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Contents:
- THE REAL IMPACT OF GAY MARRIAGE ON SOCIETY
- GROWG SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE: CHANGED MDS AND CHANGG DEMOGRAPHICS
- GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI
- WHAT IMPACT WILL GAY MARRIAGE REALLY HAVE ON AMERI?
THE REAL IMPACT OF GAY MARRIAGE ON SOCIETY
If gay marriage were legalized, would really be the end of marriage as we know ? * how does gay marriage affect the society *
WASHINGTON – Legalized gay marriage (search) may never e the transformatn of society that some have predicted, given that is likely to affect ls than one 100 U. C., "the realy is the impact on marriage numerilly is that gay upl will still make up a ty actn of married upl. ”Analysts e the 2000 Cens (search) to rive an official unt of the number of possible gay unns the Uned Stat -- 595, 000 hoeholds head by same-sex partners.
4 ln acrdg to the 2000 cens – analysts are torn over the impact legalized gay marriage will have on the way Amerins view the stutn and the way they look at Gallagher, -thor of “The Case for Marriage, ” recently ttified ont of the Senate that gay marriage activists are misreprentg the impact gay marriage will have. ”Gallagher claims that wh the legal onset of gay marriage, ernments will be the posn of forcg onto cizens a belief system that equat homosexualy wh heterosexualy — through public schools, taxpayer-fund programs like chari and non-profs, workplac and even fah-based anizatns (search) that receive public dollars. “It will be a new legal and social norm and the law is gog to enforce this new social and legal norm on people, ” she far, Massachetts is the only state nsirg legal gay marriage.
GROWG SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE: CHANGED MDS AND CHANGG DEMOGRAPHICS
Same-sex marriage is clearly a divisive issue the Uned Stat, wh passnate proponents on both sis. While most Amerins oppose legal regnn of same-sex marriag and the belief that they will harm society is relatively wispread, Amerins are personally divid on whether gay and lbian upl should have the same legal rights that married upl do. * how does gay marriage affect the society *
Its Supreme Judicial Court (search) led unnstutnal for the state to ny marriage licens to gay upl. The Legislature there is now batg whether to change s nstutn to ban such marriag but the licens are already beg distributed and a nstutnal amendment would not be ratified before the May date the urt set for allowg gay California and New York have fied their state laws and begun marryg gay upl.
Constutn that would fe marriage as between a man and a woman and protect stat om havg to regnize gay upl married stat that allow gay is a bate over whether the issue will land the lap of the U. Jonathan Rch, a wrer for the Natnal Journal (search) and thor of the upg “Gay Marriage: Why ’s Good for Gays, Good for Straights and Good for Ameri, ” said he don’t thk a nstutnal amendment is g, and believ that over the long-term, stat will expand marriage rights to homosexuals and the number of hold-outs will dwdle. “My personal view is gay marriage will have a signifintly posive effect on gay people, non-gay people and on marriage, ” he said.
GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI
* how does gay marriage affect the society *
“For gay upl, will brg the stabily and healths and happs that marriage uniquely provis. He pots to a of legalized gay unns Sndavia, where marriage rat have cled as the number of babi born to habatg has risen.
”Kurtz said he do not anticipate a future “patchwork” of state laws which some will be gay marriage-iendly while others will not regnize the unns. ”Rch balked at this ia, potg out that the natns of Sndavia do not regnize gay marriage, jt civil partnerships. That is why the argument for gay marriage works — will enurage marriage and hold up as a “gold standard for stable relatnships.
WHAT IMPACT WILL GAY MARRIAGE REALLY HAVE ON AMERI?
”“I thk Kurtz’s argument is exhib A for why nservativ should sist on gay marriage and not a substute, ” he said.
“What I thk is irratnal is the notn that [gay marriage] will surely fail and all the effects will be negative so we shouldn’t try at all. Like heterosexuals, many lbian, gay, and bisexual people want to form stable, long-lastg relatnships and many of them do.