Gay marriage should be illegal
Some Republican lawmakers increase calls against gay marriage SCOTUS ruling
Conservative legislators are increasingly speaking out against the Supreme Court’s landmark verdict on same-sex marriage equality.
Idaho legislators began the trend in January when the state House and Senate passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision -- which the court cannot do unless presented with a case on the issue. Some Republican lawmakers in at least four other states like Michigan, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota possess followed suit with calls to the Supreme Court.
In North Dakota, the resolution passed the express House with a vote of and is headed to the Senate. In South Dakota, the state’s House Judiciary Committee sent the proposal on the 41st Legislative Day –deferring the bill to the final day of a legislative session, when it will no longer be considered, and effectively killing the bill.
In Montana and Michigan, the bills have yet to face legislative scrutiny.
Resolutions have no legal rule and are not binding rule, but instead allow legislati
The New Gay Marriage Bill
This week, Roger Severino, Heritage’s Vice President of Domestic Policy and The Anderlik Fellow, breaks down the so called “Respect for Marriage Act.”
Michelle Cordero: From The Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.
Cordero: This summer in the get up of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Congress introduced the Respect For Marriage Act.
Speaker 2: As abortion rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers continue to protest the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Residence is voting on a bill to protect marriage equality, out of terror the conservative sky-high court could revisit other landmark decisions.
Speaker 3: It simply says each articulate will recognize the other state's marriages and not decline a person the right to bond based on race, gender, sexual orientation.
Cordero: The legislation passed the House with the support of 47 Republicans. It now moves to the Senate where it would ask for just 10 Republican votes to pass.
Cordero: Final passage would mean states are no longe
Why people oppose same-sex marriage
Why do opponents of homosexual marriage really oppose it?
A UCLA psychology study published online today in the journal Psychological Science concludes that many people trust 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 experience 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 deceive 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
Why should Christians oppose state-sanctioned same-sex marriage?
I imagine this question gives voice to the thought that many Christians have: "Look, I'm with the Bible's training on marriage. I affirm the traditional view that homosexual marriage is sinful. And yet, aren’t there all sorts of things that are sinful? There’s no law against adultery. There’s no law against gossip. There are all sorts of things that we think are awful as Christians but there aren't laws against them."
But we need to be clear about what we are talking about. There are no laws any longer—the Supreme Court struck them down ten or so years ago—against lgbtq+ behavior. There are no laws against two persons of the same-sex calling their relationship any number of things. There are no laws against people having ceremonies, or ceremonies that happen in churches for any manner of relationships.
What we are talking about is whether or not the government should privilege the relationship of two persons regardless of sex—or the extension of that is three or more or however many persons, regardless of sex—