Contents:
- SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
- TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
- GROWG SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE: CHANGED MDS AND CHANGG DEMOGRAPHICS
- GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
“There was once tth to when nservative Christians said people of fah oppose gay marriage, ” he said. In her rearch, Twenge said she’s found that as the US beme more dividualistic and Amerins stopped viewg gay and lbian people as a monolh, their attus toward same-sex marriage beme more posive.
TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%). The rults, released Monday, found jt 28 percent of rponnts oppose the right of gay upl to wed. Support creased among this group, acrdg to PRRI, which found 41 percent of whe evangelils supported gay marriage a 2019 survey.
Proponents outnumbered opponents for the first time 2009 — 49 percent to 46 percent — acrdg to an ABC News/Washgton Post numbers ntued to climb, pecially after the Supreme Court enshred the eedom of gay upl to marry natnwi 2015’s Obergefell v.
Here are 10 reasons to support gay marriage, and for other lears and cizens to follow Obama's lead:.
GROWG SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE: CHANGED MDS AND CHANGG DEMOGRAPHICS
Homosexualy is a normal part of adult sexualy; gay men and lbians posss the same potential and sire for staed lovg and lastg relatnships as heterosexuals, cludg lovg and parentg children.
Discrimatory marriage laws prive gay and lbian upl of over 1000 feral rights and benefs.
Some of the reasons are taken om the posn statement of the Amerin Psychoanalytic Associatn on gay marriage approved 1997 and revised 2008.
GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
To read the entire statement and other Amerin psychoanalytic Associatn posn statements on gay rights and other social issu, click here. A new natnal survey fds that much of the shift is attributable to the arrival of a large hort of young adults – the Millennial generatn – who are far more open to gay rights than prev generatns. Equally important, however, is that 14% of all Amerins – and 28% of gay marriage supporters – say they have changed their mds on this issue favor of gay marriage.
Pollg nducted 2003 found most Amerins (58%) opposed to allowg gays and lbians to marry legally, and jt a third (33%) favor.
Roughly a third (32%) say is bee they know someone – a iend, fay member or other acquatance – who is homosexual.