Shifting Views on the Male-Female Relationship: Same-Sex Marriage and Other Social Consequences

Authors

W. Justin Dyer

Keywords

marriage, same-sex marriage, Proclamation to the World

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The past two decades in the United States have seen the near-universal definition of marriage (between a man and woman) shift dramatically from majority acceptance to majority rejection. In 1996, 65 percent of Americans favored marriage as only between a man and a woman, but by 2015, the year the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, only 39 percent favored maintaining marriage as between a man and a woman.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Dyer, W. J. "Shifting Views on the Male-Female Relationship: Same-Sex Marriage and Other Social Consequences." Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 18, no. 2 (2017): 31-51. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/re/vol18/iss2/4