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Contents:
- THGS GAY PEOPLE CAN'T DO
- THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
- SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
- 5 EEDOMS GAY AMERINS NOW HAVE THAT THEY DIDN’T HAVE TWO YEARS AGO
- LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
THGS GAY PEOPLE CAN'T DO
Though many stat have passed laws allowg gay marriage and the Uned Stat is trendg towards beg more open to and supportive of gay rights, there are ... * rights gay couples do not have *
After 19 long years of fightg, has been repeatedly nied due to certa hate-groups and relig groups that thk makg employment equal will lead to a slew of gay marriage their neighborhood, leadg (evably) to certa would be a start, but do not apply to small bs, relig anizatns or the ary (more on this later), and do not require that domtic partner benefs be provid to the same-sex partners of employe. The abily for a gay man to give blood was taken away ia behd this ban was based on men who are sexually active wh other men are more likely to have or ntract HIV, disuntg the fact that heterosexuals who practice unsafe sex may also have a higher chance of havg or ntractg HIV. Those who are agast gays and lbians adoptg say that there is an alleged greater prevalence of prsn, dg e, promiscuy, and suici among homosexuals might affect children, or that the absence of male and female role mols uld e maladjtment.
Apparently, parents who are lovg, rg, and tst worthy are not "safe" enough to be nsired good Wikimedia Commons / CC-BYSome Catholic church will not adm children to their school if their parents are gay. Also, some surance pani have attempted to refe a claim or ncel the policy altogether on the basis that the uple is LGBTs have reported to the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force that they have been discrimated agast when tryg to purchase, rent, or lease a home and transgenrs are even more often discrimated than lbians and gays. Not only are the rights of homosexuals beg trampled on, but not havg the stat of beg legally married will not grant them all th other rights that married upl areas that are affected are: Social Secury benefs, veterans' benefs, health surance, Mediid, hospal visatn, tate tax, retirement savgs, pensns, fay leave, and immigratn law.
Although the legalizatn of same-sex marriage has provid many rights and protectns to same-sex married upl that did not exist prevly, there are still many rights and protectns that are enjoyed by heterosexual married upl which are not currently provid for homosexual married upl. Transgenr parents, parents who e out as gay while married to an oppose-sex spoe, and parents whose spo have died sometim fd their ctodial rights challenged by ex-spo or survivg fay members who, spe volum of evince to the ntrary, qutn their fns as parents based on their sexual orientatn or genr inty.
THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
Proponents ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, opponents ague that marriage is primarily for procreatn. * rights gay couples do not have *
It also clus the rights to form social and polil anizatns, to socialize bars and rtrants, to march or prott peacefully, to produce art wh gay them and to speak out publicly about LGBT issu. This means protectg stunts om vlence, guaranteeg their right to anize events and clubs like other stunts, and makg sure that gay teachers who might serve as healthy role mols are not themselv victimized by discrimatn. The ACLU has fought harassment of stunts California, Nevada, Oh and Washgton, fend gay teachers California, Idaho and Utah, and advoted for gay stunt groups Alabama, Indiana, Mnota, Utah and Wisns.
As a remr of what is supposed to be the sence of child-welfare policy, the ACLU’s Lbian and Gay Rights Project 1998 published a report entled In the Child’s Bt Intert: Defendg Fair and Sensible Adoptn Polici. Y, twelve stat (California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachetts, Mnota, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Jersey, Rho Island, Vermont and Wisns), the District of Columbia, many municipali, and hundreds of bs and universi have enacted laws that protect gay, lbian and bisexual people om employment discrimatn.
SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
Sce they n not marry, the partners of lbians and gay men are not next of k tim of crisis; they are not nsulted on ccial medil cisns; they are not given leave to re for each other; they are not each other’s legal heirs, if, like most Amerins, they do not have wills.
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.
A 2010 analysis found that after their stat had banned gay marriage, gay, lbian and bisexual people suffered a 37% crease mood disorrs, a 42% crease alhol-e disorrs, and a 248% crease generalized anxiety disorrs. In 2012, the Williams Instute at the Universy of California at Los Angel (UCLA) found that the first five years after Massachetts legalized gay marriage 2004, same-sex weddg expendur (such as venue rental, weddg k, etc. 2016 printial ndidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fra stated that civil unns are aquate as an equivalent to marriage: “Benefs are beg btowed to gay upl [ civil unns]… I believe we need to rpect those who believe that the word marriage has a spirual foundatn… Why n’t we rpect and tolerate that while at the same time sayg ernment nnot btow benefs unequally.
5 EEDOMS GAY AMERINS NOW HAVE THAT THEY DIDN’T HAVE TWO YEARS AGO
Court papers filed July 2014 by attorneys fendg Arizona’s gay marriage ban stated that “the State regulat marriage for the primary purpose of channelg potentially procreative sexual relatnships to endurg unns for the sake of jog children to both their mother and their father… Same-sex upl n never provi a child wh both her blogil mother and her blogil father. Lee Badgett, PhD, Director of the Center for Public Policy and Admistratn at the Universy of Massachetts at Amherst, stated that for many gay activists “marriage means adoptg heterosexual forms of fay and givg up distctively gay fay forms and perhaps even gay and lbian culture. Pla Ettelbrick, JD, Profsor of Law and Women’s Studi, wrote 1989, “Marriage ns ntrary to two of the primary goals of the lbian and gay movement: the affirmatn of gay inty and culture and the validatn of many forms of relatnships.
LGBT activist llective Agast Equaly stated, “Gay marriage ap hetero privilege… [and] creas enomic equaly by perpetuatg a system which ems married begs more worthy of the basics like health re and enomic rights. Queer activist Anrs Zanichkowsky stated June 2013 that the then mpaign for gay marriage “tentnally and malicly eras and exclus so many queer people and cultur, particularly trans and genr non-nformg people, poor queer people, and queer people non-tradnal fai… marriage thks non-married people are viant and not tly servg of civil rights.
In Islamic tradn, several hadhs (passag attributed to the Prophet Muhammad) nmn gay and lbian relatnships, cludg the saygs “When a man mounts another man, the throne of God shak, ” and “Sihaq [lbian sex] of women is za [illegimate sexual terurse]. Matt Barber, Associate Dean for Onle Programs at Liberty Universy School of Law, stated, “Every dividual engaged the homosexual liftyle, who has adopted a homosexual inty, they know, tuively, that what they’re dog is immoral, unnatural, and self-stctive, yet they thirst for that affirmatn. A 2003 set of guil signed by Pope John Pl II stated: “There are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God’s plan for marriage and fay… Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go agast the natural moral law.
LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
On May 17, 2004, the first legal gay marriage the Uned Stat was performed Cambridge, MA between Tanya McCloskey, a massage therapist, and Marcia Kadish, an employment manager at an engeerg firm. Supreme Court overturned the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which nied feral benefs to same-sex spo stat where gay marriage is legal, MarketWatch published a story entled, “5 thgs you still n’t do Ameri if you’re gay. Here’s how the pace of social change over the last uple of months has rced those five thgs om our 2013 story to zeri — wh some veats: Then: Boy Sut banned LGBT lears Now: Boy Suts of Ameri lifts ban In May 2013, the Boy Suts of Ameri lifted the ban on gay suts after a proposal to partially remove the ban was submted to the 1, 400 votg members of the Natnal Council.
Many gay rights activists saw this as a Pyrrhic victory: Should an olr sut clare he is homosexual, however, he was still not able to bee a sut lear, and would have to relquish his role as lear if he currently had one. ” Burns, who is now director of strategy and policy at the Massachetts Department of Revenue, said prevented LGBT lears om participatg one of the most important civic anizatns the untry On Monday, the Boy Suts of Ameri officially announced an end to that ban wh 79% of the natnal executive board votg favor, two years after endg a ban on openly gay boy suts, provg that even some of the untry’s most tradnal stutns are changg wh the tim — albe unr prsure om the media, whholdg of charable donatns om rporatns and protts by some members of the public. ) Then: Gay Amerins uld not seek legal reurse for beg fired Now: Gay Amerins are now protected unr the Civil Rights Act In 2013, a bipartisan group of lawmakers troduced the Employment Non-Discrimatn Act, or ENDA.
Then: Gay men uld not donate blood Now: FDA to loosen ban on blood donatn In 1985, the Food and Dg Admistratn banned men who have sex wh men — or “MSM” — om donatg blood, but given signifint advanc ttg, screeng and transmissn preventn, the FDA’s outright ban is set to change. The one-year le still exclus huge numbers of gay and bisexual men and don’t utilize a risk-based asssment, says Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign Washgton, D.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Then: Gay Amerins uld not adopt ( 7 stat) Now: Same-sex upl n now adopt There was a patchwork of adoptn laws across the untry 2013 that ma parentg a nightmare for gay upl, a spokman for the Human Rights Campaign told MarketWatch at that time. Although no state laws prevented adoptn by gay or lbians, same-sex upl were effectively unable to adopt a child together stat where they were unable to get married or enter to a civil partnership. When that lg me through, Jim Obergefell, the lead platiff that se, said, “It is my hope that the term gay marriage will soon be a thg of the past, that om this day forward will be simply, marriage.