Opn | A qutn to nservative Christians on gay marriage: Why draw the le here? - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• OPN A QUTN TO NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS ON GAY MARRIAGE: WHY DRAW THE LE HERE?
• WHAT ‘CONSERVATIV FOR GAY MARRIAGE’ FET
• THE GROUND HAS SHIFTED ON GAY MARRIAGE FOR NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS.
• ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• THE HOE WILL VOTE ON LEGISLATN PROTECTG MARRIAGE EQUALY AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• HOW WILL CONSERVATIV RPOND TO GAY MARRIAGE RULG?
• CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• HOW THE SUPREME COURT’S NSERVATIV EXPLAED THEIR VOT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

OPN A QUTN TO NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS ON GAY MARRIAGE: WHY DRAW THE LE HERE?

More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%).

WHAT ‘CONSERVATIV FOR GAY MARRIAGE’ FET

Many tradnalist Christians view homosexual relatnships as sful. Amerin attus toward homosexualy have certaly changed radilly but so have our attus toward racial and genr equaly. In the space of two days this week voters North Carola approved a nstutnal amendment effectively banng same-sex marriage and US Print Barack Obama ma clear his view that gay and lbian upl should have the chance to wed.

We Southerners have held the le for tradn and moral tth about marriage every time the issue has been put on the ballot how cisive the North Carola vote was, and given that gay marriage proponents have lost every state, even culturally liberal California, is temptg to thk we n stand athwart history yellg, "Stop! In my newsroom experience, is taken as given that any opposn to gay marriage n only e om rank would no more take a fenr of tradnal marriage serly than you would take a segregatnist serly - or so the thkg go. Tryg to expla philosophilly why homosexualy is not the same thg as race draws blank is simply not somethg to be reasoned about, pecially not wh my generatn of journalists: too young to have seen the black civil rights movement, and who are not about to miss out on their own versn.

THE GROUND HAS SHIFTED ON GAY MARRIAGE FOR NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS.

Though I firmly believe there is only a superficial nnectn between gay marriage and ter-racial marriage, the legacy of the civil rights movement the South is precisely why I thk marriage tradnalists are gog to lose the long n. This tells somethg about the future of gay marriage, given the domance of the "civil rights" narrative the public is monly known,.

Gay marriage opponents like to tell themselv that people get more nservative as they age - te, general, but unlikely this long as the tradnalist posn on same-sex marriage, almost universally held only 25 years ago, is treated as irratnal hatred and nothg but by the media, bs, and social el, there will be powerful social and psychologil prsure to shun . Amerin bs culture is creasgly pro-gay. Prejudice - eher the bad sense of mdls bigotry, or the good, Burkean sense - is the only thg keepg gay marriage at will not last, pecially as the social, legal, and mercial price for holdg fast to tradn creas, as certaly will, now that same-sex marriage mands the high ground the US social and cultural hierarchy.

‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN

Gay marriage plet the stutnalisatn of the sexual revolutn, agast which the forc of social nservatism and relig tradn have been pleasg as ballot box victori are, I see no reason for the long feat to reverse, at least not my lifetime. Polics|The ground has shifted on gay marriage for nservative Christians.

ADVERTISEMENTThe ground has shifted on gay marriage for nservative a foc of the natn’s culture wars, the issue has taken a back seat to genr have been shiftg among many Christians, cludg young evangelils, support of same-sex Lamarque/RtersJune 30, 2023For s, opposn to same-sex marriage was a marquee issue for the relig right the Uned Stat. Activists like Ana Bryant, Jerry Falwell and Jam Dobson characterized homosexualy as a threat to tradnal fay the Supreme Court led Obergefell v.

Another poll by Pew found that almost half of whe evangelils born after 1964 favored same-sex marriage 2017, pared to about a quarter of olr whe fah groups that have tradnally opposed gay rights now support some acmodatns for same-sex marriage.

THE HOE WILL VOTE ON LEGISLATN PROTECTG MARRIAGE EQUALY AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS SAID THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD 'RENSIR' GAY MARRIAGE CISN

In a historic cisn for the gay right’s movement, the Supreme Court led on Friday that the U. Kennedy, who wrote the majory opn, said that gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry. Same-sex marriage supporters celebrate after the Supreme Court’s landmark lg on gay marriage.

Gay rights supporters celebrate Friday after the U. As recently as 2004, nearly twice as many Amerins opposed than favored allowg gay and lbian people to marry legally; by 2019, public opn had reversed, wh 61% favor and 31% opposed. Conservative Jtice Clarence Thomas said the Court should now "rensir" gay marriage.

HOW WILL CONSERVATIV RPOND TO GAY MARRIAGE RULG?

The Supreme Court’s cisn to strike down all gay marriage bans will force nservative Christians and Republin polil lears to make two cril they acquice to this lg, or ntue to oppose gay marriage and fight to reverse this cisn the way nservativ have battled agast Roe v.

And how they will they rpond on other issu that volve the rights of lbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgenr Amerins, such as allowg gay men to lead Boy Sut troops? Related: Landmark: Supreme Court Rul Same-Sex Marriage Legal NatnwiIn termg gay marriage is sentially a nstutnal right, the Supreme Court effect ratified the huge shift public opn favor of same-sex unns. Polls suggt the majory of the public overall backs gay marriage, wh Amerins unr 30 and Democrats overwhelmgly the same time, many relig Christians and Republins over age 50 rema opposed to same-sex marriage, acrdg to polls.

CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Few Republins holdg elective office, particularly the South, have embraced gay marriage. "Bee today we've reached the pot our society where if you do not support same-sex marriage you are labeled a homophobe and a hater. "The most obv challenge for Republins regardg gay marriage is the upg printial mpaign.

"In ntrast, Hillary Clton, the Democratic ontnner, strongly supported the Court's both ex-Florida ernor Jeb Bh and Rub have signaled they would do ltle to stop gay marriage if elected.

Neher backs the nstutnal amendment to ban gay marriage that Bh’s brother Gee W. Stt Walker took a stronger anti-gay marriage stance after Friday's lg, sayg he would support a nstutnal amendment that would allow dividual stat to ban same-sex unns. Constutn to reaffirm the abily of the stat to ntue to fe marriage, " he said opposn to gay marriage mak sense for the Republin primary procs, which begs Iowa, whose uc are domated by olr and relig voters.

HOW THE SUPREME COURT’S NSERVATIV EXPLAED THEIR VOT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

)Democrats, as Rub suggted his CBN terview, are likely to st GOP ndidat who don’t support gay marriage as tolerant. So the general electn, the Republin nomee will face prsure to eher reverse his or her stance on gay marriage or uch their opposn is already takg steps to balance both views.

"The nventnal wisdom for now among Republins is opposn to gay marriage is polilly palatable as long as they don’t mpaign tensely on the ’s unclear if such a posn is tenable, if the number of Amerins backg gay marriage ntu to rise over the next abortn, will be difficult for Republins to fight same-sex marriage. The 1973 Roe lg left a lot of room for rtrictns on abortn rights, so nservativ have passed measur such as requirg wag perds and banng abortns the last few months of a ’s not clear there are any such ways to lim gay marriage.

Realizg the Court was likely to le favor of a natnal right to gay marriage, the GOP had sentially ced the marriage issue even before Republins have sought to pass so-lled relig eedom laws. Those provisn are signed part to allow bs owned by those opposed to gay marriage not to have to engage activi that effect ndone same-sex unns.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

Christian-owned terers, for example, uld choose not to prepare food for gay the laws have generated a backlash. Gay rights groups, joed by Democrats and many bs and rporatns, have cried those relig eedom laws as discrimatn and stopped the movement to pass them.

Many Boy Suts troops are sponsored by church and other relig groups, where opposn to same-sex marriage and gay rights remas Robert Gat, the former Defense Secretary who is now the print of Boys Suts of Ameri, said a recent speech that the ban on gay lears “nnot be staed” today’s polil New York Tim edorial board lled earlier this month for the U.