Gay Marriage: Theologil and Moral Arguments - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Contents:

• MANY SUCCSFUL GAY MARRIAG SHARE AN OPEN SECRET
• STUDY USG GAY CANVASSERS ERRED METHODS, NOT RULTS, AUTHOR SAYS
• HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG – ARE STRAIGHT AND GAY MARRIAG INTIL?
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• HOW A GAY-MARRIAGE STUDY WENT WRONG

MANY SUCCSFUL GAY MARRIAG SHARE AN OPEN SECRET

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. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.

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. 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.".

STUDY USG GAY CANVASSERS ERRED METHODS, NOT RULTS, AUTHOR SAYS

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.

We pray also for the judg, legislators and ernment officials who one way or another take steps that favor homosexualy and same-sex “marriage.” We do not judge their tentns, terr disposns, or personal motivatns. To the arguments favor of homosexualy and same-sex “marriage” we rpond wh arguments based on right reason, natural law and Dive Revelatn.

HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG – ARE STRAIGHT AND GAY MARRIAG INTIL?

The qutn was central to the fense strategy of supporters of Michigan’s ban on gay marriage, which was challenged by a lawsu and went to trial March 2014. For an overall exploratn of the challeng and potential l of cricism this field, see “Gay & Lbian Parentg, ” a review of the rearch lerature by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn. Abstract: “Extensive data available om more than 30 years of rearch reveal that children raised by gay and lbian parents have monstrated rilience wh regard to social, psychologil, and sexual health spe enomic and legal dispari and social stigma.

Fdgs: “Gay and lbian adoptive parents this sample fell to the sirable range of the parentg sle and their children have strength levels equal to or exceedg the sle norms. As the Pew Rearch Center has documented through var surveys, societal opn on the issue has begun to swg dramatilly favor of acceptg gay upl over the past . Amic scholarship and rearch have much to say on the dynamics of the same-sex marriage bate the public square and wh lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muni.

The end of DOMA is also likely to further plite the law of terstate regnn, as more gay upl have their marriag regnized for feral law purpos, such as tax, but not unr state laws that regulate divorce, ctody and property divisn… Lastly, the thor qutns whether the issue of ‘accintal procreatn’ that has bee a theme urt cisns related to same-sex marriage may migrate to marriage law more generally. Usg data om the natnally reprentative Portras of Amerin Life Study, I tt whether dividuals’ re works morate the effect of personal ntact wh gays and lbians on same-sex marriage attus.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

Sce the social work profsn po social jtice valu for those who are opprsed, cln of gays and lbians this missn mt take a higher prry, pecially light of the social pricns that has recently emerged. In addn to admisterg three quantative measur (Gay and Lbian Acceptance and Social Support Inx, Anticipated Impact of Marriage Sle, and The Couple Satisfactn Inx), a qualative approach to quiry was ed to rive them the reported experienc of the study participants.

HOW A GAY-MARRIAGE STUDY WENT WRONG

Fdgs: “The study ed the Massachetts legimizatn of gay marriage as a dividg pot to look at what kds of specific polil or social topics related to gay marriage were highlighted the news media…The rults dited that The New York Tim was cled to emphasize the topic of human equaly related to the legimizatn of gay marriage. Fdgs: “Participants a legally regnized relatnship reported ls ternalized homophobia, fewer prsive symptoms, lower levels of strs, and more meang their liv than those mted relatnships, even after ntrollg for other factors.

In fact, rearchers have found that the majory of lbian, and gay, adults are mted relatnships and many upl have been together 10 or more years. Empiril rearch also shows that lbian and gay upl have levels of relatnship satisfactn siar to or higher than those of heterosexual upl.

The fai and iends of lbian and gay upl who are nied marriage rights may also experience negative physil and mental health nsequenc siar to those experienced by their loved on. The vast majory of scientific studi that have directly pared lbian and gay parents wh heterosexual parents have nsistently shown that the same-sex upl are as f and pable parents as heterosexual upl, and that their children are jt as psychologilly healthy and well adjted. But they knew om the begng that their bond would be fed on their own terms, cludg what they ll “play” wh other the trial phase of the nstutnal battle to overturn the Proposn 8 ban on same-sex marriage nclus feral urt, gay nuptials are portrayed by opponents as an effort to rewre the tradnal l of matrimony.