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opinion piece on gay marriage

There have been and there always will be arguments for gay marriage. Read through the followg article for some tails on this sensive topic.

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A schism over gay marriage has led to a spl the Anglin church Atralia. Dmond Tutu is by far the most high-profile Ain, if not global, relig lear to support lbian and gay rights, and he has done so sce the 1970s. In an terview, law profsor Carlos Ball explas how gay rights activists and rporatns went om adversari to partners.

New York the early 1980s was a time of lerary salons, ncentrated ambn and a flowerg of gay cultural power. Could their attractivens also lor their views on issu like abortn, premaral sex and gay marriage?

As gay Cubans ga more rights, opposn is also growg. But as the untry bat a new Constutn that would protect LGBT rights, church have e out strongly agast gay marriage — a sign of change on the Communist island. Before lonialism, India embraced homosexualy and genr fluidy.

OPN: WHY THE FS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

Gay rights mpaigners n creasgly look to untri like the UK, France and the U.S. for spiratn and mon e, but their opponents are also mobilisg on an ternatnal sle agast plans to perm same-sex marriage, many of them uned by relig fah. * opinion piece on gay marriage *

The Supreme Court’s repeal of a 157-year-old gay sex ban partially reclaims that history, but LGBTQ Indians still face hurdl. The UK this week took another landmark step towards grantg full equaly to gay people.

ARGUMENTS FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Campaigners warn that advancg gay marriage the Wt risks distractg attentn om more urgent rights issu. Opponents of same-sex marriage argue that the equaly argument ma by gay rights mpaigners is a false one. Yet, as late as 1967, to share a gay relatnship the UK was to risk arrt, imprisonment and life-wreckg public huiatn.

Even after homosexualy England and Wal was fally crimalized that summer – a month after the release of the Beatl’ “Sgt.

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” – gay people Stland would have to wa until 1980 for the same right, and those Northern Ireland two more years. This week, almost 46 years later, the Hoe of Commons, the lower hoe of the UK parliament, took another landmark step towards grantg full equaly to gay people by votg favor of a bill that would give them the right to marry.

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