{"id":4151,"date":"2013-04-01T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T17:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:49:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:49:19","slug":"moving-on-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2013\/04\/01\/moving-on-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving on Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One sign, made to be displayed outside the Supreme Court as it hears arguments on DOMA and Prop 8, hearkens back to the days of arguments about interracial marriage, using a photo of Mildred and Richard Loving, who famously won their case, Loving v. Virginia, before the Supreme Court. Photo by Reed Probus via flickr.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments regarding California’s Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that became a constitutional amendment legally defining marriage as an institution solely for the benefit of one man and one woman. On March 26, Justice Anthony Kennedy suggested the Court might simply dismiss the case, Hollingsworth v. Perry<\/i>, without a ruling, so as not to dive into \u201cuncharted waters,\u201d particularly when the Court is considering another, related case.<\/p>\n

Minnesota Public Radio<\/a> invited Kathleen Hull<\/a>, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota, to discuss the Court\u2019s apparent willingness to side-step the case. She cited the results of a new PEW study showing that the younger generation was about 75% in favor of legalizing same sex marriage. She confessed:<\/p>\n

Increasingly I find it difficult to engage the 18-22 year-olds on the same-sex issue. They are bored by it\u2026 They don’t know what there is to talk about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hull told MPR that California\u2019s law not only lags behind public attitudes, but also behind the business and entertainment worlds. She also refutes claims that there isn’t enough data to rule on the subject if it\u2019s considered through the lens of child-rearing:<\/p>\n

I was a little stunned when one of the justices said something to the effect of “yeah, we don’t have any information on this.” [\u2026] We have decades of research now on the effects of same-sex parenting on children and it is all kind of in the same direction: That there is no difference from being raised by heterosexuals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In fact, there is such a great deal of research in this area that the American Sociological Association went on to file an amicus curiae<\/i><\/a> (that is, a \u201cFriend of the Court\u201d) brief outlining the social scientific consensus around the quality of parenting across different family forms. Interestingly, Justice Scalia then went on the record stating that there is no<\/i> such consensus<\/a>; he appears to have taken his cue from another\u00a0amicus<\/i> brief coauthored by Mark Regenerus<\/a>, who has stirred up controversy with his own findings that children of homosexual parents do not<\/i> fare as well as those raised by heterosexual couples. Clearly, this fight isn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments regarding California’s Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that became a constitutional amendment legally defining marriage as an institution solely for the benefit of one man and one woman. On March 26, Justice Anthony Kennedy suggested the Court might simply dismiss the case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, without a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,85],"tags":[70,3432,1430],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inequality","category-politics","tag-family","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-supreme-court"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}