Should Gay Marriage Be Legal? 6 Pros and Cons

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
• WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
• GAY MARRIAGE BE THE LAW OF THE LAND AMERI
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• GAY MARRIAGE

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, is the marriage of people of the same sex or genr. Gay marriag ma progrs the 1980s, when Berkeley, California, pass the untry’s first domtic partnership law.

WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?

California and Connecticut legalized gay marriage 2008, followed by Iowa, Vermont, and New Hampshire. On November 6, 2012, Mae, Maryland, and Washgton beme the first stat to legalize gay marriage through a popular vote.

Dpe this, not all stat are abidg and have enacted nstutnal or statutory bans on gay marriage known as “Defense of Marriage” acts. In a landmark cisn, the ne jtic of the US Supreme Court led that the US Constutn guarante marriage as a right for all, cludg gay and lbian upl. Wrg for the urt, Jtice Kennedy said gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry: “no unn is more profound than marriage, for embodi the hight ials of love, fily, votn, sacrifice, and fay, ” he wrote.

It also requir stat and the feral ernment to rpect gay marriag the stat where is the seven years sce the Obergefell cisn, same-sex marriag have bee more mon, but the chang have differed by has the number of same-sex marriag changed over time? In the years after Massachetts beme the first state to legally regnize same-sex marriage 2004, gay marriage legalizatn efforts picked up other 2011, there were around 168, 000 married same-sex upl the US.

GAY MARRIAGE BE THE LAW OF THE LAND AMERI

By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged.

As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996. Obergefell origated wh a gay uple, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, who were married Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal, but whose marriage was not regnized by Oh thori. Even if the urt strik down Obergefell v Hodg, the 2015 se that legalised gay marriage Ameri, the effects of dog so would be much rced.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

Th the law strik a balance between majory opn, which favours gay marriage by a wi marg, and a mory who object on relig grounds.

The approach taken the Rpect for Marriage Act, where both sis work to addrs the other’s worst fears, is the right advance of gay marriage ntas lsons for brgg about polil change more generally a system that was signed to slow down. Then, slowly, Amerins realised they had an uncle, nt or , whom they loved and wanted to be happy, who also happened to be gay. Gay people were Democrats and Republins: among the most high-profile gay women the untry is the dghter of a particularly flty Republin vice-print.

Two years ago an openly gay man, Pete Buttigieg, ran a mpaign to be the Democratic printial ndidate.

GAY MARRIAGE

Meanwhile, public support for gay marriage has steadily creased om 27% Gallup’s polls 1996 to 71% ma thgs easier for people mpaigng for gay marriage. Rather than prent gay rights as a revolutnary change they emphasised a mment to stutns beloved of nservativ, askg for the right to marry and to serve the armed forc whout hidg their sexualy.