Should a Christian attend the weddg of a gay uple? |

Contents:

• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• WOULD YOU ATTEND A GAY WEDDG?
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• TURNS OUT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE CASE MAY BE BASED ON A LIE
• WHY DO GAY WEDDGS CHANGE THE WORLD?
• SHOULD A CHRISTIAN ATTEND THE WEDDG OF A GAY UPLE?

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

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. 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.

WOULD YOU ATTEND A GAY WEDDG?

As well as discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, gay marriage bans discrimated based on one’s sex. 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.

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. Gay marriag brg fancial ga to feral, state, and lol ernments, and boost the enomy. The Congrsnal Budget Office timated 2004 that ferally-regnized gay marriage would cut the budget fic by around $450 ln a year.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

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.

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.

TURNS OUT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE CASE MAY BE BASED ON A LIE

8 California banng gay marriage was “unnstutnal unr both the Due Procs and Equal Protectn Cls.

WHY DO GAY WEDDGS CHANGE THE WORLD?

Civil unns and domtic partnerships uld provi the protectns and benefs gay upl need whout changg the fn of marriage. In upholdg gay marriage bans Kentucky, Michigan, Oh and Tennsee on Nov.

SHOULD A CHRISTIAN ATTEND THE WEDDG OF A GAY UPLE?

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.