what is same-sex marriage
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Unpacking the Roles of Religion and Partisanship on Support for Same Sex Marriage: Evidence from South Korea
We ask to what extent opposition to same sex marriage in South Korea is driven by Protestant identification and how this differs from Catholic and non Christian views. Furthermore, is there a separate demographic, partisan or ideological influence beyond that captured by religious identity? Analysis of the 2016 Korean General Social Survey (KGSS) data finds not only clear perceptual distinctions between Protestants versus Buddhists and Catholics, but that partisan distinctions endure, even after controlling for the more popular non LGBT specific anti discrimination legislation. In addition, younger and female respondents were more supportive of legalization, while education did not have the same effect as in the broader LGBT literature.
Timothy S Rich Andi Dahmer Isabel Eliassen
150887853
'In this house we believe in fairness and kindness' Post liberation politics in Australia's same sex marriage postal survey
In December 2017, Australia legalized same sex marriage (SSM) following a 13 year ban and a drawn out postal survey on marriage equality that saw campaigners mobilize for a 'Yes' vote on a non binding poll. Through a discourse analysis of the Yes and No campaigns' television and online video advertisements, we demonstrate how the Yes campaign was symptomatic of what we call a 'post liberation' approach that saw SSM as the last major hurdle for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) politics. While the No campaign linked SSM to gender fluidity, transgender identity, and sex education programmes, in contrast the Yes campaign limited itself to narratives around love and marriage. In not attending to the link between sex, gender and sexuality, the Yes campaign narrowed the possibilities of the debate, preserving existing White heteronormative expectations of gender and sexuality. We contrast the debate that unfolded during the postal survey to the Australian Gay Liberation movement of the 1970s, the latter of which was able to successfully and radically challenge similarly homophobic campaigns. Rather than relying on 'palatable' or mainstream ideas of equality, love and fairness, Gay Liberation in Australia embraced the radical potential of LGBTIQ activism and presented a utopian, optimistic vision of a transformed future. Here we suggest that we can learn from the history of campaigns around sexuality, to understand what was 'won' in the SSM debate, and to better develop strategies for change in the future.
Sexualities
Amy Thomas Hannah McCann Geraldine Fela
219435402
Boys in Dresses: Same sex Marriage, Children and the Politics of Equivalence
ABSTRACT This reflective article considers the ways in which children were symbolically deployed to configure the politics in both the 'Yes' and 'No' campaigns in the recent Australian same sex marriage postal survey. I suggest that the politics of equivalence, whereby the equality of queer relationships was rhetorically argued by suggesting they were 'the same' enabled an associated discursive attachment to the nuclear family, centred on the possibility for reproduction and the potential existence of children. As a result, there was a troublesome convergence in both the 'Yes' and 'No' campaigns in the cry, 'what about the children? While the concern was clearly levelled from very different political standpoints, the attachment of the politics of futurity to children, I suggest, is a key part of why the mainstream 'Yes' campaign focused so narrowly on the amendment to marriage legislation to the neglect of a broader queer politics and more diverse queer cultures and expressions.
Jessica Gerrard
226024735
Same sex marriage and unions a comparative legal analysis between Europe and the United States
What is a marriage? Legal history and different sources of law. International covenants and case law on same sex unions. The council of Europe, the European Union and national constitutional system on same sex union and marriage. United States legislation and case law on same sex unions and marriage.
Gloria Marsano
224916243
What are the debates on same sex marriage and on the recognition of transwomen as women about? On anti descriptivism and revisionary analysis
ABSTRACT In recent years, debates on same sex marriage and the recognition of transwomen as women have been raging. These debates often seem to revolve around the meaning of, respectively, the word 'marriage' and 'woman' That such debates should take place might be puzzling. It seems that if debates on gay and transgender rights revolve around the meaning of these words, then those in favor of same sex marriage and of the recognition of transwomen as women have no room left to maneuver. However, prima facie, the pro and anti in both cases, have genuine disagreements over the meaning of these words: though the analyses of revisionary theorists are revisionary, they are analyses. Sally Haslanger and other philosophers in her wake have appealed to an anti descriptivist externalist view of meaning to provide the conceptual foundations of this practice of revisionary theorizing: revisionary analyses bring to light what, unbeknownst to us, these words mean. In this paper, I argue that a descriptivist externalist view should be preferred instead. My argument rests on the thesis that what is contested in these debates is the (descriptive) meaning of the words 'marriage' and 'women' as used in the law.
Brice Bantegnie
203107461
The future is queer kids: Queering the homonormative temporalities of same sex marriage
Same sex marriage is emblematic of a crisis of vision in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender non binary, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) politics, according to some queer theorists. Through the concept of homonormativity, Duggan insightfully criticizes same sex marriage politics as spatially privatizing and depoliticizing queer difference. Brown argues, however, that Duggan herself reifies homonormativity. He calls for theorists to imagine the queer potential in non fixed spatial relations. Given Duggan and Brown's focus on spatiality, this article approaches queer imaginations beyond homonormativity from a temporal perspective: I ask what transformational potential same sex marriage holds to queer heteronormative and homonormative temporalities. I argue that same sex marriage may not only queer the public/private dichotomy, but also subvert the heteronormative temporality of straight time. Straight time produces identities, spaces, and times as fixed, pre political, and timeless, and is constructed against queer time in which identities, spaces, and times are non fixed, political, and sociohistorically constructed. By theorizing straight/queer time as politically produced through the reproductive relation between adulthood and Childhood, I repoliticize the temporalities of homonormative and queer imaginaries and recognize children as queer citizens of a queer future. Same sex marriage may therefore produce two previously untheorized images of queer potential: the Child queered by their parents, and the Child queered by their sexuality.
Politics
Callum Stewart
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What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said
Professor Smith writes one of eight opinions in WHAT OBERGEFELL V. HODGES SHOULD HAVE SAID: THE NATION'S TOP LEGAL EXPERTS REWRITE AMERICA'S SAME SEX MARRIAGE DECISION (Jack Balkin, ed. Yale Univ. Press, forthcoming 2020) In this chapter, Smith concurs with the majority opinion recognizing the right of same sex couples to marry under the suspect classification and fundamental rights strands of equal protection law. She offers an independent, and heretofore unrecognized, basis for striking down same sex marriage bans: they violate the children of same sex couples' equal protection rights. Smith's opinion interprets five landmark Supreme Court decisions anew Levy v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 68 (1968) Weber v. Aetna Casualty Surety Company, 406 U.S. 164 (1972) Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982) and United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744 (2013) as children's rights cases. Read collectively, this children's equality law prohibits government practices that create or maintain a caste system by excluding a group of children from state granted benefits, resources, and privileges. Smith finds that same sex marriage bans run afoul of the children of same sex couples' equal protection guarantee because they impose lifetime hardships on them for matters beyond their control, relegating them to a lower caste status.
Helen M Alvare Jack M Balkin William N Eskridge Katherine M Franke Robert P George Sherif Girgis John C Harrison Andrew M Koppelman Melissa E Murray Douglas NeJaime Reva B Siegel Catherine E Smith Jeremy Waldron
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Exploring Discourse of Same sex Marriage in Taiwan: A Case Study of Near Synonym of HOMOSEXUAL in Opposing Stances
This research explores the intense conflict of the legalization of same sex marriage in Taiwan by studying how the near synonyms denoting homosexual, Tong Zhi tongzhi and Tong Xing Lian tongxinglian, are used by the opposing stances. Two research questions related to lexical semantics are addressed, i.e. what the semantic difference of these two lexical items is and how these two are characteristically used by each stance. Collocational analysis with self compiled corpora is the primary method in this study. For the first question, it is found that the meanings of the pair can be differentiated along an internal external axis. With regards to the second one, it is discovered that, the opponents of same sex marriage are inclined to externalize the innateness of homosexual, whereas the supporters tend to reduce the distinctiveness of homosexuality and call for the universality of human rights by the strategies of juxtaposing and compounding.
PACLIC
Hank Hung Shukai Hsieh
149863437
Religious Individualism and Moral Progressivism: How Source of Religious Authority Is Related to Attitudes About Abortion, Same Sex Marriage, Divorce, and Premarital Sex
Abstract Many hypothesize that religious individualism is associated with progressive moral attitudes. Our analysis of data from US adults from the fourth wave of the Baylor Religion Survey finds that those who navigate moral conjunctures as religious individualists, knowing what God wants them to do "in their hearts" or through "human reason," are more likely than those who draw on institutional religious sources of authority, like the Bible or religious teachings, to express progressive attitudes on issues of same sex marriage, divorce, and premarital sex, but not abortion. Our findings indicate that perceived sources of moral authority further explain differences in moral attitudes within the population of religious decision makers, specifically with regard to issues that are culturally in flux. This supports the idea that religious individualism, even among religious individuals and within religiously conservative traditions, makes people more accepting of contemporary cultural trends in morality.
Politics and Religion
Jeremy E Uecker Paul S Froese
155228453
MAKING SENSE OF THE ANTI SAME SEX MARRIAGE MOVEMENT IN FRANCE
This article examines the political style and rhetoric of the Manif pour tous (MPT) the main organization opposing same sex marriage in France, from summer 2013 to the present. It exposes how the MPT's style and rhetoric differ from those of their American counterparts, and what this tells us about the different strategies of political movements in France and the United States generally. It is based on an analysis of the language used by activists whom I interviewed in 2014 and 2015 and on a discourse analysis of the MPT's website, Facebook page, Twitter feed, and press releases since 2013. This analysis of the distinctive features of the MPT brings to light underlying concerns about French identity in the face of globalization. In other words, for the MPT and its members, what is at stake is not just same sex marriage but the very definition of Frenchness.
French Politics, Culture Society
Scott Gunther