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• ARE GAY MARRIAGE OPPONENTS BEG BULLIED?
• OPN A GAY MARRIAGE PROCLAMATN? BULLYG? MUCH ADO ABOUT THE WRONG THGS.
• FROM ANTI-BULLYG LAWS AND GAY MARRIAGE TO QUEER WORLDS AND JT FUTURFROM ANTI-BULLYG LAWS AND GAY MARRIAGE TO QUEER WORLDS AND JT FUTURFROM ANTI-BULLYG LAWS AND GAY MARRIAGE TO QUEER WORLDS AND JT FUTURFROM ANTI-BULLYG LAWS AND GAY MARRIAGE TO QUEER WORLDS AND JT FUTURFROM ANTI-BULLYG LAWS AND GAY MARRIAGE TO QUEER WORLDS AND JT FUTUR
• HIGH SCHOOL BULLY APOLOGIZ TO GAY FORMER CLASSMATE AFTER MARRIAGE PROPOSAL GO VIRAL
• THE END OF LIBERAL BULLYG OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• JACK CONKLG, KANSAS TEACHER, WR ON FACEBOOK THAT BEG GAY IS 'THE SAME AS MURR'

ARE GAY MARRIAGE OPPONENTS BEG BULLIED?

The lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny has long had var ephets hurled agast s members. There are the well-known “f” and “d” words thrown at those perceived as gay or lbian, rpectively.

And, of urse, the le “that’s so gay, ” which is meant to nigrate somethg or someone. Last summer, the Texas Republin Party’s platform endorsed “gay nversn therapy, ” a procre viewed as harmful and els by psychology experts.

In the last six months, a pastor Arizona published vios suggtg the way to al wh AIDS/HIV unr the Bible is to kill gays and lbians. Homosexual upl do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be nied the right to marry.

OPN A GAY MARRIAGE PROCLAMATN? BULLYG? MUCH ADO ABOUT THE WRONG THGS.

The arguments agast same-sex marriage ultimately rce to moral and religly based objectns to homosexualy. Kennedy wr that the only reason Congrs had for passg DOMA - which fed marriage as the unn of one man and one woman for the purpos of feral law - was to "disparage, " "jure, " "gra, " "mean" and "huiate" gay and lbian Amerins.

FROM ANTI-BULLYG LAWS AND GAY MARRIAGE TO QUEER WORLDS AND JT FUTURFROM ANTI-BULLYG LAWS AND GAY MARRIAGE TO QUEER WORLDS AND JT FUTURFROM ANTI-BULLYG LAWS AND GAY MARRIAGE TO QUEER WORLDS AND JT FUTURFROM ANTI-BULLYG LAWS AND GAY MARRIAGE TO QUEER WORLDS AND JT FUTURFROM ANTI-BULLYG LAWS AND GAY MARRIAGE TO QUEER WORLDS AND JT FUTUR

This past week’s news cycle has produced two narrativ:One, Barack Obama is an evolutnary, 21st-century hero who supports equaly for, Mt Romney is a gay-bashg bully mired the prev century who also supports a war on women and, oh yeah, hat ’s parse, shall we? Obama's Big Announcement that he supports gay marriage me about for the followg reasons: (a) He had no choice after Vice Print Bin said on "Meet the Prs" that he was fe wh same-sex marriage; (b) one six of Obama's mpaign bundlers, those who raise big bucks, is openly gay; (c) Obama risks nothg except the vot of those who wouldn't have voted for him last, but certaly not least, bee supportg equal treatment of all Amerins unr all legal ntracts, cludg marriage wh all s attendant rights and rponsibili, is the right thg to do.

HIGH SCHOOL BULLY APOLOGIZ TO GAY FORMER CLASSMATE AFTER MARRIAGE PROPOSAL GO VIRAL

Gay men and lbians won't fare well on that ontier given that 30 stat already have passed prohibive amendments to their state, Obama's announcement, while polil and pragmatic, was fundamentally meangls. The subtext is that sce Lber later me out as gay, Romney is a not-so-closeted those to the premis more recently arrived, a quick primer on 1965, when this occurred.

Nobody knew who was or wasn’t “gay, ” a word that wasn’t yet popular circulatn as a noun and generally meant “merry. ” Homosexualy wasn’t on most high school kids’ radar, perd.

But as long as we're talkg about thgs like gay marriage and ntraceptn — all forced to the fore by Democrats, by the way — Amerins n avert their gaze om the evolvg enomic llapse, which will be anythg but on this bate:. Vietnam was hailed as a lear on gay rights Southeast Asia after the untry’s munist ernment abolished a ban on same-sex marriage last year. But discrimatn and bullyg still afflict lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) youth the untry acrdg to lol media.

THE END OF LIBERAL BULLYG OVER GAY MARRIAGE

The move set Vietnam apart om most other untri the regn, where gay-rights movements have eher stalled or are facg growg opposn. “When they beat me, they sulted my parents nam for havg a gay son, ” he said.

Sce the first same-sex marriag took place the Netherlands 2001, more than 30 other jurisdictns have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry, mostly Europe and the Ameris. Andorra 2023EuropeParliament the small mountao untry between France and Spa voted to legalize same-sex marriage.Argenta 2010Lat Ameri-CaribbeanFirst untry Lat Ameri to allow gay and lbian upl to marry.Atralia 2017Asia-PacificVoters supported legalizg same-sex marriage by a 61.6% to 38.4% marg a non-bdg natnwi referendum.Atria 2019EuropeA urt lg 2017 eventually led to the change.Belgium 2003EuropeSend untry the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after s neighbor, the Netherlands.Brazil 2013Lat Ameri-CaribbeanAbout half of Brazil’s 27 jurisdictns had allowed same-sex marriage until a urt lg ma legal natnwi.Canada 2005North AmeriSame-sex marriage was legal a majory of Canada’s provc before Parliament passed natnal legislatn. Chile 2022Lat Ameri-CaribbeanSixth South Amerin untry to legalize same-sex marriage.Colombia 2016Lat Ameri-CaribbeanColombia’s Constutnal Court legalized same-sex marriage by a 6-3 vote.Costa Ri 2020Lat Ameri-CaribbeanFirst Central Amerin untry to legalize same-sex marriage.Cuba 2022Lat Ameri-CaribbeanChange allowg same-sex marriage was part of a broar referendum on fay law that passed by a 66.9% to 33.1% vote.Denmark 2012EuropeSame-sex marriage beme legal through a separate procs Greenland, an tonomo terrory of Denmark, 2016.Ecuador 2019Lat Ameri-CaribbeanCourt lg ma Ecuador the fifth South Amerin untry to allow gays and lbians to wed.Fland 2017EuropeThe law, passed by Parliament 2014, started out as a “cizens’ iative” – a public petn wh nearly 167,000 signatur.

JACK CONKLG, KANSAS TEACHER, WR ON FACEBOOK THAT BEG GAY IS 'THE SAME AS MURR'

It me to effect 2017.France 2013EuropeThen-French Print François Hollan signed the law after an unsuccsful urt challenge.Germany 2017EuropeLegislatn passed after then-Chancellor Angela Merkel said members of her lg Christian Democratic Unn should vote their nscience even though the party formally opposed same-sex marriage.Iceland 2010EuropeAfter the law took effect, the untry’s prime mister at the time, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, wed her longtime partner, Jónína Leósdóttir, beg one of the first people to marry unr the statute.Ireland 2015EuropeFirst untry to legalize same-sex marriage through a popular referendum, wh more than six--ten Irish voters (62%) favor.Luxembourg 2015EuropeThe bill was champned by the untry’s prime mister, Xavier Bettel, who is openly gay.Malta 2017EuropeParliament almost unanimoly voted to legalize same-sex marriage.Mexi 2022Lat Ameri-CaribbeanSame-sex marriage eventually beme legal natnally after the Supreme Court clared state bans unnstutnal 2015. Netherlands2001EuropeFirst untry to legalize same-sex marriage after Parliament passed the law December 2000.New Zealand 2013Asia-PacificFirst untry the Asia-Pacific regn to allow gays and lbians to wed.Norway 2009EuropeThe law replaced a 1993 statute permtg civil unns. Portugal 2010EuropeMeasure passed by Parliament was approved by Portugal’s Constutnal Court.Slovenia 2022EuropeFirst untry formerly munist Eastern Europe to legalize same-sex marriage.South Ai 2006Sub-Saharan AiOnly Ain untry where same-sex marriage is legal; several untri on the ntent have passed laws that ban homosexualy recent years.Spa 2005EuropeBeme the third untry globally to legalize same-sex marriage after a vote s closely divid Parliament.Swen 2009EuropeGay and lbian upl Swen prevly had been allowed to register for civil unns sce 1995.Swzerland 2022EuropeNearly two-thirds of Swiss voters (64.1%) st ballots favor of legalizg same-sex marriage a 2021 referendum.Taiwan 2019Asia-PacificA urt lg prompted a change the law that ma Taiwan the first jurisdictn Asia to perm gays and lbians to wed.Uned Kgdom 2014EuropeLegal same-sex marriage took effect Northern Ireland 2020, six years after the change England and Wal.

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.