Extra-Process-9394 t1_ir5zvjd wrote on October 5, 2022 at 4:15 PM

Reply to comment by squngy in Slovenia legalises same-sex marriage and adoption by citytiger

History has shown that making something like gay marriage legal leads to a large increase in acceptance. Perhaps they are not causal, just correlated, but if you look at gay marriage acceptance in the USA you can see it increased a lot right after being legalized.

squngy t1_ir6h4hv wrote on October 5, 2022 at 6:06 PM

I feel like a nuance has been missed here, which is probably my fault.

Legally, there was a distinction between a "union" and "marriage" and that was not right and it is good that they can "marry" now, but even before, most people in casual conversation would consider the people in a union to be married.

If you met 2 people in a union they would almost certainly introduce them selves as husbands or wives.

There was effectively already same sex marriage, except in legalise and some articles didn't make a distinction, for example

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-slovenia-rights-idUSKBN1630U0

Miltrivd t1_ir88vf8 wrote on October 6, 2022 at 1:38 AM

People do get it, but having restrictions and a different legal name makes it not the same, these things are known to everyone and creates segmentation, even if by a little. Equalizing name and rights officializes acceptance and nullifies legal differences, this helps further normalization making the homophobic reactions more fringe given they are against something that's official, normal, established.

It's not like people think gay couples were actively shunned and this will magically change things overnight, but as it had happened everywhere else where marriages rights get normalized, it also helps normalizing acceptance even further.