Rep. Glenn Thompson opposed same-sex marriage before gay son’s weddg - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• WHAT TO DO WHEN A GAY CHILD MARRI
• REP. SAYS NO TO GAY MARRIAGE, ATTENDS SON'S SAME-SEX WEDDG
• GOP LAWMAKER ATTEND GAY SON'S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• GAY MARRIAGE
• WHAT DO IT MEAN WHEN A GAY SON TAK HIS HBAND’S SURNAME?
• PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLIN ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• PASTOR LED SON’S GAY WEDDG, REVEALG FLT LE CHURCH
• REPUBLIN SENATOR ANNOUNC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• ‘OUR SON’ REVIEW: A MOVG, TURBULENT GAY MARRIAGE STORY WH HEART AND HUMOR – TRIBE FTIVAL
• GOP LAWMAKER OPPOSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, THEN WENT TO GAY SON’S WEDDG

WHAT TO DO WHEN A GAY CHILD MARRI

A new book, When Your Gay Or Lbian Child Marri: A Gui for Parents, nsirs that qutn. Merrill, a soclogy profsor at Clark Universy, terviewed parents ag 50 to 80 who had both homosexual and heterosexual married adult children.

One big surprise om her rearch: Parents often have better ntug relatnships wh gay upl. Gay weddgs are not whout their difficulti, particularly for parents wh mixed feelgs about their child's nuptials.

"Some parents were embarrassed bee they had not prevly let the extend fay know their child was gay, " Merrill says.

REP. SAYS NO TO GAY MARRIAGE, ATTENDS SON'S SAME-SEX WEDDG

Merrill urg parents to be acceptg, or as one of the moms she terviewed said, "You have set asi your own feelgs about homosexualy om your love for your child. Frankly, my advice to everyone who has a problem wh two people gettg married, whether 's bee they're gay or any other reason, is to md your own bs.

Days later, he toddled off to his gay son’s weddg, giftg the newlyweds wh a lifetime supply of hypocrisy. A Republin lawmaker attend his gay son’s weddg jt three days after jog the majory of his GOP lleagu votg agast a Hoe bill that would dify feral protectns for same-sex gay son of Rep.

One of five Republin senators who has already nfirmed a y vote on the bill is Rob Portman of Oh, who clared his support for same-sex marriage 2013 after his son me out as gay. On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court led that gay marriage is a right protected by the US Constutn all 50 stat. US public opn had shifted signifintly over the years, om 27% approval of gay marriage 1996 to 55% 2015, the year beme legal throughout the Uned Stat, to 61% 2019.

GOP LAWMAKER ATTEND GAY SON'S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Proponents of legal gay marriage ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, and that same-sex upl should have accs to all the benefs enjoyed by different-sex upl. On July 25, 2014 Miami-Da County Circu Court Judge Sarah Zabel led Florida’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal and stated that the ban “serv only to hurt, to discrimate, to prive same-sex upl and their fai of equal digny, to label and treat them as send-class cizens, and to em them unworthy of participatn one of the fundamental stutns of our society. As well as discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, gay marriage bans discrimated based on one’s sex.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

The Amerin Psychologil Associatn, Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and others nclud that legal gay marriage giv upl “accs to the social support that already facilat and strengthens heterosexual marriag, wh all of the psychologil and physil health benefs associated wh that support. A study found that same-sex married upl were “signifintly ls distrsed than lbian, gay, and bisexual persons not a legally regnized relatnship.

GAY MARRIAGE

A 2010 analysis found that after their stat had banned gay marriage, gay, lbian and bisexual people suffered a 37% crease mood disorrs, a 42% crease alhol-e disorrs, and a 248% crease generalized anxiety disorrs. The Congrsnal Budget Office timated 2004 that ferally-regnized gay marriage would cut the budget fic by around $450 ln a year. In July 2012 New York Cy Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that gay marriage had ntributed $259 ln to the cy’s enomy jt a year sce the practice beme legal there July 2011.

WHAT DO IT MEAN WHEN A GAY SON TAK HIS HBAND’S SURNAME?

In 2012, the Williams Instute at the Universy of California at Los Angel (UCLA) found that the first five years after Massachetts legalized gay marriage 2004, same-sex weddg expendur (such as venue rental, weddg k, etc. Relig stutns n cle to marry gay and lbian upl if they wish, but they should not dictate marriage laws for society at large.

Gay marriage is a civil right protected by the US Constutn’s mments to liberty and equaly, and is an ternatnally regnized human right for all people. 8 California banng gay marriage was “unnstutnal unr both the Due Procs and Equal Protectn Cls.

Civil unns and domtic partnerships uld provi the protectns and benefs gay upl need whout changg the fn of marriage.

PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLIN ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

2016 printial ndidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fra stated that civil unns are aquate as an equivalent to marriage: “Benefs are beg btowed to gay upl [ civil unns]… I believe we need to rpect those who believe that the word marriage has a spirual foundatn… Why n’t we rpect and tolerate that while at the same time sayg ernment nnot btow benefs unequally. Court papers filed July 2014 by attorneys fendg Arizona’s gay marriage ban stated that “the State regulat marriage for the primary purpose of channelg potentially procreative sexual relatnships to endurg unns for the sake of jog children to both their mother and their father… Same-sex upl n never provi a child wh both her blogil mother and her blogil father.

Contrary to the pro gay marriage argument that some different-sex upl nnot have children or don’t want them, even those s there is still the potential to produce children. Gay marriage has accelerated the assiatn of gays to mastream heterosexual culture to the triment of the homosexual muny. By rcg the differenc opportuni and experienc between gay and heterosexual people, this unique culture may cease to exist.

PASTOR LED SON’S GAY WEDDG, REVEALG FLT LE CHURCH

Lee Badgett, PhD, Director of the Center for Public Policy and Admistratn at the Universy of Massachetts at Amherst, stated that for many gay activists “marriage means adoptg heterosexual forms of fay and givg up distctively gay fay forms and perhaps even gay and lbian culture. Pla Ettelbrick, JD, Profsor of Law and Women’s Studi, wrote 1989, “Marriage ns ntrary to two of the primary goals of the lbian and gay movement: the affirmatn of gay inty and culture and the validatn of many forms of relatnships. LGBT activist llective Agast Equaly stated, “Gay marriage ap hetero privilege… [and] creas enomic equaly by perpetuatg a system which ems married begs more worthy of the basics like health re and enomic rights.

The lears of the Gay Liberatn Front New York said July 1969, “We expose the stutn of marriage as one of the most sid and basic staers of the system. Queer activist Anrs Zanichkowsky stated June 2013 that the then mpaign for gay marriage “tentnally and malicly eras and exclus so many queer people and cultur, particularly trans and genr non-nformg people, poor queer people, and queer people non-tradnal fai… marriage thks non-married people are viant and not tly servg of civil rights. Gay marriage is ntrary to the word of God and is patible wh the beliefs, sacred texts, and tradns of many relig groups.

REPUBLIN SENATOR ANNOUNC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE

The Bible, Levic 18:22, stat: “Thou shalt not lie wh mankd, as wh womankd: is abomatn, ” th nmng homosexual relatnships.

Two orthodox Jewish groups, the Orthodox Agudath Israel of Ameri and the Orthodox Unn, also oppose gay marriage, as do mastream Islam. In Islamic tradn, several hadhs (passag attributed to the Prophet Muhammad) nmn gay and lbian relatnships, cludg the saygs “When a man mounts another man, the throne of God shak, ” and “Sihaq [lbian sex] of women is za [illegimate sexual terurse]. Homosexualy is immoral and unnatural, and, therefore, same sex marriage is immoral and unnatural.

‘OUR SON’ REVIEW: A MOVG, TURBULENT GAY MARRIAGE STORY WH HEART AND HUMOR – TRIBE FTIVAL

Matt Barber, Associate Dean for Onle Programs at Liberty Universy School of Law, stated, “Every dividual engaged the homosexual liftyle, who has adopted a homosexual inty, they know, tuively, that what they’re dog is immoral, unnatural, and self-stctive, yet they thirst for that affirmatn. A 2003 set of guil signed by Pope John Pl II stated: “There are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God’s plan for marriage and fay… Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go agast the natural moral law. Former Arkansas ernor and Republin printial ndidate Mike Huckabee stated that gay marriage is “nsistent wh nature and nature’s law.

On May 17, 2004, the first legal gay marriage the Uned Stat was performed Cambridge, MA between Tanya McCloskey, a massage therapist, and Marcia Kadish, an employment manager at an engeerg firm.

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.

GOP LAWMAKER OPPOSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, THEN WENT TO GAY SON’S WEDDG

” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.