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

Contents:

• HOW GAY MARRIAGE IMPACTS THE WELL-BEG OF CHILDREN
• KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
• WHAT COULD GAY MARRIAGE MEAN FOR THE KIDS?
• HOW DO CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS FEEL ABOUT GETTG MARRIED?
• KIDS' VOIC KEY ON BOTH SIS OF GAY-MARRIAGE DEBATE
• ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: MARRIAGE IS FOR PROCREATN
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE: WHO’S MDG THE CHILDREN?
• NEW POLICY ON GAY COUPL AND THEIR CHILDREN ROILS MORMON CHURCH
• GAY MARRIAGE, SAME-SEX PARENTG, AND AMERI'S CHILDREN

HOW GAY MARRIAGE IMPACTS THE WELL-BEG OF CHILDREN

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.

KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS

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. For the past four years, rearchers workg for the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics have nducted an extensive review of the evince on gay marriage, specifilly examg how impacts the health and well-beg of children.

The review also found evince that children raised by homosexual parents perform as well emotnally, gnively and socially as those raised by heterosexual parents. But lookg at the evince on an issue as polilly ntent as gay marriage is a wele change, and an important ntributn to future policy-makg.

The Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) reported on gay parentg, wh Loren Marks, associate profsor at the School of Human Elogy at Louisiana State Universy, statg that “Not a sgle study has found children of lbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged any signifint rpect relative to children of heterosexual parents” (Marks 2012). He found that adults raised by lbian mothers had negative out 24 of the 40 tegori, while adults raised by gay fathers had negative out 19 tegori. This study uld jt be a rult of chance, as the numbers of children wh homosexual parents were low, or other factors uld go to the negative rults of the 40 unknown “tegori” such as the stcture of the way the tegori are word or set up, which uld be due to Regnes’s own personal bias.

WHAT COULD GAY MARRIAGE MEAN FOR THE KIDS?

(CBS News) A new study that fds children of a gay or lbian parent may be more likely to have social and emotnal problems has sparked ntroversy on both sis of the same-sex marriage bate. In a jot statement om the Fay Equaly Council, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Freedom to Marry, and the Gay and Lbian Alliance agast Defamatn (GLAAD), advot lled the study a "flawed, misleadg, and scientifilly unsound paper that seeks to disparage lbian and gay parents. In a mentary Slate, William Saletan wr, "What the study shows, then, is that kids om broken hom head by gay people velop the same problems as kids om broken hom head by straight people.

Brad Pt and Angela Jolie are engaged, but won't go any further; the two have donated large sums of money to the effort, cludg $100, 000 to the Human Rights Campaign's marriage equaly the group of people wh perhaps the greatt potential to have mixed feelgs about marriage are the children of gay, lbian, and bisexual children. Th far, has been subject to ltle empiril rearch, but that is changg, and Abbie Goldberg, an associate profsor of psychology at Clark Universy, is at the foreont of this vtigatnIn the paper, "Will I Marry if My Parents Can't?, " Goldberg looked at a group directly affected by outlawg same-sex marriage: young adults wh lbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) parents.

HOW DO CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS FEEL ABOUT GETTG MARRIED?

Over the next two hours I'm sure we're gog to hear plenty of ttimony about how damagg havg gay parents is on kids, but my neteen years not once have I been nonted by an dividual who realized penntly that I was raised by a gay uple.

KIDS' VOIC KEY ON BOTH SIS OF GAY-MARRIAGE DEBATE

" The group filed an amic brief wh the Supreme Court highlightg the stori of people like him — the first generatn raised by openly gay and lbian parents. ” For example, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) stated 2005 that “not a sgle study has found children of lbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged any signifint rpect relative to children of heterosexual parents. ”[8] For example, a 2012 review of the 59 studi reported the 2005 APA brief on same-sex parentg “reveals a tenncy towards not only non-reprentative but racially homogeneo sampl.

”[9] Even studi of donor-semated (DI) parenthood “do not know the extent to which the paratively high socenomic stat of DI parents studied accurately reflects the mographics of lbian and gay parenthood generally. 953–971; and Loren Marks, “Same-Sex Parentg and Children’s Out: A Closer Examatn of the Amerin Psychologil Associatn’s Brief on Lbian and Gay Parentg, ” Social Science Rearch, Vol. 341–344; Norman Anrssen, Christe Amlie, and Erlg Andre Ytterøy, “Out for Children wh Lbian or Gay Parents: A Review of Studi om 1978 to 2000, ” Sndavian Journal of Psychology, Vol.

Reddg, “It’s Really About Sex: Same-Sex Marriage, Lbigay Parentg, and the Psychology of Disgt, ” De Journal of Genr Law & Policy, Vol. In the parisons, the study tak to nsiratn young adult children’s age, genr, race/ethnicy, mother’s tn level, perceived childhood hoehold e, experience beg bullied as a youth, and state’s legislative gay-iendls.

ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: MARRIAGE IS FOR PROCREATN

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.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

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.

GAY MARRIAGE

" "[If] homosexual sex wh marriage is wrong and heterosexual sex wh marriage is great, we're not treatg 'immoral nduct heterosexual or homosexual the same way, ' " as one person noted on Twter. The PoX got majorly walked back — which is FANTASTIC — although I’ll pot out that if homosexual sex wh marriage is wrong and heterosexual sex wh marriage is great, we’re not treatg “immoral nduct heterosexual or homosexual the same way” — jaclyn (@j_n_foster) April 4, 2019.

I believe & look forward to more wonrful surpris the futureI know there will e a pot my life when I will stand wh my fellow Sats & be able to say that I have not been nied any blsgs now or Eterny bee I am gay. Consir the assumptn that the “natural” end of marriage (or sex general) is procreatn, and that therefore non-procreative gay upl nnot reasonably be allowed to marry. It is cur that the opprobrium heaped upon gays who want to marry is not also directed at elrly people who want to marry, ditg that the problem nnot possibly stem om people’s disapproval of a uple that won’t be havg children.

GAY MARRIAGE: WHO’S MDG THE CHILDREN?

Whatever the reason, more gay upl are not childls — and if marriage, whether “nature” or as a legal stutn, exists to promote and protect both procreatn and the raisg of children, then why n’t do so for gay upl as well as straight upl?

Fally, is argued that the existence of gay marriag would nstute a secratn of a sacred stutn created by God for the purpose procreatn. This might be te if church that regard homosexualy as an abomatn were forced to perform and regnize same-sex marriag, but no one is suggtg this occur. Statistics suggt, however, that gays and lbians are not creasg number, if we accept the bt rearch data of Edward Lmann, who puts the number at about 5% of the populatn1.

NEW POLICY ON GAY COUPL AND THEIR CHILDREN ROILS MORMON CHURCH

What has grown is a much greater acceptance of gays and lbians our culture, as well as the social and enomic eedom for gays and lbians to emerge om the closet that has nfed them for so many generatns.

The recent addn of same sex mment ceremoni the Sunday New York Tim weddg and engagement announcements and the populary of shows as "Will and Grace" and "Queer Eye…" dite a shift our culture's attu toward gays and lbians. My tent was two-fold: first to ve stunts to dialogue wh people different om themselv; send, to work to elimate, whatever small way I uld, homophobic attus on our mp and our muny.

GAY MARRIAGE, SAME-SEX PARENTG, AND AMERI'S CHILDREN

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. A person is born gay and lbian and grows up this way; is not a matter of cisn, one possibily among others for the mature dividual.