Posts tagged “gay marriage act”
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Elizabeth Abbott in the Huffington Post: “Gay Marriage, Gay Parents: What About the Children?”
July 20, 2011
“Legalizing gay marriage has opened the floodgates of impassioned debate about its most contentious sequel: gay parenting. The classic questions — how does their parents’ gayness affect children? Do gay parents “create” homosexuality in their children? — reflect baseless homophobic fears. The children of gay parents are no likelier to be gay than the children of heterosexuals.” — Elizabeth Abbott
Tags: a history of marriage, elizabeth abbott, gay marriage act
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A History of Marriage author Elizabeth Abbott on the Gay Marriage Act
July 12, 2011
“For the first time in history, young people are growing up in the presence of legally sanctioned gay marriage (and divorce), an experience that will influence how they shape their lives in a world that is marching away from homophobia and allowing gays and lesbians to unite in marriage, to raise their children, and to expect to receive the same rights and to be subject to the same obligations as heterosexual spouses. As more gay men and women decide to marry, they will shore up the very institution whose decline the wider society mourns.” — Elizabeth Abbott
Tags: a history of marriage, elizabeth abbott, gay marriage act, huffington post, new york