The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa's July 23 natnal electn.
Contents:
- THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
- THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW
- BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE DON'T MAKE YOU A HOMOPHOBE
THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
* are you against gay marriage *
Sometim the bate on gay marriage has been polarised, stg those who supported the measure as the right-thkg and those who opposed as irratnal and guilty of tac homophobia.
The law to allow gay marriage passed quickly and there are those who still feel they have not had a proper chance to air their ncerns.
THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW
The Hoe of Reprentativ on Tuday passed a bill to dify the right to gay marriage the wake of the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wa * are you against gay marriage *
The relig scepticThere are relig people who oppose gay marriage primarily out of a fear that one day equaly laws will force a church, mosque or temple to host a ceremony. Not all gay people are favourNot every gay person is favour of gay marriage.
"I am a Conservative and a homosexual, and I oppose gay marriage, " wrote the Daily Mail's Andrew Pierce 2012. As an atheist gay who regards marriage as part of the baggage of heterosexual society which I have e to rpect but n never fully share, I am tempted to say a plague on both your ho, " he wrote the Daily Telegraph source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The historian David Starkey: "I'm torn on gay marriage"Actor Rupert Everett perhaps gave the most lourful argument agast, a 2012 terview the Guardian. It's jt a waste of time the heterosexual world, and the homosexual world I fd personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this stutn that is so clearly a disaster.
"Society gave legal and stutnal exprsn to what many hold to be te - that gay and lbian people should have the same rights to formalise their mment to each other and enjoy the social and legal benefs that oppose-sex upl have, " said the Lord Bishop of Exeter to the Hoe of Lords 2013. But he unters that he's favour of the gay marriage law bee is a necsary symbolic and cultural step towards full equaly. "I have no problem at all wh homosexual marriage or partnerships, " says Dear.
BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE DON'T MAKE YOU A HOMOPHOBE
What to make of Cardal Timothy Dolan's claim that the Catholic Church has been unfairly ritured as anti-gay?
(Stefano Rellandi/Rters)Do beg agast gay marriage make someone anti-gay? The qutn rurfaced last week when Cardal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, claimed on Meet the Prs that the Catholic Church is unfairly “ritured” as anti-gay. The Huffgton Post’s Pl Rshenbh quickly wrote up a rponse, sayg that “The hard realy that Cardal Dolan and all Christians need to face up to is that the Catholic Church along wh every other church whether Orthodox, Prottant or Catholic has been horrifilly, persistently and vehemently anti-gay for almost all of s history.
”Then Rshenbh hled out a faiar argument: “Let's jt be very clear here —if you are agast marriage equaly you are anti-gay. ”As a gay man, I found myself disappoted wh this fn—that anyone wh any sort of moral rervatns about gay marriage is by fn anti-gay.