Anti gay marriage protest america

Leaders of the National Front for the Family, which organised the march, state they are not opposed to LGBT rights.

But they debate that Mexico has fallen victim of an ideological battle that threatens family values and the institution of marriage.

"In a democratic society you cannot impose a unattached thought," said Mario Alberto Romo, a spokesman for the group.

Demonstrators are calling for a encounter with Mr Pena Nieto to debate the issue.

LGBT rights supporters turned up at the rally to show their backing for Mr Pena Nieto's suggestion to legalise gay marriage, but police said there were no clashes.

Some of them carried banners that read: "I'm gay and I'm a Catholic" and "We also include families".

Four Latin American countries have already legalised same-sex marriage: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and most recently Colombia.

GAY MARRIAGE leads to "the deterioration of marriage and the family" and "societal collapse." Keeping same-sex couples from marrying isn't discrimination, but simply enforcing "God's idea." These are just a few of the hideous statements by Vice President and religious bigot Mike Pence about marriage equality.

And it doesn't stop there. In 2015, Trump's second-hand man signed a "religious freedom" law as governor of Indiana that gave permission to businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ people.

During his short time in office, Trump has already come close to putting into action a similar executive instruction, but he was forced to back down after a series of humiliating defeats on other issues and pressure from LGBTQ organizations.

With Trump and Pence controlling the White Residence and a Republican majority in Congress, it's understandable that millions of LGBTQ people, their family, friends and supporters are fearful that rights won in recent years will be rolled back.

There's no predicting what will happen in the next four years, but with LGBTQ rights under threat in the Trump era, it's significant to look back at how marriage equality was won--and

The gay people against gay marriage

For many years, the conservative institution of marriage was never on the gay campaign agenda, says activist Yasmin Nair, who co-founded a organization provocatively named Against Equality. But it became an objective in the premature 1990s - regretfully, in her view - when the movement emerged from the seismic shock of the Aids epidemic, depleted of political energy.

But same-sex attracted people who are in favour of same-sex marriage feel anything short of marriage is not equality.

You rarely notice arguments against it by gay people themselves, says Stampp Corbin, publisher of magazine LGBT Weekly, who sees robust parallels with the civil rights movement.

"I'm African American and there were many things society stopped us from doing. When we were slaves we couldn't marry, we couldn't marry outside our race and most notably, we couldn't share facilities with white people.

"So when I listen LGBT people saying the same thing: 'I don't reflect gay and womxn loving womxn people should obtain married', is it different from slaves saying: 'I don't think slaves should have the ability to get married'?

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History of the Anti-Gay Movement Since 1977

Read a timeline of the radical right's thirty-year crusade against homosexuality.

1977

Born-again singer Anita Bryant campaigns to overturn an anti-discrimination law protecting same-sex attracted men and lesbians in Dade County, Fla. Inspired by her victory, Bryant founds the first national anti-gay group, Save Our Children, drawing unprecedented attention to gay issues and motivating gay groups to organize in response.

James Dobson, author of 1969 pro-spanking book Dare To Discipline, founds Focus on the Family in Arcadia, Calif. Focus will move to Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1991, become America’s wealthiest fundamentalist ministry, and spearhead the campaign against homosexual marriage.

1978

Gay activist Harvey Milk, elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, is assassinated on Nov. 27 (along with Mayor George Moscone) by right-wing religious zealot Dan White, a former city supervisor who had resigned in protest after the board passed a gay-rights ordinance.

John Birch Culture trainer and “family activist” Tim LaHaye publishes The Unhappy Gays (later retitled What Everyone Should Understand About Homosex

Mass. Pro-Gay Marriage Activists Link Protests Outside Supreme Court

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With its term ending in June, the U.S. Supreme Court has two months to decide whether the Constitution gives same-sex couples the right to wed and whether gay marriages should be allowed in all states.

As the tall court heard arguments here Tuesday, a crowd gathered outside. Among the throngs of people were several individuals from Massachusetts — the first state to legalize same-sex marriage — and some reflected on their historical ties to the fight over lgbtq+ marriage.

For John Ward, it was a long journey to the line on the sidewalk in front of the Supreme Court. He'd come from San Francisco, but really, his trip began when Ward came to Boston in the 1970s.

It was in Boston where he would found the group Lgbtq+ & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, GLAD. He also hosted a program called "Gay Way" on WBUR until the longtime president of Boston University, John Silber, decided to grab it off the air.

"I was just starting out. I had an office in Park Square, 300 bucks a month," Ward said. "And [Silber] was determined t