Are there scientific reasons to oppose gay marriage? | Psychology | The Guardian

Contents:

• WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
• ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: MARRIAGE IS FOR PROCREATN
• ANALYSIS OF SHELDON’S GAY MARRIAGE UNNATURAL ESSAY EXAMPLE
• ARE THERE SCIENTIFIC REASONS TO OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE?
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• GAY MARRIAGE: A CHRISTIAN RPONSE
• THE LOGIL FALLACY GAY-MARRIAGE OPPONENTS DEPEND UPON

WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

Likewise, while a gay male may not reproduce, ’s been noted that his female relativ are often more reproductively succsful, so ’s theorized that one gene that may ntribute to homosexualy when rried by a man also ntribut to reproductive succs when rried by a woman. As Alan Chambers, print of Exod Internatnal (the once preement but now funct ex-gay therapy program), put 2012, “The majory of people that I have met, and I would say the majory meang 99. Matt Barber, Associate Dean for Onle Programs at Liberty Universy School of Law, stated, “Every dividual engaged the homosexual liftyle, who has adopted a homosexual inty, they know, tuively, that what they’re dog is immoral, unnatural, and self-stctive, yet they thirst for that affirmatn.

A 2003 set of guil signed by Pope John Pl II stated: “There are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God’s plan for marriage and fay… Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go agast the natural moral law. Former Arkansas ernor and Republin printial ndidate Mike Huckabee stated that gay marriage is “nsistent wh nature and nature’s law.

In the name of the “fay, ” same-sex “marriage” serv to validate not only such unns but the whole homosexual liftyle all s bisexual and transgenr variants. Homosexual activists argue that same-sex “marriage” is a civil rights issue siar to the stggle for racial equaly the 1960s.

ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: MARRIAGE IS FOR PROCREATN

If homosexual “marriage” is universally accepted as the prent step sexual “eedom, ” what logil arguments n be ed to stop the next steps of ct, pedophilia, btialy, and other forms of unnatural behavr?

The railroadg of same-sex “marriage” on the Amerin people mak creasgly clear what homosexual activist Pl Varnell wrote the Chigo Free Prs:"The gay movement, whether we acknowledge or not, is not a civil rights movement, not even a sexual liberatn movement, but a moral revolutn aimed at changg people's view of homosexualy. Genis also teach how God punished Sodom and Gomorrah for the s of homosexualy: “The Lord raed down sulphuro fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah. In tellectually opposg dividuals or anizatns promotg the homosexual agenda, our only tent is the fense of tradnal marriage, the fay, and the prec remnants of Christian civilizatn.

ANALYSIS OF SHELDON’S GAY MARRIAGE UNNATURAL ESSAY EXAMPLE

As practicg Catholics, we are filled wh passn and pray for those who stggle agast unrelentg and vlent temptatn to homosexual s. We pray also for the judg, legislators and ernment officials who one way or another take steps that favor homosexualy and same-sex “marriage. To the arguments favor of homosexualy and same-sex “marriage” we rpond wh arguments based on right reason, natural law and Dive Revelatn.

Why are those who are opposed to gay marriage/same-sex marriage labeled as hateful people or tolerant bigots, no matter how rpectfully the opposn is prented? Why is the gay rights movement so aggrsively phg for gay marriage/same-sex marriage when most people, relig and non-relig, are supportive of gay upl havg the same legal rights as married upl through some form of civil unn? And a good way to normalize homosexualy is to place gay marriage/same-sex marriage on an equal plane wh tradnal, oppose-genr marriage.

To sanctn gay marriage/same-sex marriage is to approve of the homosexual liftyle, which the Bible clearly and nsistently labels as sful.

ARE THERE SCIENTIFIC REASONS TO OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE?

The ia that gay upl n’t marry bee of the disnnect between homosexualy and procreatn cuts across many arguments agast gay marriage.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

Gay marriage would unrme marriage bee is a legal and moral stutn signed to promote and protect procreatn and raisg of children. Consir the assumptn that the “natural” end of marriage (or sex general) is procreatn, and that therefore non-procreative gay upl nnot reasonably be allowed to marry. It is cur that the opprobrium heaped upon gays who want to marry is not also directed at elrly people who want to marry, ditg that the problem nnot possibly stem om people’s disapproval of a uple that won’t be havg children.

Whatever the reason, more gay upl are not childls — and if marriage, whether “nature” or as a legal stutn, exists to promote and protect both procreatn and the raisg of children, then why n’t do so for gay upl as well as straight upl?

Fally, is argued that the existence of gay marriag would nstute a secratn of a sacred stutn created by God for the purpose procreatn. This might be te if church that regard homosexualy as an abomatn were forced to perform and regnize same-sex marriag, but no one is suggtg this occur. Sheldon, his say “Gay Marriage ‘Unnatural’, ” alerts his rears to his general proposn that gay marriage is, theoretilly, culturally and physlogilly impossible and th not worth the rights protectns that other groups enjoy.

GAY MARRIAGE: A CHRISTIAN RPONSE

Furthermore, Sheldon argu that the only claim that homosexuals n make to validate their posns as victims needg rights is the argument that homosexualy is geilly lked, prent at birth. Cg the fact that major medil associatns, cludg the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and Amerin Psychiatric associatn, do not classify homosexualy as havg blogil, geic, or hormonal ponents, Sheldon asserts that is not worthy of nsiratn.

Spoutg the statistic that eight out of ten cizens do not support homosexual marriage, he argu that homosexual marriage is ntradictory to basic Amerin valu, beliefs and standards. Sheldon, and those who thk as he do, fear that such a policy would mandate the cln of homosexual marriage policy public school textbooks, th teachg imprsnable children this heo liftyle school. ” Analysis Sheldon’s basic this that homosexualy ntradicts Amerin’s basic cultural valu and vlat the natural orr of human physlogy is flawed for several reasons.

THE LOGIL FALLACY GAY-MARRIAGE OPPONENTS DEPEND UPON

Send, Sheldon’s arguments that homosexualy is behavral, whether te or not, do not create an obligatn to ny Amerins rights guaranteed by the forefathers of this untry. However, neher do the schools, publitns and associatns refer to homosexualy as a disease, as unnatural or as the rult of “flty wirg” as the reverend suggts. If one were to pese the journals on the topic, he would undoubtedly fd many studi which are nclive as to the geic ponent of homosexualy which simply dit that more rearch is need before such assertns n be ma.

Fltily followg om this notn that homosexualy is no way geic, Sheldon not that, bee is a behavr that is chosen by a group of people, homosexualy do not qualify for rights protectns. They are not cheatg the system, mtg vlent crim, overcrowdg jails, nng dgs or out of the untry or dog any of the behavrs that seem to be plagug the 90% of Amerins who do not claim to be homosexual.

What legal precent is there for NOT allowg homosexuals to be married when heterosexual dg alers and other crimals are allowed to marry every day. Fally, Sheldon asserts that Amerins do not want their children exposed to homosexual liftyl and disagree wh homosexual marriage.