If gay marriage were legalized, would really be the end of marriage as we know ?
Contents:
- THE REAL IMPACT OF GAY MARRIAGE ON SOCIETY
- 7 WAYS THE U.S.A. BENEFS FROM THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE
- 9 ADVANTAG AND DISADVANTAG OF GAY MARRIAGE
THE REAL IMPACT OF GAY MARRIAGE ON SOCIETY
* how does legalizing gay marriage affect society *
WASHINGTON – Legalized gay marriage (search) may never e the transformatn of society that some have predicted, given that is likely to affect ls than one 100 U. C., "the realy is the impact on marriage numerilly is that gay upl will still make up a ty actn of married upl. ”Analysts e the 2000 Cens (search) to rive an official unt of the number of possible gay unns the Uned Stat -- 595, 000 hoeholds head by same-sex partners.
4 ln acrdg to the 2000 cens – analysts are torn over the impact legalized gay marriage will have on the way Amerins view the stutn and the way they look at Gallagher, -thor of “The Case for Marriage, ” recently ttified ont of the Senate that gay marriage activists are misreprentg the impact gay marriage will have.
7 WAYS THE U.S.A. BENEFS FROM THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE
”Gallagher claims that wh the legal onset of gay marriage, ernments will be the posn of forcg onto cizens a belief system that equat homosexualy wh heterosexualy — through public schools, taxpayer-fund programs like chari and non-profs, workplac and even fah-based anizatns (search) that receive public dollars. “It will be a new legal and social norm and the law is gog to enforce this new social and legal norm on people, ” she far, Massachetts is the only state nsirg legal gay marriage.
Its Supreme Judicial Court (search) led unnstutnal for the state to ny marriage licens to gay upl. The Legislature there is now batg whether to change s nstutn to ban such marriag but the licens are already beg distributed and a nstutnal amendment would not be ratified before the May date the urt set for allowg gay California and New York have fied their state laws and begun marryg gay upl.
9 ADVANTAG AND DISADVANTAG OF GAY MARRIAGE
Constutn that would fe marriage as between a man and a woman and protect stat om havg to regnize gay upl married stat that allow gay is a bate over whether the issue will land the lap of the U. Jonathan Rch, a wrer for the Natnal Journal (search) and thor of the upg “Gay Marriage: Why ’s Good for Gays, Good for Straights and Good for Ameri, ” said he don’t thk a nstutnal amendment is g, and believ that over the long-term, stat will expand marriage rights to homosexuals and the number of hold-outs will dwdle.
“My personal view is gay marriage will have a signifintly posive effect on gay people, non-gay people and on marriage, ” he said. “For gay upl, will brg the stabily and healths and happs that marriage uniquely provis.
He pots to a of legalized gay unns Sndavia, where marriage rat have cled as the number of babi born to habatg has risen. ”Kurtz said he do not anticipate a future “patchwork” of state laws which some will be gay marriage-iendly while others will not regnize the unns. ”Rch balked at this ia, potg out that the natns of Sndavia do not regnize gay marriage, jt civil partnerships.