Gay Marriage Is Good for Ameri | Brookgs

Contents:

• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• THE ENOMIC BENEFS OF GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE
• THE HOE WILL VOTE ON LEGISLATN PROTECTG MARRIAGE EQUALY AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• 27 REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI
• SAME-SEX WEDDGS HAVE BOOSTED ENOMI BY $3.8 BILLN SCE GAY MARRIAGE WAS LEGALIZED FIVE YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, A NEW STUDY SAYS

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

Like heterosexuals, many lbian, gay, and bisexual people want to form stable, long-lastg relatnships and many of them do. In fact, rearchers have found that the majory of lbian, and gay, adults are mted relatnships and many upl have been together 10 or more years.

Empiril rearch also shows that lbian and gay upl have levels of relatnship satisfactn siar to or higher than those of heterosexual upl. 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.

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. The bate over same-sex marriage – or “gay marriage” – has been ntent natnal and state polics for nearly twenty years. In recent years, sixteen stat and the District of Columbia have legalized same-sex marriage and another three stat have approved civil unns or domtic partnerships that clu full spoal rights for lbian, gay and bisexual upl.

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

Dpe this progrs, as of the end of 2013, only 37% of Amerins live a state wh marriage equaly; and many lbian, gay, and bisexual people still do not enjoy the full rights and benefs associated wh marriage. Limg marriage to heterosexual upl ni lbian, gay, and bisexual adults accs to an important social stutn and an important sense turns them to send-class cizens.

THE ENOMIC BENEFS OF GAY MARRIAGE

But most stat still discrimate, and several rearch studi have reported related dispari health and accs to re for lbians, gays, and bisexual people livg stat that ban same-sex marriage through nstutnal amendments.

Lbian, gay, and bisexual adults livg such stat are more likely than their unterparts stat wh same-sex marriage to report symptoms of prsn, anxiety, and alhol e disorr.

GAY MARRIAGE

Consequently, expandg and supportg marriage for same-sex upl should enable lbian, gay, and bisexual adults to live happier, healthier and longer liv. A study Massachetts followed a group of gay and bisexual men before and after the legalizatn of same-sex marriage and disvered that the men beme ls likely to need mental health or medil re viss. Two studi found that lbian, gay, and bisexual adults who married followg the California Supreme Court lg favor of same-sex marriage reported ls psychologil distrs and were more likely to ga health surance verage.

Th, children are left wh dimished protectns stat that do not allow legal marriag or adoptns for lbian and gay upl.

THE HOE WILL VOTE ON LEGISLATN PROTECTG MARRIAGE EQUALY AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE CISN

The study also found that dispari private surance verage dimished for children of same-sex parents livg stat wh marriage equaly or laws supportg gay and lbian All Stat Can Improve Fay ProtectnsGiven polil gridlock Congrs, stat are more likely than the feral ernment to advance protectns for members of gay, lbian, and bisexual fai. Such steps beneficial to the lbian, gay, and bisexual populatn clu anti-discrimatn laws hog and employment; rights of legal adoptn by gay and lbian upl; anti-bullyg laws to better protect gay youth om harassment; and cln of crim agast gays, lbians, and bisexual people anti-crime legislatn. Inially, stat may adopt civil unns or prehensive domtic partnerships that clu full spoal rights and protectns for members of gay and lbian partnerships – to be followed later by full marriage equaly by legislatn or urt lgs.

27 REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court led that gay marriage is a right protected by the US Constutn all 50 stat.

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.

GAY MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR AMERI

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. 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.

SAME-SEX WEDDGS HAVE BOOSTED ENOMI BY $3.8 BILLN SCE GAY MARRIAGE WAS LEGALIZED FIVE YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, A NEW STUDY SAYS

A study found that same-sex married upl were “signifintly ls distrsed than lbian, gay, and bisexual persons not a legally regnized relatnship.