The Prbyterian Church (USA) officially regnized gay marriage this week.
Contents:
- ON GAY MARRIAGE IN CHURCH, STANC VARY AMONG RELIGNS, CLERGY, MEMBERS
- HOW SHOULD THE CHURCH LOVE A GAY COUPLE? (PART 1)
- HOW SHOULD THE CHURCH LOVE A GAY COUPLE? (PART 2)
- POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS
- MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
- ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
- 3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
ON GAY MARRIAGE IN CHURCH, STANC VARY AMONG RELIGNS, CLERGY, MEMBERS
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HOW SHOULD THE CHURCH LOVE A GAY COUPLE? (PART 1)
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HOW SHOULD THE CHURCH LOVE A GAY COUPLE? (PART 2)
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POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS
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MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
"We have several people our church who practice a homosexual liftyle. • They watch their language and won't put up wh people monizg or homophobic slurs. Though the Supreme Court has clared the Defense of Marriage Act unnstutnal and validated California's gay marriage ban, marriage remas a plited and ntted issue among relig nomatns.
ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
(The urt lg on California's Proposn 8 effectively will allow gay marriage the state, but do not change same-sex marriage laws or bans other stat). Yet, while surveys have shown that people who are agast gay marriage most equently pot to relig views to expla their objectns, the number of nomatns that perform same-sex marriage and blsg ceremoni is growg. In 2004, after Massachetts legalized gay marriage but before the ph for same-sex marriage legalizatn picked up steam natnally, the church voted to support state efforts to legalize civil unns.
3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
The Renstctnist movement also allows gay marriag.
The Orthodox Unn, the major Orthodox Jewish body the Uned Stat, has opposed gay marriage. Most mosqu do not allow same-sex marriag, and a high-rankg cleric at Egypt's Al-Azhar Universy, one of Islam's most rpected schools, recently clared gay marriage to be agast the fah.