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

Contents:

• THE SUPREME COURT WEDS GAY MARRIAGE TO FAY VALU
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• FOR ONE IRISH COUPLE, BACKG GAY MARRIAGE IS A MATTER OF FAY VALU
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• RELIGN, SECULARISM, AND GAY MARRIAGE
• SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
• FAY VALU: A CALL TO ADVOTE GAY MARRIAGE ON CHRISTMAS CARDS
• THE EFFECTS OF TRADNAL FAY VALU ON THE G OUT PROCS OF GAY MALE ADOLCENTS
• GAY MARRIAGE FACTS GAY MARRIAGE FACTS – 10 FACTS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

THE SUPREME COURT WEDS GAY MARRIAGE TO FAY VALU

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. 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.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

Hardwick me down 1986 and proclaimed that stat uld arrt gay people our hom for the crime of lovg each other (and that our claims to the ntrary were “at bt facet”). The gay petners seek the “profound mment” of marriage, and same-sex marriage is important precisely bee “marriage is a keystone of our social orr” that “safeguards children and fai.

It’s clear, though, that many ls flammatory nservativ who oppose gay marriage are worried about whether they’ll be able to teach their own tradns to their kids or ntue to n fah-based anizatns acrdg to, say, Catholic prcipl.

A few weeks ago, a Christian journalist I know nfid that he’s not on board wh gay marriage—not hard agast , but not for , eher—but that he won’t discs the subject at all wh his kids. 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. 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.

FOR ONE IRISH COUPLE, BACKG GAY MARRIAGE IS A MATTER OF FAY VALU

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.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

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.

"Consiratns Regardg Proposals to Give Legal Regnn to Unns Between Homosexual Persons" (CDF): nnot promote any form of civil regnn of same-sex unns, formally or materially.

Catholic sistence: one n uphold the digny of homosexual people while not upholdg their right-to-marry; no unjt discrimatn towards homosexuals is acceptable; they mt be treated wh rpect, and their rights fend.

RELIGN, SECULARISM, AND GAY MARRIAGE

Brighid and Paddy went populary of the vio appears to be one ditor of the unexpectedly robt public support for gay marriage that has ed many to predict that Ireland, a Catholic untry, will bee the first natn to legalize gay marriage by popular vote. Padraic WhyteProponents of same-sex marriage Ireland have promoted the e as pro-fay, and the vio attts to how full acceptance of gay marriage n support an entire fay.

A lol newspaper also published a story about them on s ont uple said the vio and s rponse had ed people their muny to talk much more openly about their own gay children or other son Padraic, who is the youngt of their five children and works as an English profsor at Try College Dubl, said the nversatns happeng around the vio on a lol level mirrored those happeng around the referendum and homosexualy natnally. 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.

SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

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.

FAY VALU: A CALL TO ADVOTE GAY MARRIAGE ON CHRISTMAS CARDS

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.

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.

THE EFFECTS OF TRADNAL FAY VALU ON THE G OUT PROCS OF GAY MALE ADOLCENTS

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. 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.

GAY MARRIAGE FACTS GAY MARRIAGE FACTS – 10 FACTS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

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. Contrary to the pro gay marriage argument that some different-sex upl nnot have children or don’t want them, even those s there is still the potential to produce children. 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.

Pla Ettelbrick, JD, Profsor of Law and Women’s Studi, wrote 1989, “Marriage ns ntrary to two of the primary goals of the lbian and gay movement: the affirmatn of gay inty and culture and the validatn of many forms of relatnships.

LGBT activist llective Agast Equaly stated, “Gay marriage ap hetero privilege… [and] creas enomic equaly by perpetuatg a system which ems married begs more worthy of the basics like health re and enomic rights.