'Welg, but not affirmg': beg gay and Christian

Contents:

• 3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
• WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
• RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ENDS TI WH PROTTANTS OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• RIFT OVER GAY RIGHTS AS UNED METHODISTS U.S. HAVE BEE MORE ACCEPTG OF HOMOSEXUALY
• RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH RAIS FEARS OVER PRO-GAY PROTTANT CHURCH

3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE

That trac s theologil foundatn to Luther himself, nsecrated an openly gay bishop 2013 and allows clergy to perform same-sex marriag. They are the us of the prophetic work beg done by fah-based LGBTQ anizatns and their alli, cludg DignyUSA, the Reformatn Project, Gay Christian Network, Soulforce, the Metropolil Communy Church and and HRC's Relign and Fah Program. It has weled gay people sce 1976, when s General Conventn cid that “homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the Church.

The Supreme Court lg earlier this year legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi has ntued to raise qutns about how the cisn will affect relig groups – pecially those that rema opposed to allowg gay and lbian upl to wed.

) (not to be nfed wh the Prbyterian Church Ameri, which oppos same-sex marriage) and the Epispal Church have wrtled wh the issue for years, often as part of a larger bate on the role of gays and lbians the church.

WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

Frank Schaefer, a Methodist pastor who had performed a same-sex marriage ceremony for his gay son. Schaefer’s se has spl the church, wh some clergy floutg the l and marryg same-sex upl and other, more nservative members threateng to leave if the church do not hold to s current l prohibg gay marriage.

Overall, a solid majory of whe male Prottants (62%) now favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, wh jt 33% opposed, acrdg to a 2015 Pew Rearch Center survey.

A siar share (63%) say there is “no nflict” between their relig beliefs and homosexualy.

RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ENDS TI WH PROTTANTS OVER GAY MARRIAGE

Epispal Church 2003 after nsecrated an openly gay bishop, and wh Swen's Lutheran Church after sanctned ceremoni for civil unns 2005. The Rsian Orthodox Church has been a leadg voice of support for what Kreml crics ll the Rsian ernment's systematic crackdown on lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people's rights recent years.

Among male Prottants, acceptance of homosexualy stands at 56%, higher than among the total U.

However, the gree of acceptance of homosexualy vari greatly among dividual nomatns of Prottant Christiany.

RIFT OVER GAY RIGHTS AS UNED METHODISTS U.S. HAVE BEE MORE ACCEPTG OF HOMOSEXUALY

At the other end of the spectm are Amerin Baptists and members of historilly black Prottant church, where about four--ten accept homosexualy. The lowt level of acceptance is found among evangelil Prottants; only a quarter say homosexualy should be accepted. The Church of Swen accepts homosexual marriage sce 2009, and appoted the first openly lbian bishop Stockholm that same year.

Sce 2015, civil unns of homosexuals are approved, and is expected that 2022 the Church of Stland will adopt marriage r for same-sex partners. Always seen as more liberal than other Prottant groups, started celebratg relig gay marriag 2016. A first gay bishop married his partner 2018, and 2019 the church allowed all dc to perform same-sex marriag.

RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH RAIS FEARS OVER PRO-GAY PROTTANT CHURCH

They celebrate gay marriag and they are expected to vote a ban on any therapy or pastoral acpaniment that impli the modifitn of a person’s attractn to the same sex. In 2006, the ECUSA officially said y to gay marriage, and the year after, around 240 theologilly nservative muni left the Church to form the Anglin Church of North Ameri (which now has around 1, 000 church the US and Canada). In summer of 2009, the ELCA accepted the ordatn of practicg gay and lbian pastors, as well as the blsg of homosexual unns.

In 2012, approved the ordatn of homosexual prits and 2014 the PCUSA refed marriage as a unn of “two people” (stead of “a man and a woman”). France's Prottant church has celebrated s first weddg of same-sex pastors, thori said Monday, six years after gay clergy first won the right to marry. "It remas a touchy subject, " he told general, Prottant doctre do not nsir marriage to be a sacrament, but the church n give s blsg civil ceremoni to both heterosexual and homosexual upl.

After years of bate, Uned Methodist Church lears voted this week to reaffirm the nomatn’s opposn to same-sex marriag and openly gay clergy. The velopments e at a time when many Uned Methodists the Uned Stat have a more acceptg view toward homosexualy. Relig Landspe Study, 60% of Uned Methodists said homosexualy should be accepted by society – a clear majory, and a substantial crease om 2007, when 51% said this.