Should Gay Marriage Be Legal? 6 Pros and Cons

Contents:

• ISSUE REPORT: CIVIL UNNS VS. GAY MARRIAGE
• WHY NOT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?
• GAY MARRIAGE – WHY CIVIL UNNS ARE NOT ENOUGH
• SHOULD CIVIL UNNS BE EXPAND TO PROTECT TRADNAL MARRIAGE?GAY MARRIAGE VS CIVIL UNN DEBATEDANTE R.A.·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ILLUMINATION·4 M READ·JUL 10--SHAREPHOTO BY TRY KUBASSEK: I WANT TO PREFACE THIS BY SAYG I AM A BISEXUAL MALE. SO I GET A LTLE B OF SAY THIS DISCSN. I WAS ALSO LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE BROUGHT UP A FAY SUATN THAT IS PRETTY ACCEPTG.THE ONLY THGS THAT I WASN’T ACCEPTED FOR WERE POLIL OPNS. I TEND TO LEAN A B NSERVATIVE/LIBERTARIAN ON SPECIFIC ISSU. ONE OF THE BIGGT BAT BETWEEN THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT IS PROTECTN OVER MARRIAGE.THE LIBERTARIANS AND THE LEFT THK THAT IF TWO PEOPLE LOVE EACH OTHER, THEY SHOULD BE MARRIED. THE RIGHT THKS THAT MARRIAGE IS A TRADNAL CEREMONY MEANT FOR TWO DIVIDUALS TO REPRODUCE. THERE IS A LOT MORE TO THE NSERVATIVE ARGUMENT IF YOU ARE REASONABLE ENOUGH TO LISTEN TO . AND THEIR NCERNS ARE VALID WHEN YOU NSIR THEIR WORLDVIEW. HOWEVER, I DON’T THK 'S REASONABLE TO GIVE CERTA BENEFS TO STRAIGHT PEOPLE THROUGH MARRIAGE, BUT NOT GAY PEOPLE. IF ONLY THERE WAS ANOTHER THG SIAR TO MARRIAGE THAT NON-HETEROSEXUALS ULD E THAT WOULD STILL RPECT THE RIGHTS OF RELIG FOLKS. THERE IS, BUT 'S NOT PERFECT.CIVIL UNNS AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MARRIAGE.
• DISTGUISHG GAY MARRIAGE OM CIVIL UNN
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• REVISG GAY MARRIAGE VS. CIVIL UNNS
• DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CIVIL UNN AND GAY MARRIAGE
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

ISSUE REPORT: CIVIL UNNS VS. GAY MARRIAGE

In the name of the “fay, ” same-sex “marriage” serv to validate not only such unns but the whole homosexual liftyle all s bisexual and transgenr variants. 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.

Genis also teach how God punished Sodom and Gomorrah for the s of homosexualy: “The Lord raed down sulphuro fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah. 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. We pray also for the judg, legislators and ernment officials who one way or another take steps that favor homosexualy and same-sex “marriage.

To the arguments favor of homosexualy and same-sex “marriage” we rpond wh arguments based on right reason, natural law and Dive Revelatn. Is “marriage” an important term/symbol that mt be protected, or, nversely, is so important and socially meangful that nnot be fairly nied to gays? ”[2]Civil unns are precisely the same arrangement, attemptg to give gays a “separate” arrangement than marriage, while nferrg “equal” benefs.

WHY NOT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?

Clearly, therefore, allowg straights to participate civil unns while ntug to ny gays the right to marry do not nullify the argument that civil unns are ak to “separate but equal” and actually unequal. While many argue that civil unns sometim prive upl of certa rights given to those gay marriag, many existg laws and many proposals and legislatn on the table would see every sgle right given to married upl also given to upl wh civil unns. G., hospal visatn), is almost evable that as legislators and the public bee fortable wh gay upl formalized relatnships, they will feel more fortable addg addnal benefs over time.

“A missn tablished to study same-sex civil unns New Jersey has found s first report that civil unns create a ‘send-class stat’ for gay upl, rather than givg them equaly. […] [the report] fd[s] that gay upl Massachetts, the only state that now allows same-sex marriage, do not experience some of the legal plitns that those New Jersey do [where there are civil unns].

In the se of gay marriage, a srched-earth bate, ptg what some regard as nonnegotiable relig eedom agast what others regard as a nonnegotiable human right, would do great harm to our civil society. If you lculate that gay men and women amount to about three percent of the populatn, ’s likely they will make up perhaps one or two percent of all future civil marriag.

GAY MARRIAGE – WHY CIVIL UNNS ARE NOT ENOUGH

The obv answer is that sce homosexuals are herently praved and immoral [acrdg to opponents], allowg them to marry would evably spoil, even fame, the stutn of marriage.

“Even if you nce that gay men–beg men–are, the aggregate, ls likely to live up to the standards of monogamy and mment that marriage mands, this still suggts a further qutn: Are they ls likely than, say, an sane person? Let’s discs the special rights that empty-nt and childls straight upl currently enjoy and serly exame what happens if we extend the rights to gay upl wh children. If the tabl were turned, very few heterosexuals would untenance beg told that they uld enter only civil unns and that marriage is rerved for lbian and gay upl.

SHOULD CIVIL UNNS BE EXPAND TO PROTECT TRADNAL MARRIAGE?GAY MARRIAGE VS CIVIL UNN DEBATEDANTE R.A.·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ILLUMINATION·4 M READ·JUL 10--SHAREPHOTO BY TRY KUBASSEK: I WANT TO PREFACE THIS BY SAYG I AM A BISEXUAL MALE. SO I GET A LTLE B OF SAY THIS DISCSN. I WAS ALSO LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE BROUGHT UP A FAY SUATN THAT IS PRETTY ACCEPTG.THE ONLY THGS THAT I WASN’T ACCEPTED FOR WERE POLIL OPNS. I TEND TO LEAN A B NSERVATIVE/LIBERTARIAN ON SPECIFIC ISSU. ONE OF THE BIGGT BAT BETWEEN THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT IS PROTECTN OVER MARRIAGE.THE LIBERTARIANS AND THE LEFT THK THAT IF TWO PEOPLE LOVE EACH OTHER, THEY SHOULD BE MARRIED. THE RIGHT THKS THAT MARRIAGE IS A TRADNAL CEREMONY MEANT FOR TWO DIVIDUALS TO REPRODUCE. THERE IS A LOT MORE TO THE NSERVATIVE ARGUMENT IF YOU ARE REASONABLE ENOUGH TO LISTEN TO . AND THEIR NCERNS ARE VALID WHEN YOU NSIR THEIR WORLDVIEW. HOWEVER, I DON’T THK 'S REASONABLE TO GIVE CERTA BENEFS TO STRAIGHT PEOPLE THROUGH MARRIAGE, BUT NOT GAY PEOPLE. IF ONLY THERE WAS ANOTHER THG SIAR TO MARRIAGE THAT NON-HETEROSEXUALS ULD E THAT WOULD STILL RPECT THE RIGHTS OF RELIG FOLKS. THERE IS, BUT 'S NOT PERFECT.CIVIL UNNS AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MARRIAGE.

For bisexual, gay, lbian, and trans dividuals, registered civil unns offered an opportuny for them to get to a socially-regnized relatnship and receive the same legal benefs as heterosexual married upl. LattSearchSearchLove Letter: Supreme Court Backs Digner Opposed to Same-Sex MarriagePl: a rerd number of transgenr laws, Larry Kramer’s memorial, Vows and Morn ground has shifted on gay marriage for nservative a foc of the natn’s culture wars, the issue has taken a back seat to genr Ruth GrahamSupreme Court Backs Web Digner Opposed to Same-Sex MarriageThe jtic settled a qutn left open 2018: whether bs open to the public and engaged exprsn may refe to serve ctomers based on relig Abbie VanSickle and Adam LiptakIndia’s Top Court Begs Hearg Same-Sex Marriage CaseThe Supreme Court recent years has stck down a ban on nsensual gay sex. A lg favor of legalizg gay unns would make India an outlier Karan Deep SghChurch of England Will Bls Same-Sex Coupl, but Won’t Marry ThemThe policy shift after six years of nsultatns on the issue wh the church, which also apologized for s treatment of L.

Check back for a new documentary that premiered Rome yterday, Pope Francis appeared to endorse civil unns for same-sex upl for the first time as portrayed the documentary, the pope says: “Homosexual people have the right to be a fay. In fact, Pope Francis’ support of civil unns dat back to his days as archbishop of Buenos Air, when he proposed civil unns as an alternative to gay marriage, a posn he has reerated as recently as the pope mistranslated?

”No one remembered, however, bee that part of the clip had never McElwee of the Natnal Catholic Reporter pared the clips si by si and found that the pope’s quote about how gay people “have a right to be part of the fay” was clud Mr.

DISTGUISHG GAY MARRIAGE OM CIVIL UNN

Alazraki’s terview, repeatg that they have a right to a fay but “that do not mean approvg of homosexual acts, not the least, ” was next le Mr. The official ed do clu his ments on the need for gay people to feel they are part of a fay, as he has said Alazraki told the Natnal Catholic Reporter on Oct. It said the ments on gay civil unns were taken out of ntext a documentary that spliced together parts of an old terview but nfirmed Francis’ belief that gay upl should enjoy legal protectns.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

Most pot to a 2003 document om the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah statg that “rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavur or to legal regnn of homosexual unns.

”That document lled policians’ support of same-sex unns “gravely immoral” and said that “Legal regnn of homosexual unns or placg them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of viant behavur, wh the nsequence of makg a mol prent-day society, but would also obscure basic valu which belong to the mon herance of humany. Cardal William Levada, who succeed Cardal Ratzger as head of the Congregatn of the Doctre of the Fah, termed 1997 as archbishop of San Francis that, rponse to the cy’s legalizatn of gay marriage, he would extend health re benefs to one other person livg wh any of his archdce’s employe, regardls of their relatnship. That way, gay upl were vered, as were, for example, two unmarried siblgs livg, the pope has not changed church teachg, but he has certaly changed the pastoral tone wh which the church approach L.

REVISG GAY MARRIAGE VS. CIVIL UNNS

Catholics yterday, cludg the advocy groups Digny and New Ways Mistry, who celebrated the statement on civil unns but were unr no illns that the church had changed s teachg on gay else has Pope Francis said on L. Children that God lov their children and his reported statement to Juan Carlos Cz, a gay man who is a survivor of sexual abe, that God ma him the new documentary, the pope’s words are paired wh the story of Andrea Rubera, a gay man who adopted three children wh his partner.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CIVIL UNN AND GAY MARRIAGE

”The pope’s “endorsement of civil unns is not an endorsement of homosexual activy, ” the rdal said, while also notg that Francis is “very aware of the sufferg and alienatn of homosexual dividuals, gay people, who are rejected by fay and society.

Acrdg to a report by the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics, "A growg body of scientific lerature monstrat that children who grow up wh 1 or 2 gay and/or lbian parents fare as well emotnal, gnive, social, and sexual functng as do children whose parents are heterosexual. Acrdg to the prs release for the issue, "Amendments that rtrict civil marriage rights of same-sex upl — such as Proposn 8 that recently passed California — have led to higher levels of strs and anxiety among lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr adults, as well as among their fai of orig, acrdg to several new studi to be published by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Sharon Sl Rostosky, at the Universy of Kentucky, "The rults of this study monstrate that livg a state that has jt passed a marriage amendment is associated wh higher levels of psychologil strs for lbian, gay and bisexual cizens, " Rostosky said.