Same-Sex Marriage,Korean Christians,and the Challenge of Democratic Engagement |
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Authors: | Joseph Yi Joe Phillips Shin-Do Sung |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Political Science, Hanyang University, Seoul, 133-791, South Korea 2. Department of Global Studies, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, South Korea 3. Department of Public Administration, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, 130-791, South Korea
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Abstract: | The contest over gay rights (e.g., same-sex marriage) dramatizes the clash between increasingly nonwhite (“majority-world”), religious conservatives and mostly white, progressives. It renews longstanding debate about the compatibility of religious conservatism and liberal, pluralistic democracy. A study of one influential group, Korean Christians, shows that the younger, western-educated generation generally combines religious conservatism and political liberalism; they are much more likely to espouse liberal-democratic principles and to participate in the larger, plural society than the older, immigrant generation. However, the polarizing politics of gay rights partly reverses the generational pattern: the historically insular, first generation participate more in mainstream politics, while some western-educated, second-generation Korean Christians become intolerant and isolated from elite-educated circles. Ideological minorities self-segregate themselves in the face of hostile, energized majorities, whether progressives in Korean Christian circles or conservatives in secular, educated ones. Public deliberation on same-sex marriage depends on whether it becomes viewed like the clear-cut issue of interracial marriage or the more ambiguous one of abortion. |
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