Amerins creasgly support gay and lbian rights and same-sex marriage, but support for trans issu—like genr-affirmg re and bathroom accs—lag behd amid unrelentg GOP cricism.
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE: PROS, CONS, AND WHERE BOTH PARTI STAND
- TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
- GROWG SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE: CHANGED MDS AND CHANGG DEMOGRAPHICS
- WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
GAY MARRIAGE: PROS, CONS, AND WHERE BOTH PARTI STAND
Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, has been legal the US sce 2015. Learn what both parti thk about the pros and ns of this issue. * how do you feel about gay marriage *
Like heterosexuals, many lbian, gay, and bisexual people want to form stable, long-lastg relatnships and many of them do. In fact, rearchers have found that the majory of lbian, and gay, adults are mted relatnships and many upl have been together 10 or more years. Empiril rearch also shows that lbian and gay upl have levels of relatnship satisfactn siar to or higher than those of heterosexual upl.
TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
* how do you feel about gay marriage *
How do laws that lim marriage to heterosexuals affect gay and lbian people? The fai and iends of lbian and gay upl who are nied marriage rights may also experience negative physil and mental health nsequenc siar to those experienced by their loved on. The vast majory of scientific studi that have directly pared lbian and gay parents wh heterosexual parents have nsistently shown that the same-sex upl are as f and pable parents as heterosexual upl, and that their children are jt as psychologilly healthy and well adjted.
More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%). Hodg legalized gay marriage natnwi, cludg the 14 stat that did not prevly allow gays and lbians to wed.
GROWG SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE: CHANGED MDS AND CHANGG DEMOGRAPHICS
What do the Bible say about gay marriage / same sex marriage? Why are Christians so opposed to the ia of gay marriage? * how do you feel about gay marriage *
Adults (37%) favored allowg gays and lbians to wed 2009, a share that rose to 62% 2017. For stance, 45% of adults the Silent Generatn (those born between 1928 and 1945) favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, pared wh 74% of Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996).
WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
4As wh the general public, Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) are most likely to ce love as a very important reason for gettg married. Is among 29 untri and jurisdictns that allow gay and lbian upl to wed.
The first natn to legalize gay marriage was the Netherlands, which did so 2000. Sce then, several other European untri – cludg England and Wal, France, Ireland, all of Sndavia, Spa and, most recently, Atria, Germany and Malta – have legalized gay marriage. And May 2019, Taiwan beme the first untry Asia to allow gays and lbians to legally wed.