First openly gay attorney general hopeful for a future of greater equaly: "We will get there someday" - CBS News

Contents:

• FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL HOPEFUL FOR A FUTURE OF GREATER EQUALY: "WE WILL GET THERE SOMEDAY"
• THE INCREDIBLY SHRKG GAY GENE
• THE INCREDIBLE SHRKG ARGUMENT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• BENEFS OF HIRG A LAWYER WH EXPERIENCE IN GAY & LGBT DIVORCE

FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL HOPEFUL FOR A FUTURE OF GREATER EQUALY: "WE WILL GET THERE SOMEDAY"

He is gay tate attorney and pickleball enthiast. The urt’s lg was on two separate s—one ncerng sexual orientatn brought by two gay men, and one brought by a transgenr woman named Aimee Stephens.

THE INCREDIBLY SHRKG GAY GENE

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Several years ago, Michael Bailey (Northwtern) and Richard Pillard (Boston School of Medice) published sophistited studi on the geic ntributn to the velopment of male and female homosexualy. Newsweek had a ver story on the rearch, askg the ver headle, "Is this child gay? It should, bee Bailey's most recent study (forthg the Journal of Personaly and Social Psychology) suggts that geic fluence on homosexual velopment may be dramatilly ls than his earlier studi projected.

THE INCREDIBLE SHRKG ARGUMENT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

In their earlier studi, Bailey and Pillard searched for gays who were tws and vtigated the sexual orientatns of their siblgs. Rearch subjects were soliced through advertisements openly progay magaz and tabloids. The fluence of geics on velopment of homosexual orientatn would, on the basis of this superr rearch, appear to be half or ls of the timat of the earlier rearch.

Only 3 pairs of intil male tws were both homosexual out of a total of 27 male intil tw pairs where at least one tw was homosexual.

His PC percentage unts each gay person a gay tw pair as a nrdance event. So even his earlier flawed study, turns out, his 52 percent nrdance for intil male tws did not mean that half of the tw pairs had both tws homosexual. Rather, appears that the earlier, biased rearch actually found about one-third of the intil tw pairs to be nrdant for homosexualy.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

Only time will tell if the fdgs make their way to public awarens, or whether the public will ntue to thk, on the basis of old headl, that is settled that "gen e homosexualy. This article is adapted om a forthg book on the topic of homosexualy, science, and Christian fah to be published by InterVarsy Prs.

He was quickly removed om the urtroom, but ntued to make himself heard om the outsi for a good 10 mut while Solicor General of the Uned Stat Donald Verrilli ma a soarg se for treatg gays and lbians equally unr the no shred of the relig arguments — a passage om Levic, for example, which nmns “a man who li wh a man” — ma s way to the briefs or the oral arguments. There weren’t even strong timatns that gay upl make bad parents — an ia that has been thoroughly rebed by numero studi. By the time the anti-gay-marriage argument had reached the hight urt the land, had bee more reasonable, ls parochial, more amenable to reasoned that daisi-and-gumdrops visn quickly gave way, my md, to a new realy.

The newt versn of the argument agast gay marriage might be pleasgly secular and (at least superficially) unmotivated by hatred of gays and lbians, but is remarkably, irreemably, thoroughly weak. So although gay parents may be jt as lovg and attentive as straight on, the new stutn of marriage that will acpany a change the law will, the medium and long term, threaten to unrme the bonds between parents and children, gay and straight argument is odd.

BENEFS OF HIRG A LAWYER WH EXPERIENCE IN GAY & LGBT DIVORCE

One n grant that “nsequenc” flow om chang societal norms whout acceptg the ntentn that allowg gays to marry would eventually the relatnships between parents and their kids. Bursch uld not expla any “empiril nnectn, ” Jtice Stephen Breyer’s words, between gay marriage and an eventual loss of timacy between parents and children.

The ia is rather obv: One of the very bt ways to have more “children created outsi the bounds marriage” is to prevent gay and lbian parents of adopted children om marryg. Subscribe for untertuive, surprisg, and impactful stori livered to your box every Thursday Jtice Kagan nclud that “ jt seems to me explible given what you’ve said are your policy terts” to want to rope gay and lbian upl out of the state’s marriage near the end of the sleepy, anticlimactic send hour of the hearg, my md wanred to an ia veloped by John Rawls, the great 20th-century polil theorist, the 1990s. You may have relig motiv for your views, and that’s fe, but stakg a public claim to a posn requir you to give reasons that people wh different metaphysil mments n relate ’s jt what we saw Tuday’s hearg: a se for whholdg a right om gays and lbians that is pletely unmoored om s relig origs.

In 1986, when I was a high school sophomore, Chief Jtice Warren Burger jtified upholdg laws crimalizg homosexual sodomy by potg out that gay sex has been seen as an “‘famo crime agast nature, ’ as an offense of ‘eper maligny’ than rape, a heo act ‘the very mentn of which is a disgrace to human nature, ’ and ‘a crime not f to be named. '” And 29 years later, after a two-foot high stack of briefs has been wrten and hours of argument aired the latt se ncerng gay rights, is clear that the old moralism no longer fli.