(RNS) — Why do the nflicts — over same-sex marriage, transgenr people and the ordatn of openly gay people — keep poppg up Christiany?
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE
- TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
- WHY SCOTUS HEARG GAY MARRIAGE S IS SUCH A BIG AL
- WHY THE BATTLE FOR GAY MARRIAGE WAS WON SO EASILY
GAY MARRIAGE
* why is gay marriage such a big deal *
From strikg down a Texas law that crimalised "sodomy" to legalisg gay marriage across the natn, the directn of US jurispnce seemed was before Jtice Anthony Kennedy, the thor of several of those landmark cisns, retired and Donald Tmp, wh two appotments, gave the urt a cidly more nservative bent.
There was some ncern among LGBT advot that the newly posed urt would e this year's two high-profile gay and transgenr rights s to take the natn a different ncerns proved unfound. While the urt is tablishg a long history of cisns expandg gay rights, this is the first time spoke directly about the legal protectns for transgenr dividuals. The fai and iends of lbian and gay upl who are nied marriage rights may also experience negative physil and mental health nsequenc siar to those experienced by their loved on.
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 is gay marriage such a big deal *
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.
For stance, 45% of adults the Silent Generatn (those born between 1928 and 1945) favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, pared wh 74% of Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996).
WHY SCOTUS HEARG GAY MARRIAGE S IS SUCH A BIG AL
4As wh the general public, Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) are most likely to ce love as a very important reason for gettg married. Sce then, several other European untri – cludg England and Wal, France, Ireland, all of Sndavia, Spa and, most recently, Atria, Germany and Malta – have legalized gay marriage.
WHY THE BATTLE FOR GAY MARRIAGE WAS WON SO EASILY
(RNS) — If the wily teemed Eugene Peterson were still pastorg today and a gay uple his church who were “Christians of good fah” asked him to pri at their weddg, would he do ? Matthew V, thor of “God and the Gay Christian” and foundg executive director of The Reformatn Project, agre that for nservative Christians there never has been a middle ground on LGBT cln.