Gay Marriage and the Social Constctn of Social “Problems” - Soclogil Imag

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE AND SOCIAL ISSU
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• PART 5. GAY MARRIAGE: THE ARGUMENTS PEOPLE HEAR ABOUT A MAJOR SOCIAL ISSUE

GAY MARRIAGE

More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%). Homosexual upl g vro fertilizatn (IVF) or surrogate mothers liberately create a class of children who will live apart om their mother or father. Although homosexual men are ls likely to have children than lbians, homosexual men are and will be raisg children.

A number of leadg profsnal associatns have asserted that there are "no differenc" between children raised by homosexuals and those raised by heterosexuals. Soclogist Steven Nock of the Universy of Virgia, who is agnostic on the issue of same-sex civil marriage, offered this review of the lerature on gay parentg as an expert wns for a Canadian urt nsirg legalizatn of same-sex civil marriage:.

GAY MARRIAGE AND SOCIAL ISSU

Evince suggts children raised by homosexuals are more likely to experience genr and sexual disorrs.

Although the evince on child out is sketchy, do suggt that children raised by lbians or homosexual men are more likely to experience genr and sexual disorrs. " Stacey also observ that children of lbians are more likely to report homoerotic attractns.

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

Neverthels, th studi give some crence to nservative ncerns about the effects of homosexual parentg.

In the first edn of his book fense of same-sex marriage, Virtually Normal, homosexual mentator Andrew Sullivan wrote: "There is more likely to be greater unrstandg of the need for extramaral outlets between two men than between a man and a woman. It is plsible to spect that legal regnn of homosexual civil marriage would have siar nsequenc for the stutn of marriage; that is, would further stabilize the norm that adults should sacrifice to get and stay married for the sake of their children. Homosexual civil marriage would make even easier than already is for men to ratnalize their abandonment of their children.

If the distctive sexual patterns of "mted" gay upl are any ditn (see above), is unlikely that homosexual marriage would domtite men the way that heterosexual marriage do. It is also extremely unlikely that the blogil effects of heterosexual marriage on men would also be found homosexual marriage. Th, gay activists who argue that same-sex civil marriage will domtite gay men are, all likelihood, clgg to a foolish hope.

PART 5. GAY MARRIAGE: THE ARGUMENTS PEOPLE HEAR ABOUT A MAJOR SOCIAL ISSUE

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. 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.

Scholars and the general public beme creasgly terted the issue durg the late 20th century, a perd when attus toward homosexualy and laws regulatg homosexual behavur were liberalized, particularly wtern Europe and the Uned issue of same-sex marriage equently sparked emotnal and polil clash between supporters and opponents.

Cultur that openly accepted homosexualy, of which there were many, generally had nonmaral tegori of partnership through which such bonds uld be exprsed and socially regulated. Relig and secular expectatns of marriage and sexualy Over time the historil and tradnal cultur origally rerd by the lik of Bachofen and Man slowly succumbed to the homogenizatn imposed by lonialism. In other s, the cultural homogeney supported by the domant relign did not rult the applitn of doctre to the civic realm but may nohels have fostered a smoother seri of discsns among the cizenry: Belgium and Spa had legalized same-sex marriage, for stance, spe official opposn om their predomant relig stutn, the Roman Catholic Church.