It's hard to overstate jt how upset relig nservativ are about gay marriage. Gary Ber's e-mail newsletter about the Massachetts Supreme...
Contents:
- THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
- TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
- WHY NOT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?
- GAY MARRIAGE
- 31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)
- GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
* why are people against gay marriage *
A new poll om the Pew Fom on Relign & Public Life found, not surprisgly, that opposn to gay marriage and homosexualy is hight among the most relig. Poignantly, homosexualy would seem to be the one topic that un the lears of the world’s fahs—an issue over which Frankl Graham and Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamed uld break bread.
The most fashnable argument agast is that unrm the stutn of marriage (and therefore fay and therefore society), but I n’t help but thk this is a poll-tted ia that don’t really get at the te feelgs of the advot; the Pew poll, few people opposg the notn of gay marriage offered that up as the ma reason. Most said, stead, that gay marriage and homosexualy were herently “wrong” or vlated their relig beliefs.
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
Proponents ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, opponents ague that marriage is primarily for procreatn. * why are people against gay marriage *
The world’s sacred texts are silent on the qutn of gay marriage, as was not really an issue when they were wrten. Though there are differenc the views of different fahs, nservative Prottants, the Catholic Church, Mormons, tradnal Jews, and Mlims share two fundamental antigay arguments. Christian Bible scholar Ben Whergton explas the views of the apostle Pl this way: “For Pl, not unlike other early Jewish wrers, homosexual behavr is perhaps the cleart example of how floutg sexual distctns is ultimately a rejectn of the Creator, who ma such distctns.
TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry. * why are people against gay marriage *
But Whergton, a nservative scholar, go on to pot out that all sorts of ss volve the implic rejectn of God or His mandments and that homosexualy is on par wh vetons, malice, envy, murr, slanr, solence, rebelln agast parents, thlsns, ce, pri, and the like—not one sted to stroy society. In other words, many of the world’s fahs do argue agast homosexualy, but they don’t raise to the level of moral lamy: It’s bad but not that bad.
Privately, relig nservativ are appalled and grossed out by homosexualy but realize that the more mon Amerin view is modulated.
On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court led that gay marriage is a right protected by the US Constutn all 50 stat. 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. Proponents of legal gay marriage ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, and that same-sex upl should have accs to all the benefs enjoyed by different-sex upl.
WHY NOT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?
This article claims that three mon arguments agast gay marriage - the fnal, procreatn, and slippery-slope arguments - are que bad, the worst of the lot. The fnal argument asserts that marriage jt is the unn of one man and one woman, and that the fn alone is a sufficient fense agast claims for gay marriage. The procreatn argument claims that marriage's central public purpose is to enurage procreatn, and so the excln of same-sex upl is jtified. The slippery-slope argument claims that the acceptance of same-sex marriage logilly entails the acceptance of other public policy chang - notably the acceptance of polygamy - that would themselv be bad, pennt of whether gay marriage is bad. While each argument has some appeal, and each has adherents both si and outsi the legal amy, each is badly flawed as a matter of logic, experience, polics, or some batn of the three. The article suggts that the tert of focg on the most important ncerns about gay marriage, mentators should move on to other arguments agast that seem stronger and th better tt the affirmative se for gay marriage. * why are people against gay marriage *
On July 25, 2014 Miami-Da County Circu Court Judge Sarah Zabel led Florida’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal and stated that the ban “serv only to hurt, to discrimate, to prive same-sex upl and their fai of equal digny, to label and treat them as send-class cizens, and to em them unworthy of participatn one of the fundamental stutns of our society.
The Amerin Psychologil Associatn, Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and others nclud that legal gay marriage giv upl “accs to the social support that already facilat and strengthens heterosexual marriag, wh all of the psychologil and physil health benefs associated wh that support. A study found that same-sex married upl were “signifintly ls distrsed than lbian, gay, and bisexual persons not a legally regnized relatnship.
A 2010 analysis found that after their stat had banned gay marriage, gay, lbian and bisexual people suffered a 37% crease mood disorrs, a 42% crease alhol-e disorrs, and a 248% crease generalized anxiety disorrs.
GAY MARRIAGE
The Congrsnal Budget Office timated 2004 that ferally-regnized gay marriage would cut the budget fic by around $450 ln a year.
In July 2012 New York Cy Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that gay marriage had ntributed $259 ln to the cy’s enomy jt a year sce the practice beme legal there July 2011. In 2012, the Williams Instute at the Universy of California at Los Angel (UCLA) found that the first five years after Massachetts legalized gay marriage 2004, same-sex weddg expendur (such as venue rental, weddg k, etc.
Relig stutns n cle to marry gay and lbian upl if they wish, but they should not dictate marriage laws for society at large.
31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)
Gay marriage is a civil right protected by the US Constutn’s mments to liberty and equaly, and is an ternatnally regnized human right for all people.
GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
Civil unns and domtic partnerships uld provi the protectns and benefs gay upl need whout changg the fn of marriage.
2016 printial ndidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fra stated that civil unns are aquate as an equivalent to marriage: “Benefs are beg btowed to gay upl [ civil unns]… I believe we need to rpect those who believe that the word marriage has a spirual foundatn… Why n’t we rpect and tolerate that while at the same time sayg ernment nnot btow benefs unequally.