Who Still Opposes Gay Marriage, and Why
Pacific Standard:
People who are particularly committed to the idea of marriage and family as the bedrock of society tend to be opposed to gay marriage. On the face of it, this seems counterintuitive, even hypocritical: Why would you resist the extension of an institution you revere?
Well, newly published research suggests a tired stereotype deserves much of the blame. Those same fiercely monogamous people, it finds, tend to be predisposed to associate gays with promiscuity.
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“Our ideas may shed light on the unusually rapid increase in support for same-sex marriage that has occurred throughout the past decade,” write psychologists David Pinsof and Martie Haselton of the University of California–Los Angeles.
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Comments
I am opposed to gay marriage because it against the will of God, which, I suppose, qualifies as a “tired stereotype”. There is no sin in being gay. The sin is in
acting upon those feelings.
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