Why cant people acceot gay marriage
Same-Sex Marriage: Everyone Should Have the Right to Love
Dominique Davis
Throughout my existence, I have been lucky enough to get the chance to know very determined and whole-hearted people. One of the most driven people I perceive would have to be my competitive volleyball coach from high school. Every single day before practice, he would gather us all in a circle and firmly speak, “You girls must always fight for what you have faith in, and never back down from a challenge.” While he told us this every morning for several years, none of us ever realized that our coach too had been fighting a very strenuous battle for years – trying to marry his male partner. I can honestly say that I have never seen two people so in admire and happy with each other. Due to the truth that they are a gay couple, they are not able to complete the one thing that they long for to do, which is get married. Although it is one of the toughest battles to fight, my coach still continues to fight. He will fight and linger hopeful until he gets the justice that he and all other lgbtq+ couples deserve.
Gay marriage has been, and will continue to be an emotional debate. But why is it that so many Americans
What the Same Sex Marriage Bill Does and Doesn't Do
The U.S. Senate passed landmark legislation this week enshrining protections for alike sex and interracial marriages in federal law in a bipartisan vote that marked a dramatic turnaround on a once highly divisive issue.
The Senate action marks a major hurdle for the legislation, which President Biden has said he will write into law pending a vote in the Home of Representatives.
Leonore F. Carpenter, a Rutgers Law School professor who has served as an LGBTQA rights attorney, explains what the Respect for Marriage Act accomplishes, and what is does not.
What exactly does the Respect for Marriage Execute do to protect homosexual marriage?
The Act does a few important things.
First, it repeals the federal Defense of Marriage Act. That law was passed in 1996, and it prohibited the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages that had been validly entered into under a state’s law. It also gave the green light to states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages from other states.
Next, it prohibits states from refusing to recognize same-sex marriages that are validly entered into in a other state. It’s also impo
With Trump’s removal of federal protections for transgender students, debate over LGBTQ rights rage again across the U.S.
Despite these disagreements, Americans are relatively liberal compared to countries across the nature, where the consequences for gay or transgender citizens are far more dire.
In Europe and here in the Americas, only a minority of people consider that homosexuality is never justified. The percentage increases in places like Russia, India and China. In Africa, the Middle East and parts of Southeast Asia, attitudes turn into even more conservative.
Why are there such big differences in public opinion about homosexuality? My publication, “Cross-National Public Perspective about Homosexuality,” shows that a key part of the answer comes in understanding how national characteristics shape individuals’ attitudes.
Within countries, a similar set of demographic characteristics care for to influence how people feel about homosexuality. For example, women tend to be more liberal than men. Older people tend to be more conservative than younger ones. Muslims are more likely to disapprove of homosexuality than Catholics, Jews and mainline Protestants.
Just enjoy people, countries too ha
Why history says gay people can’t marry…nor can anyone else*
(*unless they have kids of their own)
By Helen Berry
I happened to be in New York at the end of June this year when the State legislature passed the Marriage Equality Perform to legalise same-sex marriage. By coincidence, it was Gay Pride weekend, and a million people waved rainbow flags in the streets of Manhattan, celebrating this landmark ruling in the campaign for same-sex attracted rights, and I was one of them.
What struck me as a visitor from the UK – where civil partnerships for same-sex couples have been legal since 2004 – was the way in which gay marriage is still such a divisive issue in American politics. The subject continues to divide the nation, and has been revived, rather than resolved, by carried on state-by-state rulings, Supreme Court challenges, and high-octane political rhetoric.
To cite just one recent example, Proposition 8 (the “California Marriage Protection Act”) was an amendment to the California constitution passed in November 2008 defending heterosexual marriage as the only legitimate form of wedding. The amendment stated that “gays…do not have the right to redefine marriage for everyone else”. Followin
Why people oppose same-sex marriage
Why do opponents of gay marriage really oppose it?
A UCLA psychology study published online today in the journal Psychological Science concludes that many people consider gay men and women are more sexually promiscuous than heterosexuals, which they may fear could threaten their own marriages and their way of life.
“Many people who oppose gay marriage are uncomfortable with casual sex and perceive threatened by sexual promiscuity,” said David Pinsof, a UCLA graduate student of psychology and lead author of the study.
Such people often marry at a younger age, have more children and believe in traditional gender roles in which men are the breadwinners and women are housewives.
“Sexual promiscuity may be threatening to these people because it provides more temptations for spouses to break trust on one another,” Pinsof said. “On the other hand, for people who are comfortable with women being more economically independent, marrying at a later age and having more sexual partners, sexual promiscuity is not as much of a threat because women do not rely on men for financial support.” The researchers m