Texas judge still fightg to ny weddg ceremoni to gay upl | The Texas Tribune

Contents:

• WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS SO CONTROVERSIAL AMERI
• GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY FOC ON CHILDREN
• GAY MARRIAGE
• IS GAY MARRIAGE A MORAL ISSUE OR A CIVIL LIBERTI ISSUE? - PT. 1
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS SO CONTROVERSIAL AMERI

While there is generally no nsens for or agast gay marriage other Wtern natns, the issue has far more polil importance Ameri, where is the object of an exceptnally tense a few U. Stat are among the world's trailblazg jurisdictns regnizg gay marriage and gay rights, whereas the lears of var other stat would endorse the crimalizatn of homosexualy altogether, as is now the se much of the Third, after the Supreme Court held 2003 that nsensual sex between men uld not be crimalized, many social nservativ were appalled.

GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY FOC ON CHILDREN

"Many Amerins do not want persons who openly engage homosexual nduct as partners their bs, as sutmasters for their children, as teachers their children's schools, or as boarrs their home, " he other words, bis gay marriage, the unrlyg qutn of homosexualy is much more ntroversial Ameri than most other Wtern natns.

GAY MARRIAGE

Sixty percent of Amerins felt that homosexualy should be accepted by society, a far lower proportn than the people of Spa (91 percent), Germany (87 percent), France (86 percent), and Bra (81 percent). Moreover, until "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) was recently repealed, Ameri stood alone the Wt ntug to ban gays om the ary, a policy characteristic of Third World, thorarian, and Islamist natns. That not only explas why women's reproductive rights like abortn and ntraceptn are exceptnally ntroversial nservative Ameri, but also why gay rights e such clash over gay rights is an extensn of the nflict between tradnal patriarchy and the more egalarian genr system of morn tim.

IS GAY MARRIAGE A MORAL ISSUE OR A CIVIL LIBERTI ISSUE? - PT. 1

Yet, the extraordary weight of Christian fundamentalism nservative Ameri exacerbat ncerns about sexual qutn of gay rights illtrat the great polarizatn between ntemporary liberal Ameri and nservative Ameri. Lbian and gay muni, and the femist muni wh which they have historilly overlapped, have long celebrated the valu of sexual diversy over the sexual nformy reprented by marriage and the ethil importance of sexual straight-talkg rather than the double-standards so equently observed marriage’s vicy. It is large part bee of femist and gay novatns livg that marriage today is creasgly unrstood not as a relig but a social relatn; characterised not by male domatn but equaly and mutualy between the sex; valued not terms of s ntractual basis but terms of s ongog ntributn to a person’s sense of well-beg; and mataed not until ath-do--part but for as long as both parti fd satisfactn .

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Now this ragtag bunch might not seem as worthy of social protectn and prtige as the lovg, rg, long-term gay and lbian upl that are the shy new poster boys and girls for same-sex marriage.

Supporters of same-sex marriage ntend that gay and lbian upl should be treated no differently than their heterosexual unterparts and that they should be able to marry like anyone else.

They pot out, for stance, that homosexual upl who have been together for years often fd themselv whout the basic rights and privileg that are currently enjoyed by heterosexual upl who legally marry — om the sharg of health and pensn benefs to hospal visatn rights. Allowg gay and lbian upl to wed, they argue, will radilly refe marriage and further weaken at a time when the stutn is already ep trouble due to high divorce rat and the signifint number of out-of-wedlock births.