Homosexualy is immoral and unnatural, and, therefore, same sex marriage is immoral and unnatural. - Gay Marriage

Contents:

• LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE THK GAY SEX IS IMMORAL
• GAY MARRIAGE IS IMMORAL, VATIN SAYS
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• 31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)
• ARCHBISHOP OF YORK SAYS GAY SEX IS OK IF ‘MTED, STABLE, FAHFUL RELATNSHIPS'

LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE THK GAY SEX IS IMMORAL

Matt Barber, Associate Dean for Onle Programs at Liberty Universy School of Law, stated, “Every dividual engaged the homosexual liftyle, who has adopted a homosexual inty, they know, tuively, that what they’re dog is immoral, unnatural, and self-stctive, yet they thirst for that affirmatn. A 2003 set of guil signed by Pope John Pl II stated: “There are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God’s plan for marriage and fay… Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go agast the natural moral law. Between 14 and 17 percent of Millennials who are no longer relig say that attus toward LGBTQ issu had a very or somewhat important effect on their cisn to qu gog to church or most pellg evince to support the age argument is this: Nearly 70 percent of Millennials support same-sex marriage, but only 56 percent thk gay sex is morally acceptable.

The twenty- and thirtysomethgs who grew up wh Will and Grace and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy have e of polil age, and as gay marriage hs more and more ballot box and urtrooms the g months, this generatn will have a strong fluence over who liv happily ever after.

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.” [105]. 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.” [47]. 8 California banng gay marriage was “unnstutnal unr both the Due Procs and Equal Protectn Cls.” [41] The Due Procs Clse both the Fifth and 14th Amendments of the US Constutn stat that no person shall be “prived of life, liberty, or property, whout due procs of law.” [111] The Equal Protectn Clse the 14th Amendment stat that no state shall “ny to any person wh s jurisdictn the equal protectn of the laws.” [112].

GAY MARRIAGE IS IMMORAL, VATIN SAYS

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.” [157]. Court papers filed July 2014 by attorneys fendg Arizona’s gay marriage ban stated that “the State regulat marriage for the primary purpose of channelg potentially procreative sexual relatnships to endurg unns for the sake of jog children to both their mother and their father… Same-sex upl n never provi a child wh both her blogil mother and her blogil father.” [98]. Lee Badgett, PhD, Director of the Center for Public Policy and Admistratn at the Universy of Massachetts at Amherst, stated that for many gay activists “marriage means adoptg heterosexual forms of fay and givg up distctively gay fay forms and perhaps even gay and lbian culture.” [14].

Queer activist Anrs Zanichkowsky stated June 2013 that the then mpaign for gay marriage “tentnally and malicly eras and exclus so many queer people and cultur, particularly trans and genr non-nformg people, poor queer people, and queer people non-tradnal fai… marriage thks non-married people are viant and not tly servg of civil rights.” [127]. Matt Barber, Associate Dean for Onle Programs at Liberty Universy School of Law, stated, “Every dividual engaged the homosexual liftyle, who has adopted a homosexual inty, they know, tuively, that what they’re dog is immoral, unnatural, and self-stctive, yet they thirst for that affirmatn.” [149]. A 2003 set of guil signed by Pope John Pl II stated: “There are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God’s plan for marriage and fay… Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go agast the natural moral law.” [147].

ROME — The Vatin on Thursday vigoroly nmned gay marriage and urged lawmakers around the world -- Catholic and non-Catholic alike -- to fend the “mon good” of society by fightg the legalizatn of same-sex to halt what se as an alarmg trend, the Vatin sgled out policians to jo the stggle to prerve tradnal marriag between men and women and the “sancty” of the fay. Homosexual relatnships are immoral and viant, and only tradnal marriag n fulfill God’s plan for the reproductn of the human race, the Vatin said a 12-page set of guil signed by Pope John Pl document was drafted earlier this year by the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah -- the body that polic adherence to relig l and philosophy -- and released Thursday as a unter to the spread of legal regnn of gay marriage Europe and Canada and mov to w regnn the Uned and lbian anizatns rpond angrily to the Vatin’s posn.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

In Europe, the Netherlands and Belgium regnize gay marriage, several more acknowledge civil unns wh basic rights, and Bra is nsirg siar Vatin said Thursday that Catholic policians, pecially, are obliged by moral duty to vote agast bills that grant stat to homosexual unns and to lobby publicly agast such polil lears regardls of their relign who are “mted to promotg and fendg the mon good of society” should follow su, add. “Legal regnn of homosexual unns, or placg them on the same level as marriage, would mean not only the approval of viant behavr, wh the nsequence of makg a mol prent-day society, but would also obscure basic valu which belong to the mon herance of humany, ” the document said.

My purpose today is not to support or fend gay and lbian marriag—ed, many gays and lbians do not want to marry—but simply suggt a theologil approach that might open up the possibily for greater Christian acceptance of, and eccliastil approval for, same sex unns. 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. 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.

31 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE (AND WHY THEY’RE ALL WRONG)

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 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.

The Misdirected Zeal of Same-Sex Marriage ConvertsIt is immoral to discrimate agast gays—and irratnal to make a relig eedom law Indiana the foc of the gay-rights biggt afont to gay equaly Ameri today is the fact that same-sex upl 13 stat are still prevented om marryg.

ARCHBISHOP OF YORK SAYS GAY SEX IS OK IF ‘MTED, STABLE, FAHFUL RELATNSHIPS'

Remend ReadgBeg barred om marriage puts a signifint burn on gay upl—a burn many orrs of magnu greater than the relatively small possibily of beg refed by an atypilly relig photographer or baker the urse of planng a same-sex weddg (the oute the law's opponents assert to be s te purpose). Then there's this:NASCAR said a statement Tuday that was "disappoted" by the legislatn, and the NCAA, which has had s headquarters Indianapolis sce 1999, says is ncerned about the law's effect on future Indiana hosts events at tracks the followg stat where gay marriage is illegal: Kentucky, Michigan, and Texas. Clton's 2013 explanatn may help many Democrats support her bid for the princy enthiastilly, even as they prume that people who haven't yet evolved on the issue—many of whom haven't benefed om personally knowg as many gay people, been nstantly surround by smopolans, reprented our natn on a world stage, seen the nnectn to global human rights, or been guid by the same progrsive spirual lears—to be spible bigots.

I neverthels see somethg unjt that the thick of the fight, when speakg out on behalf of gay marriage uld've make a signifint difference advancg equaly, celebri weren't willg to boytt populatns on the wrong si of the issue, puttg them crosswise of a majory of their fans and their wallets. Hillary Clton, Barack Obama, John Kerry, John Edwards, and many other Democratic polil el echoed majory opposn to equal regnn for same-sex relatnships (though their Republin opponents were generally much worse) that public opn has thankfully shifted, marriage tradnalists have thankfully been routed, gay marriage all 50 stat is thankfully evable, and s opponents are a wang mory pable of imposg any st on polil opponents, el who support gay marriage are sudnly very self-righteo and assertive.