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A uple's legal battle may prage future nflicts between relig groups and gay upl who want to get married. As same-sex upl California beg gettg legally married on Monday, there are signs of a g storm.

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IN METHODIST STRONGHOLD, A DIALOGUE ON GAY RIGHTS

          By Pl Goldfger, MD,  Edor @Blogfger  (April, 2015 ).  Update 2020 and repost 2021. On January 13, 2013, about 300,000 marchers nverged on Paris to oppose the ia of legalizg gay marriage France. Earlier that week, the Epispal Dce of the Washgton, D.C. area announced that gay… * gay marriage ocean grove nj *

Ocean Grove has a substantial gay populatn, and many of them live full time the Grove.

Except for a few notable clash wh the Camp Meetg Associatn, most gays town like livg here.

I recently asked a gay Grover what the difference is between the gays the Grove and those who live Asbury Park. The OG gay muny and Ocean Grove received some natnal publicy relatn to the Paviln ntroversy 2007. But recent years, tensns have flared as gay rints and vatners have flocked to Ocean Grove, which is next door to Asbury Park, a cy that has evolved to a thrivg gay travel statn.

OCEAN GROVE AND WHY NO RELIG CASE FOR GAY MARRIAGE

By Pl Goldfger,  Edor @Blogfger September 28, 2013:       Two days ago, a New Jersey Superr Court judge led that the ban on gay marriage the Garn State vlated the rights of same sex upl and she orred that the State of New Jersey mt allow same sex marriage by October 21.… * gay marriage ocean grove nj *

Harriet Bernste, 70, a retired schoolteacher and longtime Ocean Grove rint, has been at the center of a ntug bate between the muny’s Christian learship and s expandg gay populatn. ” The latt skirmish epted last weekend when Kirk Cameron, a former s actor who is now a nservative Christian activist, gave a lecture here on strengtheng marriag, over the objectn of gay groups who had wanted the town’s learship to ncel the event.

Cameron me unr fire this year by gay-rights groups after an terview wh Piers Man on CNN which he scribed homosexualy as “unnatural” and “stctive.

Cameron’s talk generated anger, another episo last weekend showed that those on different sis of the issue of gay rights were tryg to reach some Mr. Paster among members of the Camp Meetg Associatn and several gay-rights advot.

GAYS A METHODIST TOWN? NO PROBLEM (UNTIL NOW)

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Whiln said of Ocean Grove’s gay muny. Reprentative Frank Pallone, a Democrat and a supporter of gay rights, sat near Mr.

” Steven Goldste, the founr of Garn State Equaly, a gay-rights group, spoke of a ep love for the Methodist Church. A member of the Christian learship took a seat next to Corey Bernste, a gay 17-year-old om Millburn, N. ” As for the Camp Meetg Associatn, he said he believed many members were welg to gays and lbians as well, “but not all of them, obvly.

GROUP LOS TAX BREAK OVER GAY UNN ISSUE

ANDREW MILLS/THE STAR-LEDGERRyan Kelly, an nkeeper at the Ocean Plaza Bed & Breakfast Ocean Grove, displays a blue solidary flag that signifi support for marriage equaly for gay upl. Today, I would like to suggt that a recent article... * gay marriage ocean grove nj *

” A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: In Methodist Stronghold, a Dialogue on Gay Rights. On January 13, 2013, about 300, 000 marchers nverged on Paris to oppose the ia of legalizg gay marriage France. Area announced that gay marriage ceremoni will be held the Natnal Cathedral, the 6th largt the world.

In 2013, the US Supreme Court led favor of gay marriage two s, the first such s sce they last looked at 10 years before.

So far, 37 stat and the District of Columbia allow gays and lbians to marry cludg New Jersey which joed the group on October 21, 2013.

GAY RIGHTS, RELIG LIBERTI: A THREE-ACT STORY

A boardwalk paviln Ocean Grove, N.J., has lost s tax-exempt stat as the Methodist anizatn that owns battl wh state officials over gay civil unn ceremoni. * gay marriage ocean grove nj *

The issue has been ntent those stat where, so far, gay marriage has not been legalized, although there are civil unn laws some stat. Now, about 75% of the populatn liv plac where gay marriage is legal. Gay marriage also is a e for bate by many religns the US and around the world.

The Epispal church has had a wrenchg ntroversy about gay marriage, and their lg, which allows such ceremoni stat where is legal, has ed members and parish to leave the church. Many Fortune 500 rporatns have given support to the gay marriage movement. Now over 50% of cizens polled across the untry support gay marriage.

GAYS WELE, IF THEY KNOW THEIR PLACE

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It rulted the formatn of a gay rights anizatn the Grove (Ocean Grove Uned. But the brouhaha the Grove was not about civil unns per se, nor did have anythg to do wh gay marriage. It wasn’t even about the tes of the Methodist Church to ban gay unns and marriag their church.

The Boardwalk Paviln was judged to be a public place, so turng the gay uple away on relig grounds was led discrimatory by the State. And this event Ocean Grove beme part of the fabric of the gay rights movement New Jersey. Some wonred whether the Grove would get a reputatn as beg an anti-gay town and if our town would bee a lighteng rod for gay issu which might ept wh any lol provotn such as the 2013 refal of the Asbury Park Council to support the OG FEMA appeal.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS OCEAN GROVE

Here's an ia: Maybe New Jersey should stop subsidizg anti-gay bigotry Ocean Grove. It may seem odd, but that is what's gog on today. A Methodist group that received a big tax break through the Green Acr program after... * gay marriage ocean grove nj *

In 2012, when Kirk Cameron me to speak about marriage the Great Audorium, there was a monstratn volvg perhaps 200 people who protted his appearance bee of anti-gay rhetoric which supposedly had exprsed elsewhere. The event rulted a great al of publicy, even though no actual anti-gay rhetoric on his part occurred then the Grove. Ocean Grove is a unique village, not only bee of the signifint prence of a relig-based group that follows the tes of the Methodist Church, but also bee of a relatively large gay muny livg here.

SIX MONTHS OF GAY MARRIAGE NJ YIELDS NEARLY 3,000 WEDDGS

By Pl Goldfger,  Edor @Blogfger September 28, 2013:       Two days ago, a New Jersey Superr Court judge led that the ban on gay marriage the Garn State vlated the rights of same sex upl and she orred that the State of New Jersey mt allow same sex marriage by October 21.… * gay marriage ocean grove nj *

They have been stgglg for over 50 years wh ncerns surroundg the issu of marriage equaly and gay clergy.

September 28, 2013: Two days ago, a New Jersey Superr Court judge led that the ban on gay marriage the Garn State vlated the rights of same sex upl and she orred that the State of New Jersey mt allow same sex marriage by October 21.

THE GAY MORALIST: GATHERG STORM

Jt to brg you up to date and backtrack a b: The New Jersey Legislature had passed a gay marriage act Febary 2012, but the Governor vetoed , and the Democratic-domated State Legislature did not have the vot to overri. The Court let stand existg gay marriage state laws, but the lg did not provi feral benefs to those who have civil unns, which we have New Jersey. Herb Bachmann, a cizen of the Grove, rose to ask Assemblywoman Christe Casagran (R) about gay marriage New Jersey.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY MARRIAGE OCEAN GROVE NJ

Six months of gay marriage NJ yields nearly 3,000 weddgs .

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