Ten Reasons to Support Gay Marriage | Psychology Today

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• TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• IS FONDANT FREE SPEECH? CHEFS SHOW SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE AS COURT CASE LOOMS
• 'LOVE IS LOVE': OBAMA LDS GAY MARRIAGE ACTIVISTS HAILG 'A VICTORY FOR AMERI'
• MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE RAILS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• TMP SAYS HE'S 'FE' WH GAY MARRIAGE '60 MUT' INTERVIEW
• GEE W. BH'S FOTTEN GAY-RIGHTS HISTORY
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY: 'I AM JT NOT VERY GOOD AT BULLSHTG'
• BIN CHANGED HIS MD ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AFTER MEETG THIS HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVE
• OBAMA: GAY MARRIAGE LG IS 'A VICTORY FOR AMERI'
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• HILLARY CLTON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM
• HOW BERNIE SANRS EVOLVED ON GAY MARRIAGE
• SENATE ADVANC BILL TO CODIFY GAY MARRIAGE AS FERAL RIGHT

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs. Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment. ’ — and that is the cx of the matter: Rpect for the prciple of equal treatment, and an acknowledgment that the human yearng for love n lead to an equally human yearng for fay… mment to gay marriage puts him on the right si of history, and monstrat his willgns to embrace the future.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

New York Daily News: “In A Natnal Conversatn That Has Moved Wh Unprecented Speed, Wednday Was A Landmark: Print Obama Pronounced Himself Personally Supportive Of Gay Marriage…Obama’s Statement, Personal Though It Is, May Move The Conversatn Further.

” “In a natnal nversatn that has moved wh unprecented speed, Wednday was a landmark: Print Obama pronounced himself personally supportive of gay marriage…, speakg wh ABC News’ Rob Roberts, he explaed his shift by sayg of himself and the First Lady: ‘We are both practicg Christians, and obvly this posn may be nsired to put at odds wh the views of others, but, you know, when we thk about our fah, the thg at root that we thk about is, not only Christ sacrificg Himself on our behalf, but ’s also the goln le, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated.

Baltimore Sun: “Print Barack Obama's Announcement That He Supports Gay Marriage Is A Hearteng Development In The Campaign For Equaly, And It Is Commendable That He Ma His View Public Before The November Electn Rather Than Afterward.

IS FONDANT FREE SPEECH? CHEFS SHOW SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE AS COURT CASE LOOMS

” “Print Barack Obama's announcement that he supports gay marriage is a hearteng velopment the mpaign for equaly, and is mendable that he ma his view public before the November electn rather than afterward….

'LOVE IS LOVE': OBAMA LDS GAY MARRIAGE ACTIVISTS HAILG 'A VICTORY FOR AMERI'

Salvo not jt for beg one of the few 19% of women that form the Uned Stat Congrs, but for her amazg speech supportg gay marriage to the New York Senate when New York was still grapplg wh the ia of lettg gays marry. What has grown is a much greater acceptance of gays and lbians our culture, as well as the social and enomic eedom for gays and lbians to emerge om the closet that has nfed them for so many generatns. The recent addn of same sex mment ceremoni the Sunday New York Tim weddg and engagement announcements and the populary of shows as "Will and Grace" and "Queer Eye…" dite a shift our culture's attu toward gays and lbians.

My purpose today is not to support or fend gay and lbian marriag—ed, many gays and lbians do not want to marry—but simply suggt a theologil approach that might open up the possibily for greater Christian acceptance of, and eccliastil approval for, same sex unns. Catholic sistence: one n uphold the digny of homosexual people while not upholdg their right-to-marry; no unjt discrimatn towards homosexuals is acceptable; they mt be treated wh rpect, and their rights fend.

Bin, 77, grew up an era when homosexualy, the word routely ed at the time, was often viewed as a s and even a n slip to dated generalizatns about gay and lbian life, as he did an terview wh Anrson Cooper at an L.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE RAILS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

Talkg about what San Francis was like “15, 20 years ago, ” he said that the cy, wh s large muny of gay men and lbians, was “all about, well, you know, gay bathho, ” addg, “It’s all about round-the-clock sex.

His mg about gay men and lbians as secury risks 1973, and his support for a measure rtrictg how homosexualy was prented to schoolchildren, reflects the kd of attus that gay and lbian activists had to battle durg the early s of the movement. “As queer people, we abhor the way that Bin, his eagerns to reach across the aisle, wds up beg an apologist for homophob like Mike Pence, ” Cynthia Nixon, the actrs and activist who challenged Andrew M. 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.

TMP SAYS HE'S 'FE' WH GAY MARRIAGE '60 MUT' INTERVIEW

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. 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.

GEE W. BH'S FOTTEN GAY-RIGHTS HISTORY

Thursday night’s Log Cab Republins’ “Spir of Lln” gala the ma ballroom of Donald Tmp’s Mar-a-Lago beachont club was a joyo celebratn of gay rights and — a se of ironic timg — the historic same-sex marriage law signed by Print Joe Bin days earlier. They creded him for his iativ to bat the crimalizatn of homosexualy, his work phg for public heath iativ to bat the HIV epimic, and for appotg the first openly gay Cabet member, Grenell, as director of natnal telligence. He’s been cricized for drivg a wedge between gay and transgenr muni, and for promotg extreme relig liberty polici and executive orrs they say allowed for discrimatn agast LGBTQ people that phed the movement backwards.

VioThe Rpect for Marriage Act, which passed Congrs wh bipartisan support, mandat feral regnn for same-sex and terracial Contreras for The New York TimWASHINGTON — Print Bin signed the Rpect for Marriage Act to law on Tuday, mandatg feral regnn for same-sex marriag and ppg his own personal evolutn toward embracg gay rights over the urse of a four- polil an elaborate signg ceremony on the South Lawn, plete wh mil performanc om Cyndi Lper and Sam Smh, Mr.

Bin, who voted for the Defense of Marriage Act as a senator 1996 and wavered on lettg gay men and lbians serve the ary, the signg ceremony was an ditn of how much the print has changed when to champng L.

THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

His views on issu like abortn, gay marriage and sentencg reform — which once put him on the more nservative si of his party’s iologil spectm — now more firmly match posns that have galvanized Democrats and even many Republins over the past several years. “I do rpect and appreciate that he is someone that n adm that his views were outdated the past and that he has evolved on the subject and is now an outspoken champn and advote, ” said Kelley Robson, the print of Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights anizatn Washgton. Image source, RtersImage ptn, Pope Francis' statements are a parture om prev ments about LGBT rightsPope Francis has said that he thks same-sex upl should be allowed to have "civil unns" ma the ments, which observers say are his cleart remarks yet on gay relatnships, a documentary directed by Evgeny Afeevsky.

" He add that he "stood up for that", apparently referrg to his time as Archbishop of Buenos Air when, although opposg same-sex marriag law, he supported some legal protectns for same-sex film Franc, about the life and work of Pope Francis, premiered as part of the Rome Film well as the Pope's ments on civil unns, the film also shows him enuragg two gay men to attend church wh their three Francis's bgrapher, Aten Ivereigh, told the BBC he was "not surprised" by the latt ments. "Unr current Catholic doctre, gay relatnships are referred to as "viant behavur" 2003, the Vatin's doctral body, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, said that "rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavur or to legal regnn of homosexual unns" words but no sign of doctral changeThe remarks have set tongu waggg among Vatin-watchers - and they mark Francis's cleart support for the issue sce beg Pope.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

" he 2014 was reported that Pope Francis had exprsed support for civil unns for same-sex partners an terview, but the Holy See's prs office nied 2018, Pope Francis said he was "worried" about homosexualy the clergy, and that was "a ser matter" on this story. “Love is love, ” clared Barack Obama, the aftermath of the supreme urt’s landmark cisn on gay marriage on a speech the Whe Hoe Rose Garn, the print warmly embraced the urt’s 5-4 cisn Obergefell v Hodg as a step towards makg “our unn a ltle more perfect”. “You’ve got a ton of people who have entered to gay marriag, and would be more than a ltle chaotic for the urt to do somethg that somehow dispted those marriag that have been entered to acrdance wh the law, ” Mr.

Lears did not officially stct their members to vote no, acrdg to two people faiar wh the ternal discsns, makg the vote more a matter of personal bloc of Republins who supported the measure amounted to ls than a quarter of the party nference, but that was a far greater proportn than gay rights legislatn has drawn the past om G. Read More: Donald Tmp Nam Veep Pick on Twter Here are some of the statements and posns Pence had has related to LGBT issu: He said gay upl signaled ‘societal llapse’ In 2006, as head of the Republin Study Commtee, a group of the 100 most-nservative Hoe members, Pence rose support of a nstutnal amendment that would have fed marriage as between a man and a woman. Wdsor (which stck down a re ponent of the Defense of Marriage Act) and supports proposed “relig eedom” legislatn that crics say would allow bs to ny servic to LGBT ments about same-sex marriage break wh the longtime posn of Vice Print–elect Mike Pence, who signed a “relig eedom” bill to law 2015 but walked back some of s language after facg backlash om across the, who has spent his life liberal New York Cy, referred to LGBT Republins at the Republin Natnal Conventn and said durg his mpaign that transgenr people should e whatever bathroom they feel fortable the Republin printial primari, he said the gay marriage issue should have been left to the stat and that he would nsir appotg judg to overle the Supreme Court’s marriage cisns.

Lee tried and failed to attach chang to the bill that he said would more strongly protect relig Colls phed back, notg that the bill had received strong backg om fah-based groups, cludg the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, which historilly has aggrsively opposed gay rights. And he appoted Peter Thiel, the openly gay -founr of PayPal, to his transn Thiel, PayPal founr-turned-venture-palist, as he discs his support for Donald Tmp, at the Natnal Prs Club Washgton, LOEB / AFP - Getty ImagHowever, Tmp has also surround himself wh a number of appote and advisers wh anti-LGBTQ track rerds.

OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY: 'I AM JT NOT VERY GOOD AT BULLSHTG'

"I meant 's very important for people not to be overly cril of someone else until you've examed your own heart, " Bh told story went on to note that "As print, Bh opposed gay marriage, and Republins phed ballot measur to ban at the state level. ''As Republins seek to fd a new way forward the wake of the Supreme Court cisn strikg down DOMA, 's worth rellg that one equently discsed proposed path -- backg civil unns but not full marriage equaly -- would jt take the GOP back to where s succsful printial ndidate was , the more nservative ndidate who lost where Bh won, opposed both gay marriage and civil unns picture wh Bh was hardly one of straightforward support for gay unns, of urse.

BIN CHANGED HIS MD ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AFTER MEETG THIS HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVE

And tight rac, those voters -- who historilly have leaned heavily Republin -- may have tipped the now Bh, rponse to a journalist Zambia askg about whether gay marriage is agast Christian valu, said, "I shouldn't be takg a speck out of someone else's eye when I have a log my own. "Basilly, what says is, bee somethg like creatg a webse would be eedom of exprsn or speech, this would also — let's flip on s head — would protect a gay web signer om havg to create a bigoted, anti-LGBTQ webse.

She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported. “Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.

“Opposn to gay marriage was particularly strong the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he gdggly accepted the unsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his posn to support civil unns rather than marriage, which he would term a ‘sacred unn’, ” Axelrod wr. VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis cricized laws that crimalize homosexualy as “unjt, ” sayg God lov all his children jt as they are and lled on Catholic bishops who support the laws to wele LGBTQ people to the church.

OBAMA: GAY MARRIAGE LG IS 'A VICTORY FOR AMERI'

Gay rights advot say the antiquated laws are ed to harass homosexuals, and pot to new legislatn, such as the “Don’t say gay” law Florida, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra, as evince of ntued efforts to margalize LGBTQ people. The Uned Natns has repeatedly lled for an end to laws crimalizg homosexualy outright, sayg they vlate rights to privacy and eedom om discrimatn and are a breach of untri’ obligatns unr ternatnal law to protect the human rights of all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

In 2019, Francis had been expected to issue a statement opposg crimalizatn of homosexualy durg a meetg wh human rights groups that nducted rearch to the effects of such laws and so-lled “nversn therapi.

"In a highly ntemplative speech — much of which ntued long after his prepared remarks had end — Obama also lled on supporters of gay marriage to rpect the views of people who differ and "renew our ep mment to relig eedom.

It wasn't until 2012 that he me out favor of gay Print Bin, whose public support for gay marriage predat Obama's, said gay and lbian upl "share a love for their partners nstraed only by social stigma and discrimatory laws.

HILLARY CLTON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM

While the print has nsistently supported civil rights for gay upl — pepperg his ments wh specifics such as hospal visatn, transfer of property and Social Secury benefs — his discsn of marriage has differed. "(But) is my obligatn not only as an elected official a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to rema open to the possibily that my unwillgns to support gay marriage is misguid, jt as I nnot claim fallibily my support of abortn rights. Still, a 2007 Democratic primary bate sponsored by a gay rights group and a gay-oriented ble TV channel, he spoke stead about his support for civil unns wh "all the benefs that are available for a legally sanctned marriage" — but not for legal regnn of "marriage" between same-sex upl.

]The month of June was filled wh big moments for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr that monthlong stretch, the Supreme Court renred a sweepg cisn providg workplace protectns for gay and transgenr people. Tmp has signaled a willgns to publicly align himself wh some gay men and women, he selected a eply nservative nng mate Vice Print Mike Pence, and, as print, has systematilly dismantled protectns implemented by Print Barack Obama, pecially for transgenr over two months before Electn Day, Mr.

HOW BERNIE SANRS EVOLVED ON GAY MARRIAGE

Grenell referred to his own appotment, as well as to the print’s acceptance of the Supreme Court’s lg of gay marriage as nstutnal and his efforts to ph untri that crimalize beg gay to end those practic.

SENATE ADVANC BILL TO CODIFY GAY MARRIAGE AS FERAL RIGHT

People has ually been nnectn wh celebry or support they have given Tmp allowed gay members to his Florida club Mar-a-Lago as long as they uld pay the exorbant membership fee; he broadst donatns to groups like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis when the AIDS epimic beme a celebry e; and he publicly embraced the civil unn between the sger Elton John, someone whose mic and fame Mr. Tmp was qutned about whether he would nsir rcdg his ban on transgenr people enterg the ary by a reporter for The Washgton Bla, a gay Tmp gtured to his ch, appearg to signal the reporter’s mask was mufflg him.

* The d tensn stemmed om persistent qutng as Clton obfted on an issue that uld damage her chanc a 2016 primary but is relatively unlikely to hurt her a ntt agast a Republin, given that her aln is so much stronger on gay rights than the opposn. Would the subset of Democrats who thought 2008 opposn to gay marriage should prevent a man om beg CEO 2013 really support the 2015 printial mpaign of a woman who openly opposed gay marriage until last year? In liberal circl, now seems impossible to have red eply about human rights, to have red about gay rights, and to have objected to gay marriage, even though that was the exact posn of almost all liberals very recently.

GROSS: You know, I'm sayg, I'm sorry, I jt want to clarify what I was sayg, I was sayg that you maybe really believed this all along, you know, believed gay marriage all along, but felt for polil reasons Ameri wasn't ready yet and you uldn't say . Wh Clton wag nearby, Sanrs blamed her for supportg the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which barred feral regnn of gay marriage, argug that she is now misleadg the public about her past views when she says that she only supported the law to prevent a nstutnal amendment. Matthew V, an openly gay, evangelil Christian and the thor of “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships, ” has been actively enuragg nservative Christians to re-evaluate their beliefs about homosexualy.