Wednesday, October 22, 2008

So, What’s Really at Stake in the Gay Marriage Debate? Part Two

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/10/21/so-whats-really-at-stake-in-the-gay-marriage-debate-part-two/

[Anglican Mainstream] 22 Oct 2008--or Part One read HERE.

Same-sex marriage is, for now, legal in three of fifty states in the United States. Beyond our borders, it is legal in the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, South Africa, Canada and Norway. This represents a very small percentage of the world’s population. Same-sex marriage is, by any measure, the exception rather than the rule. Even when legalized civil unions and domestic partnerships are thrown into the mix, the countries that consider same-sex unions and heterosexual marriages to be equal before the law represent a small percentage of the world’s nations.

Keep that in mind when you observe the media’s coverage of the issue. By and large, the mainstream media have presented opposition to same-sex marriage as the odd and out-of-step position and support for same-sex marriage as the mainstream assumption.

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