Opposn to Gay Marriage Equat to “Anti-Gay”?

Contents:

• THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW
• GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
• POLL: MOST OPPOSE GAY WEDDGS
• OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE EQUAT TO “ANTI-GAY”?
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• IN GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE, BOTH SUPPORTERS AND OPPONENTS SEE LEGAL REGNN AS ’INEVABLE’
• GAY MARRIAGE, THEN GROUP MARRIAGE?
• GAYS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• PUBLIC OPN ON GAY MARRIAGE: OPPONENTS CONSISTENTLY OUTNUMBER SUPPORTERS

THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW

Sometim the bate on gay marriage has been polarised, stg those who supported the measure as the right-thkg and those who opposed as irratnal and guilty of tac homophobia. The law to allow gay marriage passed quickly and there are those who still feel they have not had a proper chance to air their ncerns. The relig scepticThere are relig people who oppose gay marriage primarily out of a fear that one day equaly laws will force a church, mosque or temple to host a ceremony.

As an atheist gay who regards marriage as part of the baggage of heterosexual society which I have e to rpect but n never fully share, I am tempted to say a plague on both your ho, " he wrote the Daily Telegraph source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The historian David Starkey: "I'm torn on gay marriage"Actor Rupert Everett perhaps gave the most lourful argument agast, a 2012 terview the Guardian.

GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

It's jt a waste of time the heterosexual world, and the homosexual world I fd personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this stutn that is so clearly a disaster. "Society gave legal and stutnal exprsn to what many hold to be te - that gay and lbian people should have the same rights to formalise their mment to each other and enjoy the social and legal benefs that oppose-sex upl have, " said the Lord Bishop of Exeter to the Hoe of Lords 2013.

But he unters that he's favour of the gay marriage law bee is a necsary symbolic and cultural step towards full equaly. 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. Homosexual activists argue that same-sex “marriage” is a civil rights issue siar to the stggle for racial equaly the 1960s.

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?

POLL: MOST OPPOSE GAY WEDDGS

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.

OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE EQUAT TO “ANTI-GAY”?

As practicg Catholics, we are filled wh passn and pray for those who stggle agast unrelentg and vlent temptatn to homosexual s. 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.

Dpe an improvg legal landspe for sexual mori, negative attus toward gay men and lbian women persist North Ameri, and same-sex marriage remas a topic of nsirable bate (Waters, Jdasurat, & Wolfe, 2016).

Pope Benedict XVI nsired same-sex marriage to be among “the most sid and dangero threats to the mon good today” (Wfield, 2010) and homosexualy an “herent moral evil” (Popham, 2005). Although the current Pope, Francis, holds a somewhat more welg attu toward sexual mori, he has done ltle to undo the Catholic Church’s official nmnatn of same-sex marriage (Wofford, 2014) as some relig groups played a key role the civil rights movement, there are nomatns that now support full legal and relig marriage equaly for gay and lbian upl. Furthermore, those who opposed legalizatn of same-sex marriage were pecially likely to jtify their posn on the basis of relig belief or terpretatns of the Bible (Newport, 2012) feral legalizatn of same-sex marriage beme creasgly probable the Uned Stat, the bate on lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights shifted om a foc on discrimatn by the ernment to discrimatn by the private sector (Johnson, 2015), wh relig arguments domatg the rhetoric of those opposg same-sex marriage.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

An ial aim of this rearch program was to vtigate whether a general aversn to gay men and lbian women helps expla the relatnship between religsy and opposn to same-sex marriage. Blenner (2015) monstrated that experimentally heighteng preferenc to mata the stat quo (through a system jtifitn manipulatn) worsened participants’ views of lbians and gay men. Iologil self-placement on a sgle left–right dimensn is rrelated wh prejudice toward nonnormative groups, such as gay men and lbian women (e.

2Materials For more rmatn ncerng the materials and procr for all studi clud this article, nsult our project page on the Open Science Framework: Participants were asked to dite their religsy on a sle rangg om 1 (not at all relig) to 7 (extremely relig) prejudice Participants’ explic attus were measured g ems om the Attus Toward Gay Men subsle (ATGM; Herek, 1994).

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Sample ems clud “Homosexual behavr between two men is jt pla wrong” and “Jt as other speci, male homosexualy is a natural exprsn of sexualy human men” (reverse d; α=. Opposn to same-sex marriage Participants’ attus toward same-sex marriage were measured terms of support for the feral policy issue “gay marriage” (1 = very negative, 7 = very posive; reverse sred), which was embedd wh a list of 10 ntroversial polici orr to disguise the tent of the measure.

We also admistered a more general measure of sexual prejudice (rather than aversn to gay men particular) and examed self-reported willgns to prott agast same-sex marriage. Sample ems, which were word more broadly than the origal sle, clud the followg: “Homosexual behavr between two people is jt pla wrong” and “Jt as other speci, homosexualy is a natural exprsn of sexualy humans” (reverse sred). Three were opposg actns: “Donate to an anizatn that oppos givg homosexuals more rights, ” “Sign a petn agast gay marriage, ” and “Send a letter to the ernment opposg gay marriage.

” Two were supportive actns: “Ask other people to support a petn favor of gay marriage” and “Jo a prott supportg more rights for homosexuals. ” (1 = not at all relig, 7 = extremely relig) prejudice We admistered the Attus Toward Lbians and Gays (ATLG; Herek, 1998) sle, a generalized measure of sexual prejudice that clus 20 ems (1 = strongly disagree, 9 = strongly agree). Sample ems are “Female homosexualy is an ferr form of sexualy, ” “Female homosexualy self is no problem, but what society mak of n be a problem” (reverse d), “Lbians are sick, ” and “Male homosexualy is a perversn” (α=.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

General DiscsnIn light of current bat regardg the expansn of gay rights several untri, cludg the Uned Stat, France, Ireland, Rsia, and Atralia, this rearch prents a timely vtigatn to the motivatnal unrpngs of relig opposn to same-sex five studi nducted two untri, we obtaed support for a theoretil mol which relig opposn to same-sex marriage is lked to sexual prejudice and nservative preferenc to mata the stat quo. Attus toward same-sex marriage, and gay rights general, may pose a psychologil nflict for those who are trsilly relig: Should they follow relig teachgs or love and accept all human begs?

IN GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE, BOTH SUPPORTERS AND OPPONENTS SEE LEGAL REGNN AS ’INEVABLE’

Given the observed role of ristance to change explag opposn to same-sex marriage, legalizg same-sex marriage may brg about creased public support for gay rights over time. Our work—and the theoretil amework that spired our rearch—suggts that terventns aimed at rcg antigay prejudice would do well to foc on (a) creasg people’s fort wh viatns om heteronormative romantic arrangements, (b) emphasizg the egalarian aspect of relign, and (c) unrcuttg arguments that morn nceptns of marriage have been variant throughout human this article, we have foced on same-sex marriage, which is but one issue the stggle for sexual equaly. Excludg people om such benefs based on sexual orientatn has negative nsequenc for the mental and physil health of gay men and lbians (Frost, Lehavot, & Meyer, 2015; Herdt & Kertzer, 2006; Mays & Cochran, 2001; Meyer, 1995; Rorick, McCammon, Long, & Allred, 1998) as well as their terpersonal relatnships (Meyer, 2003).

For all of the reasons, elucidatg the social and psychologil procs that shape prejudicial attus and behavrs toward gay men and lbian women is cril for rmg theory and practice aimed at enhancg dividual and llective well-beg as well as the efforts of advocy groups to promote social jtice. Bee sr on the Attus Toward Lbians (ATL) and Attus Toward Gay Men (ATGM) subsl were highly terrrelated, we ed their average the mol. I do but I n’t: The impact of marriage nial on the mental health and sexual cizenship of lbians and gay men the Uned Stat.

GAY MARRIAGE, THEN GROUP MARRIAGE?

The multiln-dollar war cht has bolstered a movement that jt a few years ago appeared to be losg ground Ameri’s slong culture war around lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights. “Many of those, while not specifilly tied to a church, are rooted the nservative Christian, biblil sense of human sexualy, ” said Stt McCoy, the terim puty legal director for LGBTQ rights and special ligatn for the SPLC and the SPLC Actn Fund, the group’s polil actn simply holdg a relig belief that views homosexualy or transgenr inty as sful do not tomatilly land a church or an anizatn on the SPLC’s list of hate groups. 'The hard re of the anti-gay movement' When the SPLC began trackg anti-LGBTQ hate the early 2010s, the anizatn noted that “a small terie of groups now prise the hard re of the anti-gay movement.

C., that, acrdg to s webse, believ “homosexual nduct is harmful to the persons who engage ” and “is also harmful to society at large” — jumped om over $12 ln to more than $23 ln. “The groups that are opposed to LGBTQ equaly did their msage ttg and found that attackg gay people is no longer the broadly popular culture war totem that they ed the ’90s, ” Gberg said.

GAYS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

In a CBS News poll nducted immediately after Print Bh endorsed a nstutnal ban on gay marriage, 59% of Amerins said they would favor an amendment to the Constutn that would "allow marriage only between a man and a woman, " up slightly om 55% last a separate qutn that asked if they would support a nstutnal amendment that would "allow marriage only between a man and a women and outlaw marriag between people of the same sex, " support cl, but 51% would still support such an amendment. Sixty-two percent of Amerins oppose a law that would allow homosexual upl to marry and obta the same legal rights as other married upl; jt 30% favor gay public seems to have bee even ls receptive toward gay marriage the past seven months. Although a majory has always opposed gay marriage, last July, 40% said they would favor allowg homosexual upl to legally marry, as did 34% December.

Republins, nservativ, and people the South are the most likely to support a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage – about three-quarters of each group do. Only 4% of voters see gay marriage as the ma issue they would like the ndidat to addrs this electn year, far behd the enomy (25%), health re (13%) and the war Iraq (also 13%).

PUBLIC OPN ON GAY MARRIAGE: OPPONENTS CONSISTENTLY OUTNUMBER SUPPORTERS

Gay marriage is named by more voters than is abortn (1%), and is clearly the most relevant social issue to voters today. Opponents of the legalizatn of gay marriage are ls willg than those who favor to look beyond a ndidate's posn on the issue. Siarly, 55% of voters who favor a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage say they would never vote for a ndidate who disagre wh them on the issue of gay marriage.

Three-quarters of them would nsir votg for a ndidate who holds a different posn than they do on the those voters who say relign is extremely important to them, 61% would not vote for a ndidate who disagre wh them on gay marriage. One potential Democratic loss uld e om black voters, 58% of whom say they would not nsir votg for a ndidate who don't share their views on the issue of gay marriage. Bh's job performance as print, and 82% now say they would vote Democratic the November printial now, voters who favor the marriage amendment and won't nsir a ndidate who disagre wh them on the issue of gay marriage are nservative, relig, and Southern.