Gay Marriage: Theologil and Moral Arguments - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Contents:

• JTICE ALO TAK AIM AT GAY MARRIAGE 'POLILLY CHARGED SPEECH'
• ZACH WAHLS, IOWA STUNT, PRO-GAY MARRIAGE SPEECH GO VIRAL AGA (VIDEO)
• IOWA TEEN’S GAY-MARRIAGE SPEECH LEADS TO SOCIAL-MEDIA CELEBRY
• TMP: ‘MY GREAT HONOR’ TO BE LLED THE ‘THE MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’
• THE PROS AND CONS OF GAY MARRIAGE ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
• DCE REF TO NCEL PRO-GAY PRIT’S SPEECH SPE LAY PROTTS
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL? NEW PRO AND CON REARCH OM
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

JTICE ALO TAK AIM AT GAY MARRIAGE 'POLILLY CHARGED SPEECH'

Hodg cisn that guaranteed gay marriage rights across the untry, as well as rtrictns aimed at rcg the spread of the ronavis and talk of rtcturg the Supreme Court and the feral judiciary more broadly. An Iowa stunt's profound pro-gay parentg, pro-marriage equaly speech has gone viral -- for the send time -- 11 months after first explod on the Inter. Though Zach Wahls, 19, ma the movg ttimony ont of the Iowa Hoe of Reprentativ back Febary, the vio has re-surfaced the blogosphere now after beg posted on 's webse clip is sweepg Twter and Facebook all over aga as many fd jt as spiratnal now as they did Febary due to the ntug bat about same-sex marriage and gay parentg the Uned Stat.

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.

ZACH WAHLS, IOWA STUNT, PRO-GAY MARRIAGE SPEECH GO VIRAL AGA (VIDEO)

Most of the world religns have at some pots their histori opposed same-sex marriage for one or more of the followg stated reasons: homosexual acts vlate natural law or dive tentns and are therefore immoral; passag sacred texts nmn homosexual acts; and relig tradn regniz only the marriage of one man and one woman as valid. The Unarian Universalist church and the gay-oriented Universal Fellowship of Metropolan Communy Church fully accepted same-sex marriage.

G., male-female, man-woman, gay-straight) and to replace the wh tegori or ntua that they believed better reflect the actual practic of humany.

It shows 19-year-old Zach Wahls as he stood before an Iowa legislative panel Febary, eloquently argug agast a state amendment that would have ma gay marriage illegal by sharg his own experience of beg raised by two moms. After highlightg his imprsive crentials for the panel — Eagle Sut, engeerg stunt at the Universy of Iowa, all-around great guy (and all-Amerin handsome to boot) — Wahls swiftly answered the qutn of whether or not a gay uple n succsfully raise a child.

IOWA TEEN’S GAY-MARRIAGE SPEECH LEADS TO SOCIAL-MEDIA CELEBRY

His claratn that, “Our fay really isn’t so different than any other Iowa fay” ronated wh gay-rights advot and opponents alike, and brought a natnal discsn of marriage equaly to the foreont once aga.

In the wty Redd chat, Wahls not only mentns that he’s workg on a book — tentatively tled My Two Moms: Everythg I Need to Know About Gay Marriage I Learned Boy Suts — but also that he was spurred to speak before the Iowa legislature bee the “strg of suicis by gay and lbian kids, ” which had happened right before his speech, served as “a huge wake-up ll. C., Augt 20, 2020 (LifeSeNews) – Print Donald Tmp has embraced the msage that he is “the most pro-gay print Amerin history, ” after his former actg Director of Natnal Intelligence (DNI) and Ambassador to Germany, self-intified homosexual Richard Grenell, ma the claim a viral new vio ad.

TMP: ‘MY GREAT HONOR’ TO BE LLED THE ‘THE MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’

Such voters have wholeheartedly praised the print for his many actns to protect the life of the unborn and fend relig liberty, but they reject the normalizatn of homosexualy Amerin culture.

The prence of LGBT polil heft wh the Republin Party may lead to a weakeng of relig liberty while further normalizg homosexualy, same-sex marriage, and transgenrism – a direct afont to Christiany and other religns. Grenell then go on to list how Tmp is the “strongt ally that gay Amerins have ever had the Whe Hoe, ” substantiatg, effect, that Tmp policy when to marriage and sexualy differs om that of Christiany. In the ad, Grenell slams Democrat printial ndidate Joe Bin’s 40-year track rerd on gay issu while toutg Tmp’s rerd, both official and implied.

“Print Tmp has done more to advance the rights of gays and lbians three years than Joe Bin did 40-pl years Washgton, ” Grenell said. “I know firsthand that Print Tmp is the strongt ally that gay Amerins have ever had the Whe Hoe, ” the former head bet member said.

THE PROS AND CONS OF GAY MARRIAGE ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

“Donald Tmp is the first print Amerin history to be pro-gay marriage om his first day office, ” Grenell clared. Grenell is a self-proclaimed nservative, Christian, pro-life, gay man who has often been the target of harsh cricism om LGBT mentators and mastream media bee of his beliefs. Log Cab Republins says s purpose is to “to make the Republin Party more clive, particularly on LGBT issu, ” which nservativ generally take to mean dilutg and eventually elimatg the GOP’s tradnal nservative stanc on marriage, homosexualy, and transgenr iology.

DCE REF TO NCEL PRO-GAY PRIT’S SPEECH SPE LAY PROTTS

The anizatn challenged the ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy agast open homosexualy the ary and lobbied Republin lawmakers to vote to repeal the policy.

Dpe Grenell’s claims that Tmp is more pro-gay than Bin, the Democrats’ 2020 platform promis, among other thgs, to enact the far-left so-lled Equaly Act; guarantee boys n enter girls’ bathrooms and vice versa; and “ban harmful ‘nversn therapy’ practic. Print Tmp has done more to advance the rights of gays and lbians three years than Joe Bin did forty pl years Washgton. As Ambassador to Germany, Print Tmp fully supported our fight to csh the homophobic and barbaric Islamic terrorist anizatn, Hezbollah, and the Iranian regime that supports them.

Print Tmp began a historic mpaign to crimalize homosexualy around the globe at the Uned Natns, where he publicly challenged the 69 untri who make beg gay a crime to change their laws. There are lns of patrtic gay Amerins who are sick of beg told to “s down and shut up” by those who want to ntrol ; Those who are aaid of our voice; Those who want to keep equaly a partisan issue. This month, Pri flags are flyg — as some of my iends our last adm- — the Obama-Bin admistratn who are openly gay — they are flyg more than — over 130 U.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL? NEW PRO AND CON REARCH OM

When a same-sex uple n be married the morng but nied a lease the afternoon for beg gay, somethg is still wrong. On June 23 of last year, I held the microphone as a gay man the New Orleans Cy Council Chamber and related a lost piece of queer history to the seven uncil members. Around that piano the 1970s Deep South, gays and lbians, whe and Black queens, Christians and non-Christians, and even early genr mori uld st asi the racism, sexism, and homophobia of the tim to fd acceptance and pannship for a moment.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

On the Sunday night of June 24, 1973, their voic were silenced a murro act of arson that claimed 32 liv and still stands as the adlit fire New Orleans history — and the worst mass killg of gays 20th century Ameri.

As 13 fire pani stggled to doe the ferno, police refed to qutn the chief spect, even though gay wns intified and brought the soot-vered man to officers idly standg by.

This spect, an ternally nflicted gay-for-pay sex worker named Rodger Dale Nunez, had been ejected om the UpStairs Lounge screamg the word “burn” mut before, but New Orleans police rebuffed the ttimony of fire survivors on the street and allowed Nunez to disappear.