Four Research Issues Relating to Same-Sex Marriage

This post gives an overview of what I have been able to learn about research studies about issues which affect the same-sex marriage debate.  I have a table below which summarizes claims and findings about four key empirical questions relevant to the same-sex marriage debate.

Queering Marriage

The current push for same-sex marriage is but a staging post in a deeper and longer-term campaign being waged against heteronormativity and heterosexism.  Heteronormativity is the assumption that heterosexuality is the norm and heterosexism is the resulting bias in favour of opposite sex relationships.