A nversatn about open and monogamo marriage, for gay men and for all.
Contents:
- A GUI FOR GAY MEN ON BOTH OPEN AND MONOGAMO MARRIAGE
- MY ANSWERS TO QUTNS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- 7 QUTNS FOR CHRISTIANS ABOUT THE GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE
A GUI FOR GAY MEN ON BOTH OPEN AND MONOGAMO MARRIAGE
Opposn to gay unns has been swept away. Will relig rights go next? * interview questions on gay marriage *
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.
MY ANSWERS TO QUTNS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
* interview questions on gay marriage *
To explore the se for gay marriage, the Pew Fom has turned to Jonathan Rch, a lumnist at The Natnal Journal and gut scholar at The Brookgs Instutn. Rch, who is openly gay, also thored the 2004 book Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for Ameri. I’ve given a lot of talks on gay marriage a lot of ci sce wrg a book about 2004 lled Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for Ameri.
You get very sympathetic people who say, I really want to do somethg for gay people, but changg the fundamental boundari of our most ancient, important stutn jt go too far, so let’s do civil unns or somethg else. We uld also have other bat about what the Bible do and don’t mean, but I thk what boils down to is that gay people should al wh the same standards as straight people.
7 QUTNS FOR CHRISTIANS ABOUT THE GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE
gay “marriage”, here is a list of the qutns I e across most often, wh my brief answers:-1-"Why are you agast gay marriage?"I * interview questions on gay marriage *
And when straight people start upholdg biblil law civic culture, then maybe gay people should nsir , but not until then. To have those people set up a married kd of liftyle – often raisg kids, by the way; many gay upl are raisg kids – outsi of marriage sends all the wrong cultural signals. The big cultural problem wh the fay Ameri is not that gay people want to get married – ’s that straight people are not gettg married or not stayg married.
And to me, one of the important cultural effects of gay marriage will be to send a very strong signal that marriage is somethg that is available to and expected of everybody, not jt a few. I’ve never really unrstood why admtg gay upl – fairly small number – to the stutn of marriage and havg them uphold those ials would make marriage ls likely or succsful for anyone else. I often say, you know, when straight people get the right to marry two or three people or their mother or a toaster, then gay people should have the same right.
In most public discsns, the issue of same-sex marriage is posed as a simple qutn – for or agast? – where to be for or agast is to be, more or ls, for or agast gay people. Although don’t… * interview questions on gay marriage *
But all gay people are askg for now is the one thg that we lack but that all straight people already have – they don’t need to give themselv anythg more. I’ve often said, if I believed that gay marriage would wreck straight marriage then I’d be agast jt as if I thought that givg women the vote would wreck mocracy so that no one’s vote mattered, I’d be agast that, too. On the other hand, if gay marriage was to have a very small, sort of cremental bad effect on the divorce rate for straight people, I’d say that’s not enough to stop bee you’ve got 10, 12, 15 ln Amerins not only whout marriage, but whout even the prospect of marriage.
Are we the lull before the storm, or do you thk that wispread legalizatn of gay marriage is still a long way off, if happens at all? And then after Goodridge mandated same-sex marriage Massachetts, you had some of the gay marriage advot sayg, we need to get the urt to impose this around the untry as fast as possible. And then you had nservativ sayg, we need to sh through a nstutnal amendment at the feral level to ban gay marriage on every ch of Amerin soil forever.
That om muny and that’s somethg gay upl are gog to have to build by showg, as I thk we are Massachetts, that we n be good maral cizens, that we’re not hurtg anybody else’s marriage. When this issue first me up 1970 – the first gay uple tried to get married 1970, filed a lawsu and lost – the urts were the only place you uld go. I see the prospect for young people to grow up assumg that they will have fai and nnectns to their muny that have been nied to gay people for thoands of years.