TO APPROVE OF GAY MARRIAGE

STRAIGHT WOMEN AND THEIR GAY HBANDS

Scholars and the general public beme creasgly terted the issue durg the late 20th century, a perd when attus toward homosexualy and laws regulatg homosexual behavur were liberalized, particularly wtern Europe and the Uned issue of same-sex marriage equently sparked emotnal and polil clash between supporters and opponents.

Cultur that openly accepted homosexualy, of which there were many, generally had nonmaral tegori of partnership through which such bonds uld be exprsed and socially regulated. Relig and secular expectatns of marriage and sexualy Over time the historil and tradnal cultur origally rerd by the lik of Bachofen and Man slowly succumbed to the homogenizatn imposed by lonialism. In other s, the cultural homogeney supported by the domant relign did not rult the applitn of doctre to the civic realm but may nohels have fostered a smoother seri of discsns among the cizenry: Belgium and Spa had legalized same-sex marriage, for stance, spe official opposn om their predomant relig stutn, the Roman Catholic Church.

Most of the world religns have at some pots their histori opposed same-sex marriage for one or more of the followg stated reasons: homosexual acts vlate natural law or dive tentns and are therefore immoral; passag sacred texts nmn homosexual acts; and relig tradn regniz only the marriage of one man and one woman as valid. The Unarian Universalist church and the gay-oriented Universal Fellowship of Metropolan Communy Church fully accepted same-sex marriage. G., male-female, man-woman, gay-straight) and to replace the wh tegori or ntua that they believed better reflect the actual practic of humany.

WOMEN GOT ‘MARRIED’ LONG BEFORE GAY MARRIAGE

Hodg legalized gay marriage natnwi, cludg the 14 stat that did not prevly allow gays and lbians to wed.

Adults (37%) favored allowg gays and lbians to wed 2009, a share that rose to 62% 2017. 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).

STRAIGHT UPL GET MARRIED EARLIER THAN GAY UPL. HERE'S A LOOK AT WHY.

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. Is among 29 untri and jurisdictns that allow gay and lbian upl to wed.

GIRLS MORE LIKELY THAN BOYS TO APPROVE OF GAY MARRIAGE

The first natn to legalize gay marriage was the Netherlands, which did so 2000. 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.