Contents:
- BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE DON'T MAKE YOU A HOMOPHOBE
- NO, WE N’T ‘AGREE TO DISAGREE’ ON GAY ‘MARRIAGE’: AND HERE’S WHY
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE DON'T MAKE YOU A HOMOPHOBE
Homosexual upl g vro fertilizatn (IVF) or surrogate mothers liberately create a class of children who will live apart om their mother or father. Although homosexual men are ls likely to have children than lbians, homosexual men are and will be raisg children. There will be even more if homosexual civil marriage is legalized.
A number of leadg profsnal associatns have asserted that there are "no differenc" between children raised by homosexuals and those raised by heterosexuals. Soclogist Steven Nock of the Universy of Virgia, who is agnostic on the issue of same-sex civil marriage, offered this review of the lerature on gay parentg as an expert wns for a Canadian urt nsirg legalizatn of same-sex civil marriage:.
Evince suggts children raised by homosexuals are more likely to experience genr and sexual disorrs. Although the evince on child out is sketchy, do suggt that children raised by lbians or homosexual men are more likely to experience genr and sexual disorrs.
NO, WE N’T ‘AGREE TO DISAGREE’ ON GAY ‘MARRIAGE’: AND HERE’S WHY
Reported havg a homoerotic relatnship. " Stacey also observ that children of lbians are more likely to report homoerotic attractns. Neverthels, th studi give some crence to nservative ncerns about the effects of homosexual parentg.
In the first edn of his book fense of same-sex marriage, Virtually Normal, homosexual mentator Andrew Sullivan wrote: "There is more likely to be greater unrstandg of the need for extramaral outlets between two men than between a man and a woman. Only about 50 percent of gay men civil unns valued sexual fily.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
It is plsible to spect that legal regnn of homosexual civil marriage would have siar nsequenc for the stutn of marriage; that is, would further stabilize the norm that adults should sacrifice to get and stay married for the sake of their children. Homosexual civil marriage would make even easier than already is for men to ratnalize their abandonment of their children.
If the distctive sexual patterns of "mted" gay upl are any ditn (see above), is unlikely that homosexual marriage would domtite men the way that heterosexual marriage do. It is also extremely unlikely that the blogil effects of heterosexual marriage on men would also be found homosexual marriage. Th, gay activists who argue that same-sex civil marriage will domtite gay men are, all likelihood, clgg to a foolish hope.
What to make of Cardal Timothy Dolan's claim that the Catholic Church has been unfairly ritured as anti-gay? (Stefano Rellandi/Rters)Do beg agast gay marriage make someone anti-gay? The qutn rurfaced last week when Cardal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, claimed on Meet the Prs that the Catholic Church is unfairly “ritured” as anti-gay.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
The Huffgton Post’s Pl Rshenbh quickly wrote up a rponse, sayg that “The hard realy that Cardal Dolan and all Christians need to face up to is that the Catholic Church along wh every other church whether Orthodox, Prottant or Catholic has been horrifilly, persistently and vehemently anti-gay for almost all of s history. ”Then Rshenbh hled out a faiar argument: “Let's jt be very clear here —if you are agast marriage equaly you are anti-gay. ”As a gay man, I found myself disappoted wh this fn—that anyone wh any sort of moral rervatns about gay marriage is by fn anti-gay.
If Rshenbh is right, then that means my parents are anti-gay, many of my relig iends (of all fahs) are anti-gay, the Pope is anti-gay, and—y, we’ll go here—first-century, Jewish theologian J is anti-gay.
That’s spe the fact that while some relig people don’t support gay marriage a sacramental sense, many of them are favor of same-sex civil unns and full rights for the parti volved. To be sure, most gay people, myself clud, won’t be satisfied until our lovg, monogamo relatnships are graced wh the word “marriage. ” But ’s important to rell that many relig dividuals do support strong civil rights for the gay members of their muni.