{"id":19653,"date":"2015-03-12T23:03:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T06:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19653"},"modified":"2015-03-12T04:21:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T11:21:42","slug":"why-do-they-oppose-gay-marriage-part-3-in-a-very-infrequently-updated-and-rather-repetitive-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19653","title":{"rendered":"Why Do They Oppose Gay Marriage? Part 3 In A Very Infrequently Updated And Rather Repetitive Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

From “Public Opinion, the Courts, and Same-sex Marriage: Four Lessons Learned” by Brian Powell, Natasha Yurk Quadlin and Oren Pizmony-Levy, in Social Forces (2015) volume 2 pages 3-12. (Pdf link.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Because I don\u2019t believe God intended them to be that way. No. I think it\u2019s a travesty.<\/p>\n

I follow God\u2019s commands. It\u2019s beastly.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like sickness, some sickness you know. Mental sickness, physical sickness or something, but it is mental sickness. So it\u2019s not natural.<\/p>\n

I mean, two\u2014two girlfriends can live together as long as they\u2019re friends. You know, if they don\u2019t have nobody and they\u2019re friends and they\u2019re helping each other survive, if they\u2019re friends, that\u2019s fine. But when they cross that line of becoming lovers, then it\u2019s sick, I think.<\/p>\n

Because my religion believes that\u2019s an abomination.<\/p>\n

Because that, marriage, is a sacred thing between a man and a woman that is orchestrated by God, and the Bible clearly says that homosexuality is a sin, it\u2019s perverted, and deviant. That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what promotes that kind of garbage. Well, they\u2019re sinners.<\/p>\n

I think the reason why gays and lesbians want recognition of their marriage as being a valid marriage is because they want their dysfunctional sexuality viewed as normal, when I don\u2019t think it\u2019s normal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The study authors go on:<\/p>\n

These comments are not the exceptions. The overwhelmingly most common response (over 65%) among opponents to same-sex marriage is religious or moral disapproval. This animus (( The study defines “animus” as follows: “Animus broadly entails moral disapproval of an excluded group or the characterization of a group as “inferior” or “of lesser worth.”” )) toward same-sex couples is so prevalent that it crowds out any other concerns. Importantly, fewer than five percent mention children, while even fewer (not exceeding one percent) articulate a position that even loosely corresponds with the “responsible procreation” argument or the claim that children fare better with a father and mother than with same-sex parents. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This more or less accords with my experience talking to opponents of marriage equality on the streets (gathering signatures in support of marriage equality) and, briefly, on the phones (as part of a campaign attempting to persuade opponents of marriage equality). Virtually all the opponents of marriage equality I spoke to were polite, and many were very nice to me, but they almost always said that they were against same-sex marriage because of God, or because they had a moral objection to gay people. <\/p>\n

Also, this goes along with the results of a Pew poll I’ve posted about twice before: Why do they oppose gay marriage?<\/a> and Why they really oppose same-sex marriage.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From “Public Opinion, the Courts, and Same-sex Marriage: Four Lessons Learned” by Brian Powell, Natasha Yurk Quadlin and Oren Pizmony-Levy, in Social Forces (2015) volume 2 pages 3-12. (Pdf link.) Because I don\u2019t believe God intended them to be that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-2","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19656,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19653\/revisions\/19656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}