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Same-Sex Marriage Stance: American Psychoanalytic Association
"Because marriage is a basic human right and an individual personal choice, RESOLVED, the state should not interfere with same-gender couples who choose to marry and share fully and equally in the rights, responsibilities, and commitment of civil marriage."
Same-Sex Marriage Stance: American Psychiatric Association
“Same sex couples experience several kinds of state-sanctioned discrimination that can adversely affect the stability of their relationships and mental health."
Same-Sex Marriage Stance: American Anthropological Association
"The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution.”
Announcing Your Union in the News
In a significant sign of growing public acceptance of commitment ceremonies, The New York Times announced Aug. 18, 2002, that it would begin listing same-sex ceremonies alongside weddings and other celebrations in the newly named “Weddings/Celebrations” section of their Sunday paper.
Religions that Bless Same-Sex Unions
While many religious bodies unfortunately do not yet bless same-sex unions, a growing number do.