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Contents:
- A CONSERVATIVE VIEW OF GAY RIGHTS
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
- THE NSERVATIVE SE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
A CONSERVATIVE VIEW OF GAY RIGHTS
A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga? * conservative views on gay rights *
When viewed through the lens of other right wg beliefs, however, be creasgly unclear as to why the barriers between nservative iologi and gay rights even exist the first place. Why, then, should nservativ support the rtrictn of gay rights? Another argument is that homosexual relatnships go agast Ameri’s tradnal view of the “fay.
And when pared to other ias held by the right, I thk that equaly for the gay muny fs the bill perfectly.
If you’re gay, be gay. The law imposed strict crimal penalti for same-sex relatns — cludg executn for “serial offenrs” who m “aggravated homosexualy.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
When liberals won the culture war over gay rights. Nowhere was this trend clearer than on gay rights, where the thors found “by far the most pronounced opn change we observe the data. “In only two s, more than a third of the populatn has changed s posn on gay rights: the approval of gays’ right to adopt children rose by 48.
“Gay marriage support grew om 12. Notably, the Republin shift on gay rights took off durg arguably the most tense recent perd of partisan nflict on the issue: the stggle over same-sex marriage the Gee W. As the overall cultural environment beme more liberal thanks to s of LGBTQ activism, gays and lbians around the untry felt more fortable g out of the closet.
The rult is that more Republins had personal ntact wh gay people, which turn ma them more sympathetic to LGBTQ equaly. “At least recent years, both Republins and Democrats have siar probabili of knowg someone their close social circl who is gay or lbian, ” they wre. Around the same time, some on the right even flirted wh tryg to build a kd of pro-gay nservatism ak to certa European far-right movements.
THE NSERVATIVE SE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
The New York Tim’s Maggie Haberman clared that “ is his views on gay rights and gay people that most distguish Mr. The language of relig eedom has been muted, and pro-gay nservatism feels like (at bt) a distant dream. In 2022, the journal Public Opn Quarterly published an analysis by five scholars examg data on trans people and trans issu the same way that Baldassarri and Park studied gay issu.